US Civil War
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
The Door of No Return
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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
The General and Julia
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In the author’s note, Clinch asserts: “We understand the hearts and minds of our loved ones not by the use of some ...Read Review
Crow Mary
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Crow Mary is based on the life of Goes First, a Crow chief’s daughter. Her story begins in 1863 as a young girl ...Read Review
Queen of the Union
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This novel, Book 2 of the Queen of the West trilogy, is set in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the brink of the Civil War in 1855. ...Read Review
The Burning Land (The Overstreet Saga)
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Henry Overstreet and Katie Nash fall in love in the small town of Waldoboro, Maine, during the American Civil War. When Henry decides ...Read Review
The House of Lincoln
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Nancy Horan, best-selling author of Loving Frank, offers a captivatingly sweeping historical novel centered on Abraham Lincoln, 19th-century Springfield, Illinois, and early American ...Read Review