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02242aam a2200385 i 4500 001 51A67E6A3F7E11E78C4957BEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170523010210 007 n 008 161222s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2016041823 020 $a 1432833936 : HRD : 020 $a 9781432833930 : HRD : 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Graham, Marc, $d 1969- 245 10 $a Of ashes and dust / $c Marc Graham. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Five Star Publishing, $c 2017. 300 $a 336 pages ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a "He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. -- Job 30:19 (NKJV) Jim Robbins is a dead man, and he knows it. He's fought Yankee and Pawnee, fought for the love of two very different women, fought for his very survival. Now, as the scenes of his life flash before him, his greatest struggle is about to begin. Wounded in a railroad explosion, Jim reviews those moments that shaped him. From the inequities of the Antebellum South, to the horrors of the American Civil War, to the juggernaut of westward expansion, he played his part in the events that forged a nation -- and not always for the better. In his debut novel, Marc Graham explores what it is that defines a life. Is there meaning and purpose, or is it all just a series of accidents? Is a man simply the victim of circumstance, or maker of his own destiny? Perhaps most important, do his choices and actions survive him, or is his life but a stirring of ashes and dust?" -- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20170309. 650 7 $a Historical fiction. 650 1 $a Railroads $z Australia $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Self-realization $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Accident victims $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Bildungsromans. 650 $a United States $x Fiction. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Fiction. 650 $a Life change events $x Fiction. 650 $a West (U.S) $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Mortality $v Fiction. 941 $a 4 952 $l DUPB413 $d 20180706021626.0 952 $l DQPA403 $d 20180703024123.0 952 $l JBPC145 $d 20170615154744.0 952 $l HPPD845 $d 20170523022137.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=51A67E6A3F7E11E78C4957BEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search