Early United States
The Wreckage of Eden
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Robert Winter presides over the wreckage of the Eden given to white European settlers as Manifest Destiny in the first part of the 19...Read Review
Benjamin Franklin and the Quaker Murders
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Captain James Jamison, a Revolutionary War veteran, is summoned one evening in 1785 to the home of Benjamin Franklin. A recent murder in Philadelphia ...Read Review
Mad Boy
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Poor Henry Phipps is a young boy whose mother is accidentally killed when the roof of their hovel falls in upon her. He ...Read Review
West
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This slim volume houses a simple “journey” plot within an incredibly nuanced presentation. Sometime after the Lewis and Clark Expedition, widower Cyrus Bellman ...Read Review
Cirque
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In 1851, Bernadette McCoy meets her end at the paws of her seven cats, or so it appears. The fact that her niece Angelique ...Read Review
Trouble the Water
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Charleston, South Carolina, is a colorful place in 1845: a bustling harbor, beautiful flowers and orchards, young women in bright dresses. What strikes teenager ...Read Review
The Long Shadow
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This is book one of the Winds of Freedom series. It is March 1850 in northeastern Vermont, and teenaged Alice Sanborn works hard helping ...Read Review
A Reckoning
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In Spalding’s excellent fifth novel (after The Purchase, 2013), John, a white man, and Bry, a black man, struggle with the onus of ...Read Review
Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru
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Philadelphia, 1844: The City of Brotherly Love is not so loving in 1844 as nativist Americans foment unrest against Irish Catholic immigrants. Despite this, Edgar ...Read Review
The Believers in the Crucible Nauvoo
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The first few decades of the 19th century were turbulent. In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, the global economy contracted, and the ...Read Review
