Early United States

Lidie: The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel

By Jane Smiley - Published 2026

Genres:

Literary

This sequel to Smiley’s The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998) opens over Christmas 1857 in Lidie’s hometown of Quincy, Illinois. ...Read Review

The Widow Hamilton: An Eliza Hamilton Mystery

By Mollie Ann Cox - Published 2026

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

As fans of the Broadway musical know, Eliza Schuyler Hamilton lived fifty years after her husband’s tragically early death. Over those decades, ...Read Review

What Came West

By Josh Weil - Published 2026

Genres:

LiteraryWestern

This novel, complete with illustrations of flora and fauna, is an interesting contribution to the literature on the American West. In the 1840s ...Read Review

The Foursome

By Christina Baker Kline - Published 2026

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Christina Baker Kline dips into her own family history for The Foursome, a compelling novel based on the true story of two North ...Read Review

The Mysterious Lopsided Letter (Liberty Clubhouse, 1)

By Ellen Schwartz - By Margeaux Lucas (illus.) - Published 2026

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

In 1785 Boston, Catherine Hays, her cousin Judah , and their friend Joseph Revere, son of Paul Revere, play together in the clubhouse in the ...Read Review

Unfamiliar Territory

By Mary Smathers - Published 2025

Genres:

Reinvention is the name of the game in Smathers’ fabulous epic of Gold Rush California, which sees her heroine, Juanita Castro de la ...Read Review

Trudy’s Awakening

By Carolyn Newton Curry - Published 2025

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The title character of this fictional biography is Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, a wealthy Georgia belle and post-Civil War activist who supported the ...Read Review

Shadows Of The Republic: A Sentinel Order Novel

By Randall R Reese - Published 2025

Genres:

Thriller

Pennsylvania, 1791. Whiskey is an important commodity to farmers in young America. It is more than just a drink or a medicine. It is ...Read Review

Needle And Bone

By Tonya Mitchell - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this accomplished thriller set in Philadelphia in 1841, 17-year-old Annis Hargrave flees New York when she witnesses the brutal murder of a young ...Read Review

Bear Flag Revolt

By Robert Lee Murphy - Published 2025

Genres:

Western

Sixteen-year-old David Brennan is already a “Mountain Man” in 1845 after traveling west with famed explorer, Kit Carson and Captain John Frémont, “the ...Read Review