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A sprawling novel focuses on the burgeoning revolution in 19th-century Texas. …a substantial piece of thoughtful historical fiction. -Kirkus Reviews________________________In the Texas Revolution of 1836, fighters and those fleeing after the Alamo and Goliad brace for a last clash. Born in Mexico's San Antonio, Captain Juan Seguin risks all in championing the break-away republic. Private James Trezevant, one of few Georgia Battalion survivors,...

As the fight for Texas Independence heats up in the fall of 1835, young volunteers as far away as Macon, Georgia enlist to test their mettle in the brewing struggle. Three women traveling alongside the battalion have hidden reasons for abandoning home. They have never heard of the remote settlement Waterloo-destined to be renamed Austin. None starting out on the 1, 000 mile trek envision a treacherous passage into unrelenting frontier. No one ...

With the sprawling celebration of Walt Whitman and the meditative concentration of Mary Oliver, Accidental Joy is more than a poetic monologue-it is a personal epic. It is private prayer and public performance in one. Sitting down to read it feels like you're taking in a good bottle of wine: the flavors, highlights, and notes are diverse and complex, but they nonetheless create a unified flavor, a cohesive and balanced whole. -Allyson Whipple,...

A sweeping tale of 19th-century Texas... Texas history on a broad, complex scale -Kirkus ReviewsWhen young Shelby Whitmire spies a flatboat coming down the Mississippi to Natchez, he doesn't know that two aboard are on the run to Mexico's Texas territory. How could the motherless boy foresee his adult years unfolding in that wilderness? After fiery speeches in 1835 to convince others to help Texas win independence, it is friendship and heartbr...