| As Best We Could Contributor(s): McLain, Jean Marie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0971856222 ISBN-13: 9780971856226 Publisher: 1st World Library Incorporated OUR PRICE: $24.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2003 Annotation: The author brings the years of the Civil War to life as readers have never experienced them before. Using letters sent between soldiers fighting in the war and loved ones waiting at home, McLain describes their thoughts and feelings as they live through the most horrendous of American wars. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6" W x 9" (1.54 lbs) 480 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The story begins... Just before Christmas, 1861, James "Jamie" McNeil, a young recruit in Captain Buckham's Sharpshooter Company at Delhi, New York, writes a letter of apology to pretty Mary Edwards. Mary had tumbled off her horse, and Jamie hopes she will forgive him for causing the accident. Mary, a spirited young woman from a farm near Meredith Square, replies pertly that she cannot accept his apology for, she admits, the mishap was entirely the fault of her own Willful Nature. She had been scandalously riding astride, and in scrambling to adjust herself properly sidesaddle, had lost her balance and fallen. "As Grandmother would say, I am a foolish girl who got what was coming to me," she tells him. Jamie gallantly replies that she should not believe she deserved what she got, and that her fall was really very graceful. You will fall in love with Mary and Jamie as they slowly discover each other and a love that will last a lifetime. |