Phyllis T. Smith
Song Yet Sung
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Written by the author of the bestselling memoir The Color of Water, this novel is set in the 1850s. Liz, a runaway slave, ...Read Review
A Slave No More: Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
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John Washington, a 24-year-old Virginia slave, escaped to Union army lines in 1862. Seventeen-year-old Wallace Turnage ran away five times from an Alabama plantation, ...Read Review
God of Luck
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God of Luck is a historical novel set against the backdrop of the trade in Chinese laborers, kidnapped and sold to the guano ...Read Review
Journey to San Jacinto
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Book Two in the Mr. Barrington’s Mysterious Trunk series opens when Hannah, a seventh grader, and her brother, Nick, return from a ...Read Review
The Fall of Rome
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Attila is dead. The Western Roman Empire is tottering. As every source of order crumbles, life, already brutish and short, is becoming more ...Read Review
What this Cruel War was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
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No one can go back in time, conduct an opinion poll, and ask Civil War soldiers why they fought. Chandra Manning has done ...Read Review
Four Girls from Berlin
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When the author was small, a rabbi who had survived the Holocaust told her, “In you has your whole family been redeemed.” Meyerhoff’...Read Review
