Nancy Coffey Heffernan
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When it flourished in the 1940s and 50s, the town of War, West Virginia was definitely not "Our Town" or "Main Street." An Appalachian melting pot supported by the coal mines that surrounded it, War drew immigrants from all over Europe-Brits, Italians, Poles, you name it--who came to the coalfields to seek their fortune. Though many became miners, some of them launched furniture stores, saloons, radio shops, and hardware stores to serve the surrounding...
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Set in the 1680s and '90s on the New England frontier, Blood Sisters is the story of two real and extraordinary women, Hannah Duston and her sister Elizabeth Emerson. Against a background of ongoing Indian attacks, witch trials, the struggling frontier, severe families, and hellfire Puritan preachers, the sisters grew up to be courageous, independent, sensual, and rebellious. Each in her time faced very different critical and terrifying situations....