Norton
The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
The inhabitants of Threestep, Georgia didn’t just gain a schoolteacher when Miss Grace Spivey arrives in town in August 1938.…
Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
Eric Jay Dolin offers an exciting saga of ambition, passion, violence, and greed concerning the role that the fur from…
Corrag
Editors' choice
Sometimes you start reading a book, and while you know it’s good, suddenly it will dawn on you that it’s…
The History of White People
This ambitious non-fiction book could have been called “A History of the Idea of White People,” since that’s what it’s…
American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America
Ninety-three-year-old Yale professor Edmund Morgan is one of the finest historians the United States has ever produced. A Colonial and…
Original Sins: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom
Grace Pollocke is an artist; she paints portraits in miniature. Her husband arrives home to Philadelphia after being in China…
COVENTRY
I must confess, I am a great fan of Helen Humphreys’ novels. Coventry, an extremely vivid and moving book, just…
Coventry
I must confess, I am a great fan of Helen Humphreys’ novels. Coventry, an extremely vivid and moving book, just…
Jacob’s Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the Civil War
The American Civil War has always served as an irresistible magnet for fictional accounts of families struggling with questions of…
A Quiet Adjustment
In this deft and powerfully emotional novel set in early 19th-centuryEngland, Benjamin Markovits portrays Annabella Milbanke, the wife of the…
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