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To Outwit Them All

By Peggy Wirgau - Published 2025

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Peggy Wirgau’s latest historical novel is set in New York, during the time of the American Revolution. Betty Floyd, a 21-year-old socialite, ...Read Review

The Irish Yankee

By Regan Walker - Published 2025

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AdventureNautical

In June 1775, two months after the first battle of the Revolutionary War, Irish Yankee Jeremiah O’Brien gives up his lumber business and ...Read Review

The Journey of the Snake

By Adam Smith - Published 2025

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In 1780, the American Revolutionary War against the Brits roils on land and water. Twenty-three-year-old Charlotte Savatier travels from Quebec to Charleston, where she ...Read Review

Tobacco Republic

By R.A. Moss - Published 2025

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Alternate History

Tobacco Republic is an enthralling work of alternative history that underscores just how improbable the creation of the United States truly was. The ...Read Review

Rebellion 1776

By Laurie Halse Anderson - Published 2025

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Children/Young Adult

After the death by smallpox of her mother and siblings, Elsbeth and her father move to Boston, fleeing their own grief. Her father ...Read Review

The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America

By Kostya Kennedy - Published 2025

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Nonfiction

Every schoolchild in America has heard of Paul Revere’s “midnight ride,” due in large part to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1860 poem about ...Read Review

The Time Travel Twins (The Time Travel Twins, 1)

By James Patterson - By Tad Safran - Published 2024

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Children/Young AdultTime-slip

Basket, a white girl, and Pew, a Black boy, are twelve-year-old twins, living in a terrible fortress-like orphanage. Oddly, there are no other ...Read Review

City of Spies

By Elisa Paganelli (illus.) - By Iszi Lawrence - Published 2024

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Children/Young Adult

1780 New York. The British Army is trying to beat the rebel American colonists into submission and restore King George III’s rightful rule, ...Read Review

Freedom’s Ghost: A Mystery of the American Revolution (Bone Rattler)

By Eliot Pattison - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

This seventh in Eliot Pattison’s series of mysteries of the American Revolution seizes a small portion of time in the lead-up to ...Read Review

The Tea Merchant

By Leena Bhatnagar - Published 2022

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It’s July of 1773, and we’re in Boston. Tensions are mounting between the Sons of Liberty and the colonial government led by ...Read Review