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  • Finding Plimouth
    Tecla Emerson
    Follow the trials and travails of John and many of America’s early settlers as they cross the ocean in a rickety and barely seaworthy ship - The Mayflower. These separatists and saints, or Pilgrims as they were later called, struggled to create a new life in a strange and sometimes hostile land. Only half would make it through that first devastating New England winter. But more...
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    9,26 €

  • The Oregon Trail
    Tecla Emerson
    Maddie knew the trip wouldn’t be easy. Her mother and older brother were no longer with them and Hannah, her little sister, was hers alone to care for. And Hannah was mute. Mute for reasons no one knew.It would take months to arrive at their destination. Months that would include accidents, floods, Indian attacks and disease. The losses along the trail were both huge and unexpe...
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    7,68 €

  • Jennie Wade
    Tecla Emerson
    It had been foolish to stay but now there was no choice. It was anyone’s guess what the outcome would be. Nothing was as it should be. Oddly, the Confederate troops were pouring in from the north and Union troops were marching in from the south. They arrived in droves. The town was not prepared for what happened during the early days of the summer, 1863.Jennie, a young local gi...
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    7,86 €

  • Panama
    Tecla Emerson
    It was the mid-1800s. The small family of Irish immigrants was left penniless after the devastation of the unexpected storm.Finn’s dad and favored older brother set out for the new state of California to rebuild their fortune. They did not return.Months later a letter arrived instructing the family to come at once. They could not. Finn would have to go - alone - across an entir...
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    8,96 €

  • Antietam
    Tecla Emerson
    Emily at 15 is bored and annoyed with just about everything and everybody. Tired of her chores and irritated by the endless care of three younger sisters, she would like to have a life of her own. Her parents are absent; her Father is off fighting a war she doesn’t understand and her Mother has left for Pennsylvania. As the eldest of the four sisters, she must take responsibili...
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    7,65 €

  • Mists of the Blue Ridge
    Tecla Emerson
    Olivia lived a quiet and protected life tucked away on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was far from the great war that had been raging between the North and the South. She had little interest in the who and the why of it all, and wasn’t even sure where her sympathies lay. Then, without warning, the conflict surrounded her. At 16, she was ill prepared for the responsibili...
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    8,27 €

  • Gift of the Winds
    Tecla Emerson
    It was a lonely lighthouse tucked far out on a Peninsula. Its function was to protect the ships at sea from the treacherous shoals of coastal Maine. Jacob and Sarah had done their job well all these years: keeping the lamp lit and sounding the warning horn whenever necessary. And now, unable to help, they watched as the violence of a late winter storm took out its fury on a hel...
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    7,50 €

  • Shadows in the Fog
    Tecla Emerson
    Molly lived on an island far away from the mainland. She was an orphan and there was no one to care for her. Sent to live in a house filled with boys she was pressed into the role of cook and caretaker. Her life became that of a servant. When an unfortunate incident took place that threatened to scar her forever, she was sent to live with an angered and bitter veteran of the Ci...
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    7,75 €

  • Mulberry Cove
    Tecla Emerson
     Amelia had been safely tucked away at a quiet and comfortable boarding school in England. It had been her home for years. A war was raging in America. A war she knew nothing about. Her Uncle had sent for her. She was to come to his plantation at once. It was in a remote area of the south, in the heart of slave country. They raised cotton she was told.Amelia risks a dangerous j...
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    8,46 €

  • Indentured Servant
    Tecla Emerson
    'My being for ever banished from your sight?' Who was this '...undutiful and Disobedient Child' who in 1756 penned a letter to her father in England? What had she done to so offend him? Why, as a well educated young girl, had she become an indentured servant? Why was she alone? In her letter, she pleads with her father to forgive her and to at least send her a bit of clothing. ...
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    7,44 €

  • Hidden in the Early Light
    Tecla Emerson
    An extraordinary tale of bravery, heartache, and endurance during an impossible time. Within the pages of this well researched young adult novel is a story of survival that is woven together with both candor and empathy. Prolific novelist, Tecla Emerson has created yet another unforgettable and beautifully written historical tale.Set in the mid-1800s - a famine threatens to wip...
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    8,15 €