Ballad novels
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If ever I return, pretty Peggy-O , Ballad novels volume 1
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The hangman's beautiful daughter , Ballad novels volume 2
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She walks these hills , Ballad novels volume 3
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Ballad novels volume 4
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English
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With a career spanning decades, and superlatives from reviewers nationwide-whose bestselling novels have been named Notable Books by the New York Times and the LA Times-this is one of Sharyn McCrumb's most cherished novels.
The stage is set for family drama when Randall Stargill lies dying on his southern Appalachian farm, and his four sons come home to build him a coffin made from the special cache of rosewood he has saved for this purpose. Meanwhile,...
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Ballad novels volume 5
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The New York Times Bestseller
Set in the Appalachian wilderness and blending legends and folklore with high suspense, this stellar novel, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, is considered one of McCrumb's crowning achievements.
In 1833 Frankie Silver was an eighteen-year-old girl convicted of murder in Burke County, North Carolina. Through a detailed investigation, the local sheriff, and soon all the townsfolk, discover reason to question her guilt---but...
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Ghost riders , Ballad novels volume 7
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Ballad novels volume 8
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In 1935, a beautiful young schoolteacher is accused of murdering her coal-miner father in a Virginia mountain community.
National journalists descend on Wise County, intent upon exonerating the defendant, and on stereotyping the mountain community to satisfy their Depression-era readers.
But local cub reporter Carl Jennings writes what he sees: an ordinary town and a defendant who is probably guilty.
The novel resonates with the present: an economic...
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Wheeler Pub./Gale Cengage Learning
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2012, c2011
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English
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Setting out to do a fictional retelling of the 1865 love-triangle murder that became national news, author Sharon McCrumb uncovers a missing piece of the story that changes everything--bringing belated justice to an innocent man.
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Ballad novels volume 10
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Thomas Dunne Books
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2013.
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English
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"John Sevier had not taken much interest in the American Revolution, he was too busy fighting Indians in the Carolinas and taming the wilderness. But when an arrogant British officer threatened his settlement--promising to burn the farms and kill families--the war became personal. That arrogant officer is Patrick Ferguson of the British Army--who is both charmingly antagonistic and surprisingly endearing. Inventor of the Ferguson rifle, and the devoted...
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Prayers the devil answers , Ballad novels volume 11
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Nora Bonesteel's Christmas past: a Ballad novella
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