Early United States
A Tendering in the Storm
This book continues the story begun in A Clearing in the Wild. Both novels are based on the true story…
The War of Knives
The year is 1800, and the Haitian revolution has become a brutal civil war. Lieutenant Matty Graves of the U.S.…
Abraham’s Well
Editors' choice
Until she is about seven years old, Armentia never knows she is a slave. She grows up in the southern…
Heyday
For those who enjoyed Kurt Andersen’s Turn of the Century, with its picture of New York City around the year…
The Blackest Bird
On a July Sunday morning in 1841, Mary Cecilia Rogers left her mother’s house on Nassau Street in New York…
In Pursuit of Glory
In 1807, the fledging American merchant marine and naval ships continued to be harassed by the British Royal Navy in…
Patriot Hearts: A Novel of the Founding Mothers
Patriot Hearts tells the stories of four women: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Sally Hemings, and Dolley Madison. It opens in…
My Lady Pocahontas
In grade school, we all hear the story of Pocahontas, the daughter of an Indian chief who befriends Captain John…
A Hearth in Candlewood
In 1841, with grace and fortitude, fifty-year-old Emma Garrett presides over Hill House, a stately boardinghouse in the canal village…
Queen of Swords
Sara Donati revives the sweeping, no-holds-barred historical sagas of the 1970s and 1980s in Queen of Swords, the fifth book…
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