Harcourt
So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State
Culture wars are nothing new, as Church demonstrates ably in this study of the tenure of America’s first five presidents.…
The Bomb
This is not an easy book to read, although it is meant for teenagers. Taylor was present at Bikini Atoll…
A Slave No More: Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
John Washington, a 24-year-old Virginia slave, escaped to Union army lines in 1862. Seventeen-year-old Wallace Turnage ran away five times…
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
Sometime in the late 10th century, a woman journeyed far into the West, beyond the known horizon. She settled for…
The Ever-After Bird
At the recent HNS Conference, my suspicions were confirmed that the term “young adult” is now a pseudonym for “anything…
Mississippi Jack
Jacky Faber, the irrepressible Napoleonic-era street-urchin-turned-ship’s-boy-turned-fine-lady-turned pirate, is once again in the thick of trouble in this fifth installment of…
The Theory Of Clouds
Editors' choice
“All children become sad in the late afternoon, for they begin to comprehend the passage of time. The light starts…
Aaronsohn’s Maps: The Untold Story of the Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Middle East
Those critics who ridicule novelists for creating action heroes with talents and lives that transcend those of the average person…
The Dying Crapshooter’s Blues
David Fulmer’s 1920s Atlanta is a city torn by racial and class strife and patrolled by a poorly managed and…
Duchessina: A Novel of Catherine De’Medici
Carolyn Meyer’s “Young Royals” series offers its readers the opportunity to both learn and be entertained by history’s most fascinating…
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