Deep Summer

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Summary: How did the Southern lifestyle come into existence?
Review: A very interesting novel about how the Louisiana plantation life got started in the first place. Through the life of Judith, a girl originally from Connecticut, the reader sees first hand how the Southern plantations got their start, how slavery became an entrenched part of the Southern economy, what the phrase "Poor White Trash" means, how and why the cotton gin changed the Southern life style and what the Louisiana territory was like under English, Spanish, French & American domination with its grand mix of cultures. The story will take you from the late 1700's to the early 1800's. Be sure to read the author's preface and epilogue!

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Summary: How did the Southern lifestyle come into existence?
Review: Although hard to find a copy of this book, it is well worth the hunt. Excellant for all ages and very romantic. You'll turn the pages fast, laugh, gringe, cry...my all time favorite read and based on history of LA as well.

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Summary: Best series of Books I have ever read!!!!
Review: Deep Summer is only the first of 3 books to complete the Plantation Trilogy. The book starts out with a family of 4 heading down from New England in the mid 1700's to start a new life in the Deep South. You will follow this family and many other families all the way to the early 1900's. It is amazing to read and imagine how these people felt during all the ups and downs the Plantation life has to offer them, good and bad!! I reccommend this book to everyone who is at all interested in history or just a good ole love story.

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Summary: Swept Off My Feet
Review: I recentlly was privleged to find this book at a thrift store for 60 cents...hard bound and in perfect condition. I had never heard of it before, but read the first page and decided i liked how it sounded. So i bought it. I struck gold. This book swept me off my feet. It is the tail of a young girl who is tought to be a "perfect lady" but yearns to know what it is like not to be. She falls in love with the man she has been dreaming of. Someone open and adventerous. Soon she finds herself on her way to California, on the Jubalee Trail. This book touched me in a way that no ther book has. It is filled with everything a book should be filled with: history, adventure, romance and much much more. I adore it and recomend it to everyone.

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Summary: absolutely wonderful book!!!1
Review: this book was great! anything of Gwen Bristows is just absolutely heart felt! read Celia Garth by Gwen Bristow. it is a great book taking place during the civil war. i just loved this book. anyone that has a love for the old romantic south will fall in love w/ this triloligy. crystal

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Summary: Celia Garth
Review: This is the first Gwen Bristow novel I've ever read. Her historical fiction is wonderful. This is the first of her plantation trilogy, set in what becomes Louisiana, prior to the American Revolution. It follows the Larne and Sheramy families, telling how they carved their empires out of the forests. It's a great love story, a great historical novel, and my favorite of the trilogy.