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Donald McCaig
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Donald McCaig lives in Western Virginia, and is the author of several well-reviewed novels of the American Civil War, including, Jacob's Ladder, which was hailed as 'the best civil war novel ever written' by the Virginia Quarterly and as 'a gentle, compelling story' by the Washington Post. It won the Michael Shaara Award for Civil War Fiction and the Library of Virginia Award for Fiction.
Book List in Order: 10 titles
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Nop's Trials
- Jun-1985
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A novel about the bond between a farmer and his black-and-white border collie that James Herriot called “beautiful [and] as gripping as any thriller.” On Christmas Day, Virginia livestock farmer Lewis Burkholder and Nop, his black-and-whi...
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Nop's Hope
- Apr-1994
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A young widow travels the competition circuit with her border collie in this novel by the author of Nop’s Trials, “a great writer” (James Herriot). After her husband and daughter are killed in a car accident, Penny Burkeholder leave...
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Jacob's Ladder
- Jan-1998
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Winner of the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction A civil war saga that resonates with the bitter glory and human shame of the Confederacy.Jacob’s Ladder is a Civil War epic, a love story that pits the indomitable longing of th...
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Rhett Butler's People
- Nov-2007
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Through the storytelling mastery of award-winning writer Donald McCaig, the life and times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfolds. Through Rhett's eyes we meet the people who shaped his larger than life personality as it sprang from Margaret Mitchell's ...
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Ruth's Journey
- Oct-2014
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Before Tara, before Ellen and Scarlett, before the war that would divide a nation ... she was Ruth. This is her story. Set against the backdrop of the American South from the 1820s until the dawn of the Civil War, Ruth's Journey sweeps from the is...
