US Civil War

Butterfly: Part One

By Edwin Page - Published 2020

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Cameroon, West Africa, 1860. Yannick and his younger sister, Amma, are slaves, so they understand hardship and cruelty. But their life is to change ...Read Review

The Age of Witches

By Louisa Morgan - Published 2020

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Historical Fantasy

In 1692 Massachusetts, Bridget Byshop is hanged as a witch and leaves two daughters who pass very different magical traditions to their descendants in ...Read Review

The Engineer’s Wife

By Tracey Enerson Wood - Published 2020

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Biographical Fiction

In the tradition of many recent novels bringing to light the stories of forgotten women from America’s past, meet Emily Warren Roebling, ...Read Review

Simon the Fiddler

By Paulette Jiles - Published 2020

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Western

Simon Boudin, a Southerner by birth, doesn’t care about the Civil War, nearing its bloody end in March 1865. An itinerant fiddler who ...Read Review

The Green Soldier

By J. Edward Gore - Published 2019

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Military

To fight for his country just as his ancestor did, John Gore joins the Union Army in 1861. He hopes to earn a medal ...Read Review

Under the Freedom Tree

By Susan VanHecke - Published 2019

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Children/Young Adult

In 1861, three men escaped slavery by rowing across a body of water and being received and protected by the Northern army. Soon more ...Read Review

Murder at the Capitol (Lincoln’s White House Mystery)

By C. M. Gleason - Published 2020

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Mystery/Crime

In this entertaining third entry in the Lincoln’s White House Mystery series, Gleason takes readers on a romp through Civil War-era Washington, ...Read Review

The Lost Outlaw (Jack Lark, Book 8)

By Paul Fraser Collard - Published 2019

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Adventure

Louisiana, 1863. Jack Lark has fought on both sides of the Civil War. Sickened by what he sees as the futile and pointless slaughter ...Read Review

Stage Dreams

By Melanie Gillman - Published 2019

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Children/Young AdultWestern

History is written by the rule makers, but sometimes the rules are wrong. Author and artist Melanie Gillman works to right those wrongs ...Read Review

The Roll of the Drums (The Amish of Weaver’s Creek Book #2)

By Jan Drexler - Published 2019

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InspirationalRomance

Weaver’s Creek, Ohio, seems far from the civil war that devastates many families across the country in 1863. Yet even the Amish people ...Read Review