A. Robert Hill
— 2000-09-01
in Fiction
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The Colonel's Lady is the story of an Air Force fighter pilot who became an ace during the Korean War. He returned home to find his high school and college friends married and as a returning veteran finds he is about as popular as a quarterback who threw and interception in a play-off game. Because of his love for flying, he stayed in the Air Force and by an act of the CIA and his commanding officer, he is introduced to a beautiful Russian girl in Arizona. He is ordered to fly her to Alaska where the NVKD, Russian Secret Service will pick her up in exchange for a captured CIA agent. He thinks she is just another broad. She thinks he is just another cocky fighter pilot and turns a cold shoulder to him until they are forced down in the wilds of Canada. After their return to civilization, she is sent back to Russia and an insane NVKD colonel who is threatening her family. He takes a job with a civilian airline. After flying over the world in jet passenger planes, and taking many women, the memory of this girl cannot be suppressed. when the CAB opens Russia for commercial airlines, he is assigned to the first jet service into Moscow, where with a breaking in the Cold War, Russian newspapers carry pictures of their inaugural flight and she sees his handsome face once again.
Laura Frantz
— 2011-08-01
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In 1779, when genteel Virginia spinster Roxanna Rowan arrives at the Kentucky fort commanded by Colonel Cassius McLinn, she finds that her officer father has died. Penniless and destitute, Roxanna is forced to take her father's place as scrivener. Before long, it's clear that the colonel himself is attracted to her. But she soon realizes the colonel has grave secrets of his own--some of which have to do with her father's sudden death. Can she ever truly love him? Readers will be enchanted by this powerful story of love, faith, and forgiveness from reader favorite Laura Frantz. Her solid research and deft writing immerse readers in the world of the early frontier while her realistic characters become intimate friends.
Alice Kirk Grierson
— 1989-01-01
in Biography & Autobiography
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Collects the letters of the wife of Civil War major general Benjamin H. Grierson, describing daily life and hardships at frontier posts like Fort Riley, Fort Concho, Fort Davis, and Fort Grant
Ashton Stevens
— 1948
in American drama
Author : Ashton Stevens
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— 1949
in Business and politics
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— 1890
in Military art and science
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Raymond Toole-Stott Collection of W. Somerset Maugham (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library)
— 1946
in Short stories, English
Author : Raymond Toole-Stott Collection of W. Somerset Maugham (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library)
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Susanna Centlivre
— 1872
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Susannah Centlivre
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