Early United States
The Woman at the Light
When her husband disappears during an afternoon’s fishing, Emily Lowry grits her teeth and keeps tending the Wrecker’s Cay lighthouse…
Escape from Texas
In 1829 Samuel Bingham brings his slave James Robinson to the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas, where he intends…
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
If you think you know all about Thomas Jefferson, read Jon Meacham’s brilliant 2012 biography, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of…
Come August, Come Freedom
Gabriel is born into slavery in Virginia during the American Revolution. He is raised on Prosser’s plantation and then sent…
Captain’s Wife: Narrative of a Voyage in the Schooner Antarctic 1829, 1830, 1831
This firsthand account by a woman of a voyage to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific is part of the…
Love’s Reckoning
Eden Lee’s tyrannical father is determined that his new apprentice, Silas Ballantyne, will marry one of his daughters. The family…
Something Strange and Deadly
Eleanor would do anything for her dear older brother Elijah, including fighting an evil necromancer who is awakening the dead…
The Gifted
Set in 1849, this novel provides another addition to Ann Gabhart’s Shaker series. This narrative continues to follow the lives…
The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo – and the Sacrifice that Forged a Nation
Donovan, who wrote A Terrible Glory, called the “definitive” history of Custer and the battle of Little Big Horn, has…
True Sisters
The year is 1856, and it is already July when a determined group of Mormon Saints begins a journey from…
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