Henry Holt
An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears
Many readers interested in Native American history may already know much about the infamous Trail of Tears suffered by the…
Velazquez and the Surrender of Breda: The Making of a Masterpiece
Diego Velazquez is perhaps best known for his rendering of one of the few Spanish victories during the long war…
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
Bill O’Reilly is one of the more well-known conservative media personalities of the contemporary American scene. As such, a large…
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
One of the negative side effects of the decline in newspaper readership is that fewer people are exposed to the…
Breaking Stalin’s Nose
Editors' choice
Ten-year-old Sasha wants nothing more than to become a member of the Young Pioneers – the corps of Soviet school…
Tides of War: A Novel of the Peninsular War
Set in Regency London and Spain 1812-1815, this novel recounts in short scenes, or vignettes, the key points in the…
Mothers & Daughters
This intergenerational novel focuses on three women: Violet, an eleven-year-old girl struggling to survive in turn-of-the-century New York; Iris, Violet’s…
The School of Night
Discredited Elizabethan scholar Henry Cavendish is tasked by a ruthless antiquities collector to recover a missing letter which was stolen…
Escape by Night
This generously illustrated early chapter book is set in Augusta, Georgia, in 1863. Young Tommy McKnight feels the effects of…
Ruby Red
Originally published in Germany in 2009, Ruby Red is the first in a trilogy about a rather odd family…
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