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Based on a true story of the American Revolution. After supper one winter night in 1825, Anna and Benjamin Stone's grandchildren gathered around their rocking chairs. Hannah asked, "Grandma, will you tell us a story from when you and Grandpa were young?" Benjamin chuckled as he folded his newspaper. "Yes, Anna, tell them about the time you saved General Washington's job and made sure we won the American Revolution!" Hannah's eyes got a...

On a spring afternoon in 1834, seven-year-old Annie Perkins and her mama visit Annie's great-grandmother Sarah Fulton for a tea party. Annie learns an exciting story about the most important tea party ever held in Boston, the beginning of the rebellion that created a new nation, and a long-held family secret. Revolutionary Sarah is based on events in the life of Sarah Bradlee Fulton, a patriot of the American Revolution.

Since ancient times, people used mills to process grain, and a mill was often the first structure planned and built in a new community. At the close of the American Revolution, it was believed that every village and town in the United States had access to a water-powered mill.Hundreds, if not thousands, of mills once dotted the hills and glades of what is now West Virginia. Though the vast majority are gone, towns all over the Mountain State b...

...vivid and authentic detail....Lawson makes all the trials of the American Revolution come alive." - Jodi Daynard, author of The Midwife's Revolt In 1778, war is men's business. That doesn't stop Anna Stone from getting involved in the fight. As the wife of a preacher-turned-soldier, a healer, and mother of three, Anna knows her place in this world. She tends to things at home while her husband and brothers fight for liberty. But when her ...

...vivid and authentic detail....Lawson makes all the trials of the American Revolution come alive." - Jodi Daynard, author of The Midwife's Revolt In 1778, war is men's business. That doesn't stop Anna Stone from getting involved in the fight. As the wife of a preacher-turned-soldier, a healer, and mother of three, Anna knows her place in this world. She tends to things at home while her husband and brothers fight for liberty. But when her ...

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A spark can ignite a revolution. Tommy and Careen have been vilified in the media for the Resistance's failed attempt to take down the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense. Both teens struggle to survive the circumstances that thrust them into the national spotlight, and this time, they don't have each other to lean on. They're on opposite sides. Even though both the OCSD and the Resistance believe Careen's convincing defection, Tommy refuses...

Knowledge comes with a price. Tommy and Careen's eyes are opened to the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense's abuses of power. After accidentally discovering that the miracle antidote that's supposed to protect them is actually meant to control them, they take their knowledge public and join the fight to undermine the OCSD's next bid for total control of the population. Being a part of the Resistance brings with it a whole new set of challen...

The government uses fear to control you. Show no fear, and they will destroy you. Still raw from the death of his parents, eighteen-year-old Tommy Bailey isn't sure if he wants to live-until he meets complex and intriguing Careen. He comes to her aid during a terrorist gas-strike, sharing his last dose of the government-mandated antidote that, they've been told, is key to their survival. Without enough antidote, the teens expect to die. Instea...

To deny freedom is to deny the human spirit. Fugitive Resistance fighter Tommy Bailey has come out of hiding to help rescue Careen Catecher from the clutches of the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense, where she's being held and interrogated for information about the rebel group. The OCSD is poised to launch the Cerberean Link, a security device that will put all minors under constant surveillance under the guise of protecting them. Convince...

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