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Tennessee frontier trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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The first in a trilogy set in the untamed colonial American wilderness.
Joshua Colter was born of the wild frontier. As a young boy living with his family on the edges of civilization during the French and Indian War, he witnessed firsthand the bloodshed and brutality men were capable of-from the deception and depredations of whites like his own vile father to the merciless vengeance of the native tribes. Forced by cruel fate to set out on his own,...
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Series
Body farm mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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An investigation of the discovery of a woman's body, mummified after 30 years in a Tennessee cave, brings forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton of the Body Farm into conflict with inhabitants of a remote mountain community. The county's uncooperative sheriff and incompetent deputy threaten to derail the investigation, as do Brockton's personal demons-- lingering guilt over the death of his wife and the fury of a medical examiner whom Brockton opposes...
Author
Series
Tufa novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"No one knows where the Tufa came from, or how they ended up in the mountains of East Tennessee. When the first Europeans came to the Smoky Mountains, the Tufa were already there. Dark-haired and enigmatic, they live quietly in the hills and valleys of Cloud County, their origins lost to history. But there are clues in their music, hidden in the songs they have passed down for generations. ... Private Bronwyn Hyatt, a true daughter of the Tufa, has...
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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When thirty-eight-year-old Nick Sullivan agrees to deliver hot chocolate to the new English professor at the local University, he has no way of knowing a simple good deed will forever change his life. After losing his wife and daughter in an automobile accident three years earlier, Nick believes his wounds are too deep to heal, so he withdraws to the safety of the East Tennessee mountains where he plans to live the rest of his life in solitude. There,...
Author
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses the Wilderness Road, a trail providing a route from Tennessee to Kentucky in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Daniel Boone's role in its development, and life on the trail.
Author
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses colonial America's need for a route to the west, how the Wilderness Road developed, early explorers and settlements along its path, and the impact it had on western expansion.
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