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High Hearts

by Rita Mae Brown

From the celebrated author of Rubyfruit Jungle and Bingo comes a stirring novel of the Civil War, a tale of true love and mistaken identity. Brimming with colorful characters and vivid settings, High Hearts is Rita Mae Brown at her most ambitious and entertaining.

April 12, 1861. Bright, gutsy and young,Geneva Chatfield marries Nash Hart in Albemarle County, Virginia, the same... (read more)

Top tags: civil war, rita mae brown, southern fiction, the south, romance (all tags)

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Southern Literature 75 books / 115 members / 104 posts This group is for any reader interested in southern literature, from the classics (Thomas Wolfe, Eudora Welty, Erskine Caldwell, etc.) to the contemporary (Fannie Flagg, Lee Smith, Nicholas Sparks, etc.). Members should share a love of texts that relay the often humble lives of eccentric southerners as they tackle the odds, build character, and find love in the diverse coastal towns, farms, and mountain villages we know as home.