Pioneer One (The Last Days Book 2)

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Using the hashtag morepioneerone please share the YouTube link to the pilot episode https: And finally…I want to say thank you. From the bottom of my heart. At the close of the Civil War, weary veteran Malcolm Hopeton returns to his home in western New York State to find his wife and hired man missing and his farm in disrepair. A double murder ensues, the repercussions of which ripple through a community with spiritual roots in the Second Great Awakening.

The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City.

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His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America — the comic book. Drawing on their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapist, the Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family. Jesse James, in at the age of 34, is at the height of his fame and powers as a singularly successful outlaw.

Robert Ford is the skittish younger brother of one of the James gang: Both drawn to him and frightened of him, the nineteen-year-old is uncertain whether he wants to serve James or destroy him or, somehow, become him. In the bitter aftermath of the terrible, bloody Civil War, as a divided nation tries to come together once again, Madge, Sadie, and Hemp, who have all come to Chicago seeking a new life, will be caught up in a desperate, unexpected battle for survival in a community desperate to lay the pain of the past to rest.

But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant historical fiction novel, inspired by a true story. This spellbinding book transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened.

Her new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: On January 15, , the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the s, this historical fiction novel traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world of the other. In a blend of fact and fiction, Tademy tells the story of four generations of her slave-born female ancestors — Elisabeth, Suzette, Philomene, and Emily — following their trajectories from the s to the s. Raised from birth in the orphanage at St. Wilbur Larch, its physician and director, who cares for the troubled mothers who seek his help, either by delivering and taking in their unwanted babies or by performing illegal abortions.

Homer assists in the former, but draws the line at the latter. Larch for an abortion, and everything about the couple beckons Homer to the wide world outside the orphanage. In , Lucas Turner, a barber surgeon, and his sister, Sally, an apothecary, stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven weeks at sea. Bound to each other by blood and necessity, they aim to make a fresh start in the rough and rowdy Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam; soon lust, betrayal, and murder will make them mortal enemies.

On July 5, , scandal breaks in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, when the proprietor of the general store, E. Rucker Blakeslee, elopes with Miss Love Simpson. He is barely three weeks a widower, and she is only half his age and a Yankee to boot. As their marriage inspires a whirlwind of local gossip, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a family scandal. This book is the story of two sisters — one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South — who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence.

The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in , an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. His posting to a desolate and deserted outpost is the springboard for contact with the lords of the southern plains… the Comanche. An orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, vivacious young Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the rough-and-tumble Gold Rush of Set in the late s, in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles, Devil in a Blue Dress follows Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant.

At the turn of the nineteenth century, Frank Leong, a fabulously wealthy shipping industrialist, moves his family from China to the island of Oahu. But something ancient follows the Leongs to Hawaii, haunting them. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. And that is where the unlikely friendship of Doc Holliday and a fearless lawman named Wyatt Earp begins— before the gunfight at the O. Corral links their names forever in American frontier mythology.

The author, Kevin Baker brings to mesmerizing life a vibrant, colorful, thrilling, and dangerous New York City in the earliest years of the twentieth century in an the epic saga of newcomers drawn to the promise of America whose stories of love, revenge, and tragedy shine in the artificial electric dazzle of a wondrous place called Dreamland.

The invasion of white society threatens to change their traditional way of life, and they must choose to fight or assimilate.

The book is a powerful portrait of a fading way of life and culminates with the historic Marias Massacre of This now-classic novel follows two women: In the autumn of , Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella, alone on a bus home to Georgia in the middle of the night—a desperate measure that proves calamitous when the child encounters two drifters and is left for dead on the side of the road. She claims that dozens of bodies are buried in the forest north of 23rd St.

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The image of a brutal killer is slowly revealed and anti-Irish rage infects the city, pulling the reluctant cop into a battle that may cost him everything. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life to by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland to New York harbor. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free.

Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the slavery battleground of the Kansas Territory in Over the ensuing months, Henry—nicknamed Little Onion—conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive and finds himself at the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in The product of their union is white-skinned, blonde Josey, who has never known her mother, who was murdered at her birth. Grace deftly weaves together the stories of Josey and Naomi in a sweeping, intergenerational saga.

Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana. A spellbinding historical fiction novel about a woman who befriends Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and is drawn into their world of intrigue. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Bell decides to run from the failing tobacco farm where she is a slave and nurse to her ailing mistress, the aspiring artist Lu Anne Bell.

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Moving between antebellum Virginia and modern-day New York, this searing, suspenseful and heartbreaking tale of art and history, love and secrets, explores what it means to repair a wrong and asks whether truth is sometimes more important than justice. It is , and the renowned inventor Nikola Tesla occupies a forbidden room on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker, stealing electricity.

Louisa, a young maid at the hotel determined to befriend him, wins his attention through a shared love of pigeons; with her we hear his tragic and tremendous life story unfold. In , the restless world sat on the brink of unimaginable suffering.

But for one woman, the darkness of a new era had already made itself at home. Isadora Duncan would come to be known as the mother of modern dance, but in the spring of she was a grieving mother, after a freak accident in Paris resulted in the drowning death of her two young children.

Johnny Tremain, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in the danger and excitement of Boston, just before the Revolutionary War. In , four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. They call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Author Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters.

One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland.

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After saving a drowning white boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family.

Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities.

Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath takes a case that seems impossible to win.

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