Frances Patton Statham, Author Ballantine Books $9 (408p) ISBN 978-0-449-90340-7
This fictionalized biography of Mary Musgrove, a Creek princess who served as liaison and interpreter for James Oglethorpe, is too simplistic and bland for the targeted adult audience but may vivify early 18th-century Georgia for young adults....
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Frances Patton Statham, Author Ballantine Books $7.95 (379p) ISBN 978-0-449-90250-9
In this sequel to The Roswell Women , set 25 years after the Civil War, unhappily married Dr. Charles ``Coin'' Forsyte learns that his first wife Allison has in fact survived their wartime separation, remarried and is now the loving mother of his...
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Frances Patton Statham, Author, Fran Patton Statham, Author Ballantine Books $10 (427p) ISBN 978-0-449-90659-0
Storytelling takes a back seat to didacticism in Statham's ( The Roswell Women ) grim tale of how, in mid-19th-century Georgia, the Cherokees were robbed, driven from their homes and sent on a forced march westward. A slim story centers on Laurel...
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