US Civil War
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
And the River Ran Red: A Novel of the Massacre at Bear River
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Miller shines light on a sordid chapter of westward expansion in this fictionalized account of the U.S. Army’s 1863 massacre of as ...Read Review
Molly’s Song
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In December 1862, 18-year-old Molly O’Sullivan leaves County Galway, Ireland for New York City to find better opportunities. On the voyage over, dysentery ...Read Review
The Seeds of Change (Leah’s Garden)
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After storming out of church due to Deacon Wiesel’s infuriating sermon, and a few lucky hands of poker with that cheat Slade ...Read Review
Cartledge Creek
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Set during the years of the American Civil War (1861-1865), this tale chronicles the journey of the Dockery family as they negotiate these ...Read Review
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
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Born in 1871, the ninth surviving child to devout Methodist parents, he was said to read fluently by age four and drank his first ...Read Review
