Crescent City - Charnwood Library Author:Belva Plain She was the exquisite daughter of a wealthy��Jewish merchant. From a charmed girlhood in opulent New��Orleans, she would be swept into the cataclysm of��the Civil War. Forced to choose between her duties��as a Southern wife and mother and her love for a��forbidden man, a forbidden cause, Miriam Raphael is��at the center of the whirlwind in a spe... more »llbinding��novel of divided loyalties and divided hearts.« less