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Author
Series
Designing debutantes volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rafe Wolfford courts Lady Verity as a ruse to discover whether she or anyone else in her party planning company is leaking information to the French, in the third novel of the series following What Happens in the Ballroom.
Author
Series
Gilded age volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her husband's unexpected death bestows his fortune on a male heir, Sylvia tries to marry her daughter off to a wealthy husband to maintain their lifestyle, but is stopped by her mother-in-law, who wants more for her granddaughter.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's spring 1940 and with Europe at war, the community in Darrowby are pulling together more than ever before. With Tristan away serving, Siegfried and James bring in some extra hands to help around the practice: highly efficient bookkeeper Miss Harbottle, and student vet Richard Carmody.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lawrence County was founded on February 6, 1818, the year before Alabama became a state, from lands ceded by the Cherokee and Chickasaw. It is a rural county bordered to the north by the Tennessee River and to the south by the waterfall-rich Bankhead National Forest and filled with small vibrant communities. Moulton, the county seat, features a picturesque square. Courtland, an antebellum town, was once a bustling railroad port. Featured topics include...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cotton was once king throughout Georgia. Reconstruction investors and railroad tycoons saw this potential to open textile mills in the South instead of sending cotton up North. Towns across Central Georgia became a prime spot to locate textile mills because of the access to cotton from local farms, cheap labor, and nearby rivers to power the mills. Textile mills were operated in cities and towns across Central Georgia such as Macon, Columbus, Augusta,...
Author
Publisher
Verse Chorus Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
159 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In rural America at the beginning of the twentieth century, the worldwide postcard craze coincided with the spread of light, cheap photographic equipment. The result was the real-photo psotcard, so-called because the cards were printed in darkrooms rather than on litho presses, usually in editions of a hundred or fewer, the work of amateurs and professionals alike. They were not intended for tourists, but as a medium of communication for the residents...
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 453 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As the wife of a frequently absent slaveholder and public figure, Anna Matilda Page King (1798-1859) was the de facto head of their Sea Island plantation. This volume collects more than 150 letters to her husband, children, parents, and others. Conveying the substance of everyday life as they chronicle King's ongoing struggles to put food on the table, nurse her "family black and white," and keep faith with a disappointing husband, the letters offer...
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 237 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
""Andrew Jackson is both one of the most significant and controversial United States Presidents. This book follows Jackson's life and death through the lives of six women who influenced both his politics and his persona. His mother, Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, introduced him to their Scots-Irish heritage. Jackson's wife, Rachel Donelson Jackson provided emotional support and a stable household throughout her life. Emily Donelson, his niece, was...
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