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Michael L. Ross

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Michael Ross is a lover of history and great stories. He’s a retired software engineer turned author, with three children, and five grandchildren, living in Newton, Kansas with his wife of 42 years. Michael graduated from Rice University and Portland State University with degrees in German and software engineering. He was part of an MBA program at Boston University. He was born in Lubbock, Texas, and still loves Texas. He’s written short stories and technical articles in the past, as well as articles for the Texas Historical Society. Across the Great Divide now has three novels in the series, “The Clouds of War”, “The Search”, and “The Founding”. The series has won many awards and positive reviews, including Silver Medal Book of the Year fr ...more

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	The Founding (Across the Great Divide, #3) 4.70 avg rating — 50 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
	The Clouds of War (Across the Great Divide, #1) 4.38 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2019 — 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 Search (Across the Great Divide, #2) 4.58 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2020 — 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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Mary Kearny: A Tale of Forbidden Love in 1780s England

by Katherine Mezzacappa The Ballad of Mary Kearny is an immersive read into the 1780s world of England, Ireland, and France. Conflicts stem from the title character’s class and religion- Mary is in servitude, a Catholic in Protestant England. She … Continued

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“This was nothing like doing drills in front of Morrison or even the skirmishes they’d seen in the war up to this point. What compelled men to don clothes of different colors, like skins, march out on a field, and kill without thinking, based on the color of that woolen skin?”
― Michael L. Ross

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“Michael is an excellent storyteller and has done a wonderful job depicting Luther, and the other black characters in this book. He has done his homework and depicts many historical facts about Nicodemus in a most enlightening and creative way. It has been a pleasure working with someone who has made a concerted effort to get things right.

Angela Bates
Nicodemus Descendant/Historian
Executive Director
The Nicodemus Historical Society and Museum”
― Michael L Ross, The Founding

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