Colonial America
West of the Alleghenies: A Story of Survival During the Revolutionary War
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Pennington has written an exciting novel about the adventures of an ancestor, Fergus Moorhead, a pioneer settler in western Pennsylvania between 1766 and 1778. Fergus ...Read Review
Magic Lessons
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Hoffman previously revisited the beloved world and characters she created for the blockbuster hit Practical Magic when she gave readers the life stories ...Read Review
To the New World & Back: Blake and the Mysterious Coin (DNA Chronicles)
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In the modern-day United States, Blake gets in trouble in history class and is assigned to write a special report on the Pilgrims. ...Read Review
The Brief and True Report of Temperance Flowerdew
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A historical woman with the delightful name of Temperance Flowerdew played a crucial role in the early colony of Jamestown, Virginia. She married ...Read Review
Freedom Dues
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1729: Poverty drives fifteen-year-old Antrim linen weaver Blair Eakins and his brother to emigrate as indentured servants to Maryland. On a prison ship, Mallie ...Read Review
Charis in the World of Wonders: A Novel Set in Puritan New England
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As an Indian raid threatens young Charis’ household in Falmouth, Massachusetts (now Maine), her mother sends Charis and her young sister Mary to ...Read Review
The Girl Who Was Me Is Gone
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Brown, a former film- and screenwriter, has created a vivid, electric, action-packed novel. He exposes a little-known period of 17th-century Irish history: when ...Read Review
Daughter of Anne-Hoeck
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Boston, 1650: Susanna Hutchison, daughter of the heretic Anne Hutchison, and the only survivor of the Indian attack that killed her mother and siblings, ...Read Review
Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain
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Combining written texts and unwritten archeological and anthropological signs of civilization, this deep history focuses on the confrontation between Spanish explorers and indigenous ...Read Review
Becoming Lady Washington
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Despite its title, Becoming Lady Washington focuses on nearly the entirety of Martha Washington’s life, from her courtship by her first husband ...Read Review