I SHALL BE NEAR TO YOU: A NOVEL

NY: Crown. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2014. first edition,1p; 10987654321 pt line. Hardcover. 9.4 X 6.3 X 1.6 inches. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S24.00) DUST JACKET; GOLD SPINE TITLES ON WHITE HARD COVERS.. DUST JACKET SHOWS TITLE OVER CIVIL WAR APPEARING COLOR PHOTO OF YOUNG union SOLDIER... Paragraph length note from author, signed by author on title page.."and don't forget the long eared rabbits!" Also several promotional flyers from bookstore where signing took place in Author's home town, Chico,CAlif.. ; 320 pages; An extraordinary novel about a strong-willed woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight beside her husband, inspired by the letters of a remarkable female soldier who fought in the Civil War. Rosetta doesn't want her new husband Jeremiah to enlist, but he joins up, hoping to make enough money that they'll be able to afford their own farm someday. Though she's always worked by her father’s side as the son he never had, now that Rosetta is a wife she's told her place is inside with the other women. But Rosetta decides her true place is with Jeremiah, no matter what that means, and to be with him she cuts off her hair, hems an old pair of his pants, and signs up as a Union soldier.; Signed by Author .