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Andrew rounded the stand of small knobby pines and comes face to face
with two men dressed in blue holding cocked pistols aimed at him. The year
is 1865 and General Sherman's army has marched into North Carolina and
into eleven year old Andrew's life. The soldiers slaughter his hogs and
take his wounded father prisoner.
There are no make-believe games of war with his friends and dreams of
glory. Andrew experiences the terrible injustice of war, greed and love of
family. His rescue attempt fails and the same ruthless soldiers that
burned his grandfather's home capture him. Escape is impossible and
execution for spying is all but certain. His greatest regret is not
freeing his father.
No boy should endure the terrible agony of war. Yet, man will wage war
against man and boys will experience all the inhumanity of war. Andrew's
War is an action packed story of courage.
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Killing a thousand snakes was the easy part. Staying alive was the hard
part.
Noah had his flood and Josh Bledsoe had his. But Noah had an ark and all
Josh had was a door. Instead of forty days and nights Josh was out there
four days and three nights without a knife, hatchet or anything but his
dog. He landed in an abandoned house and fought and killed at least a
thousand snakes.
Snakes were bad enough but he had to contend with his fears and being
alone. His dad had told him the thinking man was a live man and when you
stop thinking you die. On more than one occasion during those four days he
faced death square in the eye and didn’t blink.
Floods are in the news all across the country. Who can forget all those
video clips of New Orleans? What if you are eleven years old and you are
washed away by the biggest flood in a century?
The setting for THE SNAKE KILLER is coastal eastern North Carolina and the
hurricane was named Floyd in 1999. The flood was called the millennial
flood and covered thousands of square miles. Over seventy people lost
their lives.
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The task is simple. “Deliver the prize to the Admiral in Antigua.” But
nothing’s simple with a leaking ship and inexperienced second lieutenant
Donlan as captain. Aboard is a young boy with no memory—someone the French
desperately want to capture. Donland’s first command may well be his only
command as he fights off traitors, outwits spies and bedevils a French sea
captain sworn to vengeance. He doesn’t even have enough men to load a
broadside. Donland is not only inexperienced in command, but love as well.
When he encounters a beautiful woman on a captured sloop, he’s presented
with the most difficult choice of all—between command and the woman he
loves.THE TREACHEROUS PRIZE is a sea tale of intrigue, friendship and
love, set in the Caribbean Sea during the American Revolution. In the
tradition of CS Forester’s HORNBLOWER. Genre: Action Adventure
/ Historical Fiction
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