Friendship For Today
Patricia C. McKissack
In 1954, when desegregation comes to Kirkland, Missouri, ten-year-old Rosemary faces many changes and challenges at school and at home as her parents separate
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The Civil War short stories of Ambrose Bierce [25 stories]
by compiled with a foreword by Ernest Jerome Hopkins (1988)
About this book
Contains: One of the missing -- A baffled ambuscade -- The affair at Coulter's Notch -- A son of the gods -- One kind of officer -- A tough tussle -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Chickamauga -- The coup de grâce -- One officer, one man -- The story of a conscience -- Parker Adderson, philosopher -- An affair of outposts -- Jupiter Doke, brigadier-general -- A horseman in the sky -- The mocking-bird -- George Thurston -- Killed at Resaca -- Three and one are one -- Two military executions -- The major's tale -- A resumed identity -- A man with two lives -- The other lodgers -- A bivouac of the dead
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreThe Civil War short stories of Ambrose Bierce [25 stories] Lead Character
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