US Civil War
The Jackal’s Mistress
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Skirmishes and battles plague Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley during America’s Civil War, with the same territory changing hands numerous times. Libby Steadman’...Read Review
The Unexpected Diva
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An extraordinary tale of Eliza Taylor Greenfield’s rise, in the years before the Civil War, from a plantation in Natchez to international ...Read Review
Cousins in the Time of Magic
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In the current-day United States, history-loving and sometimes eccentric Tía Xia is the aunt of three young cousins, Camila, Siggy, and Jorge. ...Read Review
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
