US Civil War
When the Mountains Wept (West Virginia: Born of Rebellion’s Storm 1)
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Augusta “Gus” Dabney made a promise to her Mama to look after the family. Her dreams of having a family of her own ...Read Review
Measure of Devotion
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At the onset of the American Civil War, Susannah Shelburne’s agrarian family life in South Carolina is torn apart when son Francis ...Read Review
How to Dodge a Cannonball
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Anders joins the Union Army as a flag twirler to escape his abusive mother but finds that that sort of career gets you ...Read Review
Tough Luck
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The Civil War has been raging for two years by 1863, when Haidie and Boots’ mother dies of grief, never having recovered from their ...Read Review
The Country Under Heaven
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Ovid Vesper has made it through the Civil War alive, but not unscathed. Living a peripatetic existence, he moves from one town to ...Read Review
Freedom at Dawn: Robert Smalls’ Voyage Out of Slavery
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
1862. Lizzie Smalls knows her father is the best boat pilot in South Carolina, but being enslaved, he isn’t given that title. The ...Read Review
That Which Binds Us
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The debut novel from Cathy Rigg comes with fine polish and skill, spun across five characters in the approach to, endurance through, and ...Read Review
Notes from a Deserter: A Soldier’s Journey Home
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AdventureMilitaryShort Stories
In 1862, Pennsylvania farmer William Henry Howe enlists in the Union Army. He’s sure that the war will end in months and he’...Read Review
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined
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1860s, United States. Mark Twain was not an accurate storyteller. In their old age, Big Jim and Huckleberry Finn recount to Jim’s ...Read Review
Junie
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The narrative voice in Junie sounds so assured that you wouldn’t realize it was a debut. The title character, just sixteen in 1860, ...Read Review
