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Summary: In 1924, the derailment of a passing train buries 16-year-old Emma Palmisano's house in coal. Caleb, the railroad man who rescues Emma, marries her a week later and gifts her with 47 acres of Virginia farmland. Successive generations of Emma and Caleb's family endure and grow despite poverty and hardship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2013
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Summary: The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins. There, Cassius Howard, a skilled carpenter and slave, risks everything--punishment, sale to a cotton plantation, even his life--to learn the truth concerning the murder of Emoline, a freed black woman, a woman who secretly taught him to read and once saved his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2008