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Cold Mountain
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished America in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved three years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learn to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic American Odyssey: hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.
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Thirteen Moons
From one of the most acclaimed writers of our time comes THIRTEEN MOONS, a brilliant novel that is at once an exciting story of adventure, a moving story of passionate love, and a portrait of America during the nineteenth century, a time of savage violence, natural beauty, and epic change. Will Cooper's search for identity and home hegins at thte age of twelve, when he is given a horse, a key and a map, and sent to the edge of the Cherokee Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. With a Cherokee chief named Bear and the mysterious and beautiful Claire Featherstone, Will finds the passionate connections and the complications of manhood that will forge his character and shape his life. As his fate becomes interwined with destiny of the Cherokee, Will travels to Washington City to fight against the Removal of the Indians from their land and to protect Bear's people, their culture, and way of life.In a voice filled with insight, humor and regret, Will tells of a long life's journey, from the beautiful forests and mountains of the Nation across the South and up and donw the Mississippi River, and on into the twentieth century. THIRTEEN MOONS is a novel of breathtaking power and beauty, by an American master.