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|  | | The Citrus Baron
Daniel Cantrell, patriach of an old South Carolina clan moves his family from from the deep south, to the booming area of Brevard county, Florida. His driving ambition gains him the finest groves in the central area of the state. He marries three times, and sires ten children. The life of one son is followed, Hoyt.
Hoyt becomes the outcast son of a prostitute woman. He surrenders lost dreams to his oldest daughter Channa, who pursues them relentlessly to win back the family honor.
Traumatized by a lost love from which she never recovers, Channa picks up the figurative sword and fights on, in the name of her father.
Prologue
There remained an indelible image of a young girl on the threshold of adulthood, with long chestnut hair, locked in the arms of her fourth cousin, beneath a swaying palm. Channa had given her heart away for the first time, carrying the torch long and hard. She had outgrown her first love, but never truly recovered from it.
Now Austin Boyd was gone, laid to rest perhaps twenty-five yards from her grandfather. He went suddenly Christmas Eve of 89, reputedly a lonely, broken man.
Holiday time of that year had been especially depressing. Channa was restless, sleepless, unable | |  | | Upon the Robin's Breast
Upon the Robin's Breast is a southern romance of old Charleston. The historical backdrop is the election of former confederate General Wade Hampton to the governorship of South Carolina.
Another war was nearly fought over the Hampton election. It was a tumultuous time in the state's history.
The central characters are Bravard Middleton Civil War veteran and scion of a long line of Charleston people. He falls in love with Ernestine Coleman, a belle of breeding and a girl of his class. She's more than 20 years his junior. One obstacle remains; he's a married man, unable to loose himself from a good and faithful wife. A secondary plot involves Pearl macLean, Bravard's long time mistress and confidant. After tiring of her, he pawns her off on a young unsuspecting u |
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Shanghai Escapist
by Robert Liu
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 Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70 |
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