Early United States
The Strange Courtship of Kathleen O’Dwyer
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Kathleen O’Dwyer is made of stronger mettle than the average woman. In 1828, she travels west to escape the unwanted advances of a ...Read Review
Yankee Mission (Thomas Kydd, 25)
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The 25th book in the Thomas Kydd series is set at the time of the United States’ declaration of war with Britain in 1812 ...Read Review
Lay This Body Down (Gideon Stoltz Mystery Series)
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Gideon Stoltz is the sheriff of the south-central Pennsylvania town of Adamant. In the spring of 1837, 24-year-old Gideon—who is fairly new in ...Read Review
Queen of the West
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Annie and Max meet on the Ohio River on a steamship bound for Cincinnati in the 1850s. Annie is extremely upset about being ...Read Review
Murder on the Underground Railroad: A Historical Thriller (The Moorheads)
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Indiana, Pennsylvania, 1826. When two escaped, formerly enslaved men are found brutally murdered in a barn, the county sheriff shows no interest in investigating. ...Read Review
Hester
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In 1829, 19-year-old Isobel Gamble emigrates from Scotland to Salem, Massachusetts, with a tyrannical husband who’s ruined his apothecary practice through an opium ...Read Review
My Name Is Ona Judge
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In this dual-timeline novel, Suzette D. Harrison interweaves the story of Ona Judge, a favored slave of Martha Washington, with the modern-day story ...Read Review
The Rice Birds
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In 1849, Nora and Claire Murphy, indentured servants during the height of the Great Hunger, make the crossing to the United States aboard one ...Read Review
This Thy Brother (Five Star Western Series)
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Melvin and his older brother, Richard Pate, are on their own. The pair have left the rest of their family and struck out ...Read Review
With a Kiss I Die: A Novel of the Massacre at Mountain Meadows (Five Star Western Series)
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A wagon train of emigrants hoping for a better life in California leaves Arkansas. Polly is alone after her family has died of ...Read Review
