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Jeremy Simms watches from the porch of the general store as the weekly bus from Jackson comes through his town. His neighbor Stacey Logan and Stacey's brothers and sister are there to see their grandmother off on a trip. Jeremy's friend Josias Williams is taking the bus to his new job. But Josias and the Logans are black, and in Mississippi in the 1930s, black people can't ride the bus if that means there won't be enough room for white people to ride....
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"Heralded for its powerful depiction of life in the American South during the Great Depression, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry won the 1977 Newberry Medal and went on to become a pillar of American children's literature. Its message of individual dignity and regard for humanity has made it a touchstone for readers of all ages. This anniversary edition celebrates the Logans' enduring legacy and brings their timeless story to a new generation." --
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"You men got a choice. Pull leather and die, or drop your guns. Makes no never mind to me."
Callum Logan is a man of quick decision and execution. His fast gun has saved him on more than one occasion. Though hardened by the horrors of the Civil War, he gives each man a chance, unless they prove it's undeserved.
Now, on his way to begin a new life in the Colorado West, Callum is eager to put the killing behind him. But while rescuing a family from...
6) Logan's Word
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As Lieutenant Rory Nance lay dying after the battle of Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah Valley, Captain Josh Logan gave his word to his best friend.
Now, two years later, deep in the Comancheria, Josh Logan rides to accomplish his dying friend's request. As he rides through the rolling West Texas hills, blood-thirsty Comanches could wait in the next ravine or around the next hill. Yet, he is determined to fulfill his promise.
His message delivered,...
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"You keep turning that shotgun toward me, Pickering, and your boys'll be hauling your fat carcass to the cemetery."
Callum Logan faces a challenge along a trail he has traveled before. But this time, he is accompanied by precious cargo.
Ride the Cherokee Trail with Callum, three years after a bloody war that divided state against state, town against town, and brother against brother, as he attempts to guide his family from their ravaged horse farm...
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A Civil War soldier survives his battlefield wounds ... but a final head shot erases his memory and leaves him comatose. After surviving the bloodiest war in US history, will it be peacetime that finally kills him?
Henry Remington awakes from a six-month coma with a Medal of Honor pinned to his pillow, but no recollection of how he got there. When two fellow soldiers insist he saved them and want to repay the favor, Hank accepts their offer of a job...
9) The land
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After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.
10) Melody
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Growing up in a hardscrabble West Virginia mining town, Melody Logan often wished that her flighty, movie-star-gorgeous mother, Haille, wasn't so unhappy. But in the warmth of her wonderful father's unwavering love, Melody always felt safe and secure - until a dreadful mining accident tore her from her family's moorings. Melody was still devastated by her father's death when she came home from school to find her mother gaily packing suitcases. Soon...
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"Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated...
14) Heart song
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When Melody Logan's beloved stepfather died, and her mother left her with his relatives on Cape Cod, Melody felt marooned. She discovered that the wealthy, tight-lipped Logans harbored dark secrets - even about Melody's own twisted history - and no one but their good-hearted son, Cary, would breathe a word about it. Then her mother died in a car accident in California, and Melody was suddenly as alone as a solitary gull, with only the wild Atlantic...
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