Colonial America
When Royal Heads Are Hunted
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In 1566, a Spanish ship sighted off the coast of southwest Florida by the native Calusa people sets off a series of unfolding and ...Read Review
A Storm Coming
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Set in the coastal plains of the British colony of North Carolina from 1710 to 1712, Chuck Locklear’s novel is based on historical Native ...Read Review
Evangeline’s Journey
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetry largely fell out of high school curricula long ago, but his poem “Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie” has ...Read Review
Tethered Spirits
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In 1750s Nova Scotia, the British and French fight for North American dominance while the indigenous Mi’kmaq are pushed off their native ...Read Review
The Lost Seigneur: A Chateau Laux Odyssey
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In this complex and beautifully written novel that takes place in both colonial America and southwestern France, David Loux explores the meaning of ...Read Review
Passion’s Duty: Romance and the American Ranger, Book One
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Set in the New York Colony in 1755, amid the French and Indian War, Passion’s Duty places its romance firmly within a landscape ...Read Review
Anneke Jans in the New World
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Anneke Jans arrives in the New World from Europe in 1630 with her husband Roelof and their children. They are part of a group ...Read Review
Salt People of the Cloud Houses: The Story of Sarah Rapalje and Dutch Manhattan
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Doyle’s debut is a fine introduction to the life and times of a lesser-known American foremother: Sarah Rapalje (1625-85), considered the first ...Read Review
Dark Sisters
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A visceral tour de force told from multiple viewpoints, Kristi DeMeester’s Dark Sisters combines horror and historical fiction to blood-chilling effect. Set ...Read Review
I Am Jayvyn
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Circa 1710: Jayvyn is a 12-year-old African boy who is preparing for his manhood rites and farming the family’s rice fields when slave ...Read Review
