Annie, Between the StatesHarper Collins, 2004 - 496페이지 The civil war has broken out, and Annie Sinclair's Virginia home, Hickory Heights, is right in the line of battle. Caught up in the rising conflict, Annie and her mother tend to wounded soldiers while Annie's older brother, Laurence, enlists in the Confederate cavalry under Jeb Stuart. Even Annie's rambunctious baby brother, Jamie, joins John Mosby, the notorious "Gray Ghost." Faced with invading armies, Annie is compelled into a riskier role to protect her family and farm. She conceals Confederate soldiers and warns Southern commanders of Union traps, and the flamboyant Jeb Stuart dubs her "Lady Liberty." Annie's loyalty is clear until a wounded Union officer is dragged onto her porch. Saved from a bullet by a volume of Keats' poetry he keeps in his pocket, Thomas Walker startles Annie with his love of verse. After several chance encounters, Annie is surprised by her growing interest in the dark-eyed Northerner as they connect through a shared passion for poetry. As the war rages on, Annie begins to question some of the values driving Virginia's involvement. Then tragedy befalls Hickory Heights, and Annie becomes the subject of a shocking accusation. She must confront the largest quandary of all: choosing her own course. L. M. Elliott crafts a stirring novel that carries readers from the Manassas battlefield to fancy-dress balls to the burning of the Shenandoah Valley while capturing the tenacious spirit of a young heroine facing an extraordinary, complex time in American history. |
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... thought the noise was way - off thunder , a squall line gathering itself up against the Bull Run Mountains . She'd prayed for rain . The cornfields and hay fields needed it badly . But her naïve thought lasted only a few minutes . There ...
... thought of her brother , Laurence , good , kind Laurence who'd taken his two best thoroughbreds and joined Jeb Stuart's 1st Virginia Cavalry . Would Laurence be in the fight ? What would she and her mother do if Laurence were hurt or ...
... thought of such things . She was always taking care of everybody else but herself . This time , though , she'd dragged Annie into her dangerous do- gooding . It was selfish , is what it was , Annie fumed . She looked over to her mother ...
... thought . . . I thought maybe he'd given up on me ... left me , you know , to ... to ... " “ Hush , now , son . It's really just a deep scrape . Look here . " She held up a thick book that had fallen out of his jacket . The volume was ...
... thought of home and the wealth of stored food there , and couldn't help but feel a little bit superior and sorry for her aunt and her cousins . They had to work so hard to scratch out a living . The soil around Manassas was poor and ...