Colonial America

The Putnams of Salem: A Novel of Power and Betrayal During the Salem Witch Trials

By Greg Houle - Published 2024

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Houle takes the reader to a 17th-century New England village thrown into turmoil after witchcraft accusations were made by a circle of young ...Read Review

An Outbreak of Witchcraft: A Graphic Novel of the Salem Witch Trials

By Deborah Noyes - By M. Duffy (illus.) - Published 2024

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Children/Young Adult

The story of what took place in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1690s gets the graphic novel treatment in this visually arresting retelling. When ...Read Review

All the World Beside

By Garrard Conley - Published 2024

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Literary

Conley’s debut novel brings us to a small Massachusetts town—the symbolically-named Cana—while dramatizing an affair between two married Puritan men ...Read Review

An Etrog from Across the Sea

By Deborah Bodin Cohen - By Kerry Olitzky - By Stacey Dressen McQueen (illus.) - Published 2024

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Children/Young Adult

Young Leah and Aaron receive a letter from their Papa, who is sailing from Corsica to colonial New York. He promises to bring ...Read Review

1666: A Novel

By Lora Chilton - Published 2024

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1666 is a story that needs to be told, one of relentless brutality, but also one of hope. It is hope fulfilled, too, since ...Read Review

If the Tide Turns

By Rachel Rueckert - Published 2024

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Nautical

During a visit to Cape Cod, you would doubtless hear murmurs of Samuel (Black Sam) Bellamy and his winsome beauty, Maria (Mehitable) Brown. ...Read Review

For a Lifetime (Timeless)

By Gabrielle Meyer - Published 2024

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Inspirational RomanceTime-slip

In Meyer’s inspirational time-slip story, we meet twenty-four-year-old twins, Grace and Hope Eaton, who are time-crossers living in Salem in 1692. Their consciousness ...Read Review

The Wind from All Directions

By Ron Thompson - Published 2024

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In 1792, Captain George Vancouver is ordered by the British Admiralty to continue exploration of the Pacific Northwest. He is also charged with a ...Read Review

To Crown with Liberty

By Karen Ullo - Published 2024

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In 1795, Alix de Morainville Carpentier is haunted by the crumbling world she left behind. A former lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette, the ill-fated French ...Read Review

Pelican Girls

By Julia Malye - Published 2024

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Pelican Girls tells a vivid and potent story of women first discarded by society then sent as brides to shore up the floundering ...Read Review

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