Early United States

Follow the Stars Home

By Diane C. McPhail - Published 2024

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The first steamboat to traverse the Mississippi River in 1811 is the unique setting for this compelling novel of a momentous journey. It narrates ...Read Review

Butcher

By Joyce Carol Oates - Published 2024

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Literary

One of America’s most prolific authors returns with a harrowing tale of a demented “doctor” who preys upon women neglected by the ...Read Review

West of Santillane

By Brook Allen - Published 2024

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In the early years of the 19th century, sheltered Virginia planter’s daughter Julia Hancock is delighted when Captain William Clark of the ...Read Review

The Honey Tree

By Jo Sparkes - Published 2023

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1850. Preacher is a runaway slave, determined to make it all the way to Canada. Following the stars, he makes his way north from ...Read Review

Saved by the Matchmaker (A Shanahan Match)

By Jody Hedlund - Published 2024

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Inspirational Romance

Part 2 of the Shanahan Match series. In 1849 St. Louis, a pregnant Enya Shanahan has run home from a failed marriage. To protect their ...Read Review

When the Grass Is Rising: A Portrait of Young Sam Houston

By Rose Gonsoulin - Published 2023

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Biographical Fiction

Rose Gonsoulin depicts the early life of the iconic Texan, Sam Houston, in 1805. Gonsoulin reveals the venturing soul in Sam “Kahunah” Houston, as ...Read Review

All We Were Promised

By Ashton Lattimore - Published 2024

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Lattimore’s debut exudes originality in its characters, plot situations, and especially in its well-chosen setting of 1830s Philadelphia, “the self-proclaimed cradle of ...Read Review

The Voyageur

By Paul Carlucci - Published 2024

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Literary

Lower Canada (modern Quebec), 1830. Carrying supplies to Fort William (now Thunder Bay) to trade for furs, members of the voyageur (French-Canadian fur traders) ...Read Review

Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West

By Bob Drury - By Tom Clavin - Published 2024

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AdventureNonfictionWestern

Jed Smith and guide Thomas Fitzpatrick are searching for water. It is May 1831, and the wagon train they are leading is desperate: water ...Read Review

Followed by the Lark

By Helen Humphreys - Published 2024

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Biographical FictionLiterary

The imagined interior life of renowned American naturalist Henry David Thoreau blossoms in this lyrical exploration of his world from childhood to his ...Read Review

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