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1) Rhett Butler's people

Author

McCaig, Donald

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print

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The life and times of the enigmatic Rhett Butler unfold. Meet Rhett as a boy, a free spirit who loved the marshes and tidewaters of the Low Country, and learn of the ruthlessness of his father, whose desire for control resulted in unspeakable tragedy.

2) Ruth's journey: the authorized novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind

Author

McCaig, Donald

Series

Thorndike Press large print core

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print

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On the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue, an island consumed by the flames of revolution, a senseless attack leaves only one survivor -- an infant girl who falls into the hands of two French émigrés. They take the beautiful child they call Ruth to the bustling American city of Savannah. What follows is the sweeping tale of Ruth's life as shaped by her strong-willed mistress and other larger-than-life personalities she encounters in the South:...

3) Nop's trials

Author

McCaig, Donald

Pub. Date

[1984]

Language

English

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Donald McCaig's heartwarming and suspenseful novel about a sheepdog's devotion to his master and his job is a modern classic that James Herriot hailed as "poignant, authentic, and beautiful" On Christmas Day, Virginia livestock farmer Lewis Burkholder and Nop, his black-and-white border collie, go out to feed the sheep. But the holiday is shattered when Nop fails to return home. Stolen by two hardened criminals who see in the young stock dog a $300...

4) Nop's Hope

Author

McCaig, Donald

Pub. Date

[1994]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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A grief-stricken young woman takes to the road, joining the sheepdog trial circuit with her faithful border collie in this moving follow-up novel to Donald McCaig's modern classic, Nop's Trials After her husband and daughter are killed in a car accident, Penny Burkeholder leaves her Shenandoah Valley home with her eighteen-month-old border collie, Hope, the only friend she has left in the world. Together, they make their way across the country in...

5) Canaan: a novel

Author

McCaig, Donald

Pub. Date

[2007]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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This sequel to Donald McCaig's award-winning Civil War novel Jacob's Ladder delivers a gripping saga of Reconstruction America from Lee's 1865 surrender at Appomattox to Custer's 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn. McCaig follows the changing fortunes of a diverse ensemble of characters, including Edward, a wartime top sergeant for the 38th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops. Travelling west as a scout, trail cook, cattle driver, and sharpshooter, he marries...