{"product_id":"as-best-we-could-9780971856226","title":"As Best We Could","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe story begins...\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust before Christmas, 1861, James \"Jamie\" McNeil, a young recruit in Captain Buckham's Sharpshooter Company at Delhi, New York, writes a letter of apology to pretty Mary Edwards. Mary had tumbled off her horse, and Jamie hopes she will forgive him for causing the accident. Mary, a spirited young woman from a farm near Meredith Square, replies pertly that she cannot accept his apology for, she admits, the mishap was entirely the fault of her own Willful Nature. She had been scandalously riding astride, and in scrambling to adjust herself properly sidesaddle, had lost her balance and fallen. \"As Grandmother would say, I am a foolish girl who got what was coming to me,\" she tells him. Jamie gallantly replies that she should not believe she deserved what she got, and that her fall was really very graceful.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e So begins a correspondence that is to last through nearly four years of war and suffering, and will blossom into a love that will sustain each of them in their most trying days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will fall in love with Mary and Jamie as they slowly discover each other and a love that will last a lifetime. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean Marie McLain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e 1st World Library Incorporated\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.07d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780971856226\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"1st World Library Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44456493744243,"sku":"9780971856226","price":46.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_9b37c31b-50f6-46df-a302-462cfb03839b.jpg?v=1773751901","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/as-best-we-could-9780971856226","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}