Early United States

The Folklorist

By Eileen O’Finlan - Published 2023

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Set in Vermont during the 1830s and 1970s, this story alternates between Jerusha Kendall in Birch Falls and her several times great-granddaughter, Charlotte ...Read Review

The Frozen River

By Ariel Lawhon - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

The frozen body of a man is captive in the ice of Maine’s Kennebec River. Once he is cut free and laid ...Read Review

Crow Mary

By Kathleen Grissom - Published 2023

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Biographical Fiction

Crow Mary is based on the life of Goes First, a Crow chief’s daughter. Her story begins in 1863 as a young girl ...Read Review

Brock’s Spirit

By Tom Taylor - Published 2023

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MilitaryThriller

General Brock is dead, but his sense of honor, justice, and bold service lives on in Jonathan Westlake. Only a handful of people ...Read Review

Let Us Descend

By Jesmyn Ward - Published 2023

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Literary

Young Annis, an enslaved girl in the antebellum South, meets a series of misfortunes and is thrust into ever more hellish circumstances in ...Read Review

Before the Devil Knows You’re Here

By Autumn Krause - Published 2023

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Children/Young Adult

Teenaged Catalina, her younger brother, Jose Luis, and their widowed Pa live on a hardscrabble farm in the Wisconsin Territory of 1836. Pa takes ...Read Review

Longhorns East

By Johnny D. Boggs - Published 2023

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Western

Tom Candy Ponting was a little-known 19th century cattleman who led an improbable 2,100-mile-long cattle drive. This fictionalized account presents an epic story ...Read Review

The Lace Widow (An Eliza Hamilton Mystery)

By Mollie Ann Cox - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

New York, 1804. Alexander Hamilton has been killed in a duel with Aaron Burr. Eliza Hamilton, his wife, is distraught at the loss of ...Read Review

The Solace of Stars: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

By Kathleen Ernst - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

This second in a new series, inspired by the author’s work at an outdoor ethnic museum in Wisconsin, introduces Hanneke Bauer, a ...Read Review

I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died (An Emily Dickinson Mystery)

By Amanda Flower - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

Intrepid poet Emily Dickinson and her maid, Willa Noble, return as a pair of amateur sleuths in this delightful and well-researched historical mystery. ...Read Review