US Civil War
The American Daughters
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Enslaved on John du Marche’s plantation in the years before the Civil War, Ady and her mother, Sanite, survive inhumane treatment through ...Read Review
The Birds of Dog: An Historical Novel Based on Mostly True Events
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“The sun was out, and the sciences were popping!” In a modified epistolary format, Parson recounts three related stories, connected by narrator, place, ...Read Review
Daughters of Chaos
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Set in Nashville during the Civil War, this work of magical realism (or “a braided alternate history,” as the author calls it) combines ...Read Review
The Lost Women of Mill Street
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Set during the American Civil War, The Lost Women of Mill Street is the story of two sisters displaced from their work in ...Read Review
Rebel Falls
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In the latter stages of the Civil War, the Confederacy wanted to disrupt the northern border of the United States in the hopes ...Read Review
The Widow Spy
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Campisi’s premise is quite intriguing and based on a real situation: Kate Warne, Pinkerton’s first female detective and a Union spy, ...Read Review
The American Queen
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1865: Enslaved twenty-four-year-old Louella yearns for freedom. The selling of her mother which wrenched her family apart, the horrific lynching of her father, and ...Read Review
Unspoken (UK) / An American Story (US)
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Kwame Alexander is celebrated for his contemporary verse novels that explore the feelings of Black boys, their family relationships and friendships, and love ...Read Review
Reclaiming Mni Sota: An Alternate History of the U.S. – Dakota War of 1862
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In 1862, the Ojibwe and Dakota tribes of what is now Minnesota were being forced off their land despite solemn treaties with the U....Read Review
When the Jessamine Grows
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While most people know our nation was divided during the Civil War, very little has been written about Southerners who fervently desired to ...Read Review
