Colonial America
Nathalie: An Acadian’s Tale of Tragedy and Triumph
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1755 on the Bay of Fundy. Nathalie Belliveau is thirteen years old when the British army rounds up her entire Acadian village. When she ...Read Review
The Vaster Wilds
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This devastatingly beautiful meditation on nature, divinity, and survival is the second volume of a planned triptych begun last year with Groff’s ...Read Review
Gallows Hill
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Thomas Stillbrooke and Patience Woodstock, the two narrators and main characters of this novel, delineate the horrors of the colonial-era Salem witch trials ...Read Review
The Falcon, the Wolf, and the Hummingbird
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As storm clouds churn overhead, the unlikely leader of a group of seven Manatuck tribesmen keeps her eyes on a campfire in the ...Read Review
North Woods
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From the moment two forbidden lovers – the prospective wife of an abusive minister and a reported troublemaker she ironically met at church – flee ...Read Review
A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself
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In the early 1930s, Professor Marian Beresford discovers an unforgettable character in a manuscript of mysterious origin. Hannah Masury, writing from 200 years earlier, ...Read Review
Catharine, Queen of the Tumbling Waters
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This novel is a compelling narrative of Catharine Montour, a Métis (mixed French and Native heritage) woman who lived in Pennsylvania and ...Read Review
Trading Thomas: Jamestown’s Boy Interpreter
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In 1606, eleven-year-old Thomas Savage’s father announces he’s sailing from England to America to help establish a new colony named James Towne. ...Read Review
The East Indian
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The author, a Renaissance scholar, fills an important gap in colonial American history by allowing us to see 1630s Virginia through the eyes ...Read Review
Thunder of Guns (The Long Fuse)
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This is book seven in The Long Fuse series. In 1758, Pennsylvanian Ephraim Weber, 22, is an ensign in the British colonial army during the ...Read Review
