Early United States
The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn
The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn, Lori Benton’s second novel, is set in the Appalachian Mountains in western North Carolina and…
In Pursuit
Joie Kinkaid is astounded to see Godfrey Winkel in a London café. Godfrey had sneered at the “half-breed” girl back…
The Homesman
Anyone who imagines that a homesteader’s life on America’s Great Plains was all “Little House on the Prairie” hasn’t tried…
The Daring Ladies of Lowell
Typifying the experiences of Lowell’s mill girls in the 1830s, Alice Barrow leaves her restricted farm life in New Hampshire,…
The Visionist
Editors' choice
Three strong and haunting voices tell this tale set mostly among the Shakers of Massachusetts in the 1840s. The first…
Road to Reckoning
Twelve-year-old Thomas Walker and his father leave the city of New York in the mid-1830s to sell Samuel Colt’s new…
The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd’s (The Secret Life of Bees) latest novel begins in early 19th- century Charleston, South Carolina, and follows…
A Union Not Blessed
In 1805, ex-Vice President Aaron Burr plots treason against the United States. The American Secret Service blackmails South American revolutionary,…
Love’s Awakening
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1822. In this second novel of the Ballantyne Legacy series, Ellie Ballantyne comes home from finishing school accompanied…
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
In his latest work, Grandin gives us a new look at New World slavery in the early 1800s. To do…
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