US Civil War
Carolina Built
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Carolina Built is the nearly forgotten story of entrepreneur Josephine Leary and her desire and perseverance to create a life of her own. ...Read Review
Stolen: Civil War Series, Volume 1
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In 1860, thirteen-year-old Amaranda “Ama” Van der Peyser, a student at the Female Seminary in Troy, New York, learns some horrifying news: Carl and ...Read Review
John Brown’s Women
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Abolitionist John Brown’s remarkable life and family are vividly explored through the eyes of three women: his wife, Mary; his daughter-in-law, Wealthy; ...Read Review
The Physician’s Daughter
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Massachusetts, 1865, and Vita, daughter of a country doctor, wants to study medicine, but her father forbids it. Instead, he demands that she marry ...Read Review
Moon and the Mars
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This expansive novel follows the adventures of Theodora Brigid “Theo” Brook, a poor, half-Black, half-Irish orphan growing up in Five Points in lower ...Read Review
Booth
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This is not a novel about John Wilkes Booth. In her author’s note at the beginning of the book, Fowler makes clear ...Read Review
Dovetails in Tall Grass
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The personal stories of two young women representing clashing cultures, white settlers and Native Americans, are told in two viewpoints. We meet Emma ...Read Review
An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd
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Michael Burlingame, author of the two-volume biography Abraham Lincoln: A Life, turns his attention to Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. Burlingame is ...Read Review
So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix (Remixed Classics, 2)
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Late in the American Civil War, Meg, Joanna, Bethlehem, and Amethyst March, four young women on the cusp of adulthood, face an uncertain ...Read Review
When the Missouri Ran Red: A Novel of the Civil War
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In 1864, the entire American nation seems to be bleeding. Arguably, however, the state of Missouri seems to be suffering even more than the ...Read Review
