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  Journey of a Cotton Blossom

  J. C. Villegas

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  A historical novel containing the interwoven stories of a father and son, each wrestling with his identity at a different time in a world full of hatred. Born amid the bigotry of the Deep South, mixed-race Joseph is a slave in all but name. Separated from his mother at birth, he yearns to run away from his loveless home and find her. It’s a journey that will take him from plantation to plantation and hardship to hardship, yielding joy, sorrow, and love along the way. Years later, Joseph’s son, Isaiah, faces his own journey: coming to terms with his homosexuality. But society is still slow to accept change, and Isaiah fears rejection from even those closest to his heart. From 1940s Mississippi to the civil rights era of the ’60s and the push for LGBT equality, the story follows three generations of a family fighting for liberation. J. C. Villegas paints an eye-opening story that will inspire readers to open their hearts to love. Though her characters face different types of discrimination, they all draw strength from love and from their faith in God. Can Joseph find the mother he has never met? Can Isaiah survive injustice and adversity? And can they each learn to love themselves in the face of a world that challenges their right to exist?“This Southern tale is filled with charm and is a beautiful journey . . . The reader constantly feels a connection to the main characters, who are fighting not only for their lives but, just as importantly, their dignity.” —Robin McGhee, co-founder and former co-director of GetEQUAL“A riveting tale of man’s struggle with identity and survival.” —PopSugar

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  The Border Men

  Cameron Judd

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  The author of The Overmountain Men and The Canebrake Men continues his Tennessee Frontier Trilogy as the American Revolution rages in the wilderness. Two years after the colonies declare their independence, the American and British armies fight a seemingly endless series of bloody battles in the east. But on the Tennessee frontier, the war is fought by far fewer rules of engagement. In the wilderness, those who strike silent and swift win the day, every tree or rocky hill might hide an enemy waiting with bullet and blade, and a painless death is a rare gift. It is in this chaotic land that frontiersman Joshua Colter leads the newly formed Patriot Rangers militia against both the hated British and their Cherokee and Chickamauga allies. The war has already cost all sides a great deal in blood and betrayal. But for Joshua, the war is about to bring the pain of his own past into the conflict as old enemies return to exact their revenge . . .

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  The Story of Beautiful Girl

  Rachel Simon

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  THE STORY OF BEAUTIFUL GIRL gets right under the skin and into the heart with the story of Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability that hinders her ability to speak, and Homan, an African American deaf man with only his home sign language to guide him.  Both were institutionalized in the mid-twentieth century, when people with disabilities were routinely shut off from society and left to languish without attention, forgotten.One night, Lynnie and her sweetheart, Homan, escape.  They find refuge in the farmhouse of the widow Martha, a retired schoolteacher.  But the couple is not alone; Lynnie has just borne a child.  The authories catch up to them; Homan escapes into the darkness and Lynnie is caught.  But just before she is gruffly taken back to The School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, she utters two words to Martha: "Hide her."  And so begins the tale of three lives desperate to connect, yet kept apart by seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

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  The Tudor Heritage

  Lynda M. Andrews

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  From “an outstanding storyteller,” a historical novel inspired by the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth I (Woman’s Weekly).It is 1559, and Elizabeth Tudor has just succeeded to the throne of England. Beside her are the family who will share the momentous triumphs and setbacks of her reign: the Allgraves. As the Spanish Armada descends upon the country and Mary Stuart lays claim to the English crown, together Elizabeth and the Allgraves will create the Tudor Heritage—a nation whose power was to be feared and respected for centuries to come. Will the queen’s determination not to marry sabotage her family’s monarchical legacy? And will the Allgraves survive the perilous trials of the Tudor Court? A tale of kinship, loyalty, heroism and reward. Told with Lynda Andrews’ trademark vibrant storytelling panache, The Tudor Heritage will appeal to readers of Phillipa Gregory, Emily Purdy and Anne O’Brien.

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  In Thrall to the Enemy Commander

  Greta Gilbert

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  “Singing with atmosphere and with scholarship . . . gives us an enigmatic heroine who fascinates at every turn, and immerses us fully in a world long-gone.” —Romantic Intentions Quarterly 
   
  Cleopatra’s slave girl—and an enemy Roman soldier . . . 
   
  Egyptian slave Wen-Nefer is wary of all men. But she can’t help but be captivated by handsome Titus, adviser to Julius Caesar, even though he is commanding and intolerant of bold women like her. Their affair is as all-consuming as it is forbidden. But is he a man who will go to any lengths to love her despite their boundaries . . . or a sworn enemy she must never trust? 
   
  “The engaging characters, impossible situation, and the power exchange between master and slave will have readers up past their bedtime.” —RT Book Reviews

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  Preacher and The Mountain Caesar

  William W. Johnstone

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  One Man And . . .  
  No one remembered when he'd come to the mountains-it seemed that Preacher had always been there. He'd seen a great deal in the unmapped mountains and forests of the grand North American frontier. In fact, he'd just told a friend that he wasn't surprosed by anything anymore. But Preacher hadn't seen Nova Roma yet . . . 
   . . . A Deadly Dream of Glory 
  Suddenly, Preacher is faced with the strangest, most dangerous army the High Lonesome has ever seen. It's leader is a blood-mad fanatic right out of the ancient history books. All Preacher's got on his side are his brother mountain men: tough as hardtack good old boys like Philadelphia Braddock and Frenchie Dupree; the Arapaho warrior Bold Pony; and his surefire Walker Colt . . .

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