Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Language
English
Formats
Description
Corrie May Upjohn stands on the levee, watching men unload the riverboats and wishing she could travel far away. A poor preacher's daughter, she is only fourteen, and her life is already laid out for her, marriage in a year or two, and then decades of drudgery. At nearby Ardeith Plantation, Ann Sheramy Larne lives in luxury, but feels just as imprisoned as Corrie May. Their lives could not be more different, but when the horrors of war and Reconstruction...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1912, Eleanor Upjohn sits with her father near the work camp. overseeing the construction of a levee on the Mississippi. In a region shattered by war, levees mean stability, prosperity, and modernity. Kester Larne is the heir to a sprawling Louisiana plantation whose glory days are long behind it. His Southern charm sweeps Eleanor off her feet. Only after they marry does she learn that the plantation is mortgaged to the hilt and she will need every...
3) Deep summer
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Language
English
Formats
Description
For his service in the British army during the French and Indian War, Judith Sheramy's father, is granted a parcel of land in far away Louisiana. As the family ventures down the Mississippi to make a new home in the wilderness, Judith meets Philip Larne, an adventurer who travels in the finest clothes Judith has ever seen. He is a rogue, a killer, and a thief, and the first thing he steals is Judith's heart. Three thousand acres of untamed jungle,...
Interlibrary loan through ILLiad
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Knox County Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your pickup location.
Suggest a purchase
If it is too new for interlibrary loan (6 months), you can place a suggestion with us. Suggest a Purchase