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Charlsie Russell

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Historical Fiction, Romance, Suspense

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Frank Yerby, Zane Grey, and my dad, the reader.

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Charlsie Russell is the oldest child of a Mississippi father and an Arkansan mother. After graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1972 with a degree in archaeology, she entered the Navy's Officer Candidate School from where she emerged an ensign. She retired in 1993 as a full commander in Naval Intelligenge, and returned with her family to her home state of Mississippi. After the last of her five children entered kindergarten she indulged her loves of reading, history,and the South, delving into the world of writing.

After seven years of rejection, she woke up one morning and decided she did not have enough years left on this planet to sit back and hope a New York publisher would one day take a risk on her novels. Thus resolved, s ...more

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State Rights was About Federalism, not Slavery

I just finished reading From Founding Fathers to Fire-Eaters by James Rutledge Roesch. It’s a new book (2018) on an old subject, but it’s an excellent, entertaining, and both an enjoyable and easy read considering the complexity of the subject and the brilliant minds of the Southern political theorists whose works Mr. Roesch has compiled and edited into a succinct outline of the state rights doctr Read more of this blog post »

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	River's Bend by Charlsie Russell (Goodreads Author), Nancy McDowell (Editor) 4.02 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil's Bastard by Charlsie Russell (Goodreads Author), Nancy McDowell (Editor) 3.82 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wolf Dawson by Charlsie Russell (Goodreads Author), Nancy McDowell (Editor) 4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil's Bastard by Charlsie Russell (Goodreads Author), Nancy McDowell (Editor) 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Camellia Creek by Charlsie Russell (Goodreads Author), Nancy McDowell (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Epico Bayou by Charlsie Russell (Goodreads Author), Nancy McDowell (Editor) 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honor's Banner (Liberty in Ashes Book 1) by Charlsie Russell (Goodreads Author), Nancy McDowell (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Requited Harvest 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liberty in Ashes: Two Complete Novels: "Camellia Creek" and "Honor's Banner" 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eve of the Carpetbagger (Liberty in Ashes Book 3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Charlsie Russell made a comment in the group American Historical Fiction — What Are You Reading? topic " Nice suggestion, Patrick. You know, one of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s white horses was named King Phillip. I always figured he’d dubbed him such because ...more "
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Charlsie Russell and 1 other person liked Cindy's review of Make You Feel My Love (Wishing for a Hero, #1): "Audible listen narrated by Jason Clarke and Amy McFadden. Being from Mississippi, I wasn’t sure what to prepare for. Bad accents weren’t overly exaggerated, Jason didn’t change and I appreciated that 100%. Amy McFadden on the other hand…she did go ove" Read more of this review »
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Charlsie Russell liked Stephen Tuck's review of To Have and Have Not: "This is written in Hemingway’s usual muscular style which is always a pleasure to read. It suffers a bit from a jagged storyline and some of the later chapters seem to be fragments of abandoned stories that have been bolted on despite not having anyt" Read more of this review »
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Liberty in Ashes, available in digital format only, is one volume comprising two novels, Camellia Creek and Honor's banner. My decision to go ahead and combine the two books was in no small part due to the upcoming (Feb 2023) launch of novel three Ev ...more
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I really enjoy this cozy mystery series.
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