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A historical novel is a novel in which the story is set among historical events, or more generally, in which the time of the action predates the lifetime of the author. As such, the historical novel is distinguished from the alternate-history genre. The historical novel was popularized in the 19th century by artists classified as Romantics. Many regard Sir Walter Scott as the first to have used this technique, in his novels of Scottish history such as Waverley (1814) and Rob Roy (1818). His Ivanhoe (1820) gains credit for renewing interest in the Middle Ages. Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) furnishes another early example of the historical novel.

Historical fiction may center on historical or on fictional characters, but usually represents an honest attempt based on considerable research (or at least serious reading) to tell a story set in the historical past as understood by the author's contemporaries. Those historical settings may not stand up to the enhanced knowledge of later historians. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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THE MIRACLE MAKER [THE HARLIE BOOK IV]

by J.F. Bernard

Leaving a troubled past behind him, Elmo Cotton (along with his good friend and neighbor, Mister Sherman Dixon) finally arrives at Old Port Fierce. It is there, in the infamous city he hopes to find the so-called ‘Miracle-Maker’ who had deserted him and his mother so many years ago, and kill him.

Inside an old brown suitcase, along with a pair of ‘sailin’ shoes’ left to him by his dead uncle, lies the Motherstone, the strange black object Red-Beard had stolen from the dead man’s grave and Elmo brought back down from the mountain the day he died. It is the key to not only a deep, dark and disturbing past, but also a bright new future that still lies an ocean away.           

But before that can happen, Elmo, who is still very much a fugitive from Justice and ‘Raccoon on the run’, becomes involved in several incidences where fate and providence take over, leading him not only to his penultimate destiny, but to MIRACLE TEMPLE AND BARBECUE PIT OF AVENUE ‘D’ and the Miracle-Maker himself.

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A RACCOON ON THE RUN [THE HARLIE BOOK III]

by J.F. Bernard

In book three of the Harlie Series, ‘A RACCOON ON THE RUN’, Elmo Cotton is forced, through a series of unfortunate events which he still doesn’t quite understand, to make the most difficult decision of his life.  As the prime suspect in the murder of Red-Beard ‘Rusty’ Horn (and possible seven other men), and under the squinting eye of a sceptical sheriff, he leaves his wife and child behind and becomes a fugitive from Justice; or, if you prefer, a raccoon on the run.  

Before he leaves, however, Elmo is given some sound advice from his Uncle Joe, an old black sailor who dies suddenly in his rocking chair one day shortly after he looks into the mysterious Motherstone.  He leaves his nephew with a few intriguing hints of the past, a suitcase and a pair of ‘sailin shoes’ which he hopes Elmo will find useful along the way. 

The Harlie heads south, along with the Motherstone, and before long finds himself living among a tribe of ancient Redmen, or Indians, who promptly and for reasons that soon become obvious, bestow upon him the coveted but sometimes precarious title of ‘The Great Raccoon’ and demi-god deluxe!  But he is not alone; for ever since he ran away from home, the raccoon has been stalked by someone who not only knows what really happened up on the mountain when Red-Beard was killed, but moreover, what it is that Elmo has brought back down with him, the Motherstone.    

Coming to the sad but inevitable conclusion that he is not a demi-god after all, and still very much a raccoon on the run, Elmo continues his journey south. Along the road, he comes across his best friend and neighbour, Mister Sherman Dixon, another poor sharecropper from Elmo’s home town who bears the uncanny resemblance to a big fat turtle.  He is on his way to Old Fort Pierce with a wagon-load of Harley beans, of course, which so happens to be where Elmo is going.  Shall we go?

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THE MOTHERSTONE [THE HARLIE BOOK II]

by J.F. Bernard

THE MOTHERSTONE, a sequel to Book One of the Harlie Series, completes the ‘Expedition’ which Homer Skinner and company have undertaken in search for the lost gold mine of Cornelius Wainwright.  When they finally arrive at the site of the doomed excavation, no one is more surprised than Elmo Cotton, the ‘Lucky Number’, a poor black sharecropper who came along looking for adventure (and perhaps a new bathtub for his wife), to find out that there is much more in store than he ever anticipated.  As it just so happens, Red-Beard, a.k.a Rusty Horn, stumbles upon what turns out not only to be the cause of the original catastrophe, along with his own death, but the one thing that will eventually lead Elmo to his ultimate destiny, a destiny that will take him to places he could only dream of, and beyond. It is an adventure of metaphysical realities, hidden truths of the past, culture, philosophy, politics and religion, all mixed with a healthy dose of pure Americana as viewed through the unassuming and kaleidoscopic mind of the Harlie… and, of course, the Motherstone.

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THE EXPEDITION [THE HARLIE BOOK I]

by J.F. Bernard

THE EXPEDITION is the first book in a four volume series of historical fantasy/fiction that provides a unique and entertaining perspective of American culture as viewed through the kaleidoscopic and unassuming eyes of its main character, Elmo Cotton, a young mulatto sharecropper of questionable identity. 

Shortly after the Civil War when Elmo Cotton, otherwise known as the ‘Harlie’, becomes part of an ill-fated expedition lead by Mister Homer Skinner, an old man with a tooth ache and a dream who’d stumbled upon the lost gold mine forty years ago at the end of a long dark tunnel, and Colonel Rusty ‘Red-Beard’ Horn, an ex-army officer with a bewildering past and a secret agenda....

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