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The Hamilton affair: a novel
Par Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth Cobbs. 2016
Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler are firebrands in different parts of the world until they are brought together during the…
American Revolution. They both work for freedom and deeply love one another, despite challenges from both outside and inside their marriage. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2016Two slave rebellions at sea: "The Heroic Slave" by Frederick Douglass and "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville
Par George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick. 2000
Two short stories about slave mutinies on the high seas: Frederick Douglass's 1853 "The Heroic Slave" and Herman Melville's 1855…
"Benito Cereno." Includes excerpts from A Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the 1817 memoir of Amasa Delano--the real-life captain in Melville's tale. Some violence. 2000Revolutionary
Par Alex Myers. 2014
In the latter days of the American Revolution, former indentured servant Deborah Samson runs away from home. Seeing no future…
for herself as a single woman, she disguises herself as a man and joins the army. She must deal with her dual identities. Violence. 2014Nostalgia: A Novel
Par Dennis McFarland. 2013
1864. Deserted by his comrades, Union soldier Summerfield Hayes struggles to survive in the woods after being wounded in battle.…
His thoughts turn to his pre-enlistment life with his sister in Brooklyn. Once rescued, he is sent to a hospital in Washington, where Walt Whitman befriends him. Violence. 2013Exiled!: from tragedy to triumph on the Missouri frontier
Par Louise A. Jackson. 2016
1837. Due to a traumatic incident, her parents decide that Ruthy Donovan has to be sent away for a while.…
They send her to live with cousin Nathan in Southwest Missouri. She goes with a family she doesn t know, by wagon train, to live with a cousin she s never met. Along the way she learns how to become independent and self-sufficient. For grades 6-9Indiana gothic: a novel of adultery and murder in an American family
Par Pope Brock. 1999
Journalist Pope Brock grew up ignorant of his family's most closely guarded secret. It was only when his great-aunt was…
dying that he learned the true circumstances surrounding the death of his great-grandfather Ham Dillon. An aspiring young Indiana politician, Dillon was shot to death in 1908 by his own brother-in-law, Link Hale -- a man half-crazed with anger and grief over the fact that his wife, Allie, had just borne Ham a child. To add another twist, Allie Hale was more than just Ham Dillon's lover; she was also his wife's only sister. In "Indiana Gothic", he tells the story of Ham Dillon with the sweep and power of a novel, re-creating the era in such vivid detail that we have the sensation of time travelRaiders: A Novel
Par William B. McCloskey. 2013
Twenty years after his greenhorn days in William McCloskey's bestselling novel Highliners, Hank Crawford stands tall as a respected fishing…
captain in Kodiak, Alaska. Set amongst the tumult of the early 1980s, Raiders follows the struggles of the Alaskan fishermen as they regain control of their fishing grounds from the fleets of foreign companies that have been plundering their bays. But such companies aren't deterred and instead contract American boats to catch the fish for them. To keep his family afloat, Hank signs on with a Japanese firm and ends up shunned as a traitor by his peers. But when Hank begins to suspect that his new employers are playing a political game with him as the pawn, he must confront the possibility that to find redemption, he may have to sacrifice all he has. UnratedThe belle of Two Arbors
Par Paul R Dimond, Paul Dimond. 2017
Belle writes poetry as she grows up in northern Michigan and attends college in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She struggles with…
the challenges of living in two very different towns throughout the twentieth century. 2017An ordinary woman: a dramatized biography of Nancy Kelsey
Par Cecelia Holland. 2001
A fictional rendering of the story of 18-year-old Nancy Kelsey who traveled to California in 1841 by wagon and horseback…
with her young husband, infant daughter and small group of friends and family. They accomplished this seemingly impossible feat crossing trackless wilderness, a desert and two mountain ranges without maps, guides or even a trail. 1999Serafina's stories
Par Rudolfo Anaya, Rudolfo A Anaya. 2004
The double cross (The Spanish Brand #1)
Par Carla Kelly. 2013
The year is 1780 and Marco Mondragon is a brand inspector in the royal Spanish colony of New Mexico, near…
the domain of the fierce Comanche. Paloma Vega is under the thumb of relatives who might have stolen a brand belonging to Paloma's parents, dead in a Comanche raid. As a brand inspector, Marco has every right to be suspicious of brand thieves. If Marco has anything to do with it, Paloma's fortunes are about to change. Contains some descriptions of sex and violenceLiving on Sisu: the 1913 Union Copper Strike tragedy
Par Deborah K. Frontiera. 2009
Presented as fictional journal entries, 12-year-old Emma Niemi relates the events surrounding the copper mining strike of 1913 in Houghton…
and Keweenaw Counties of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the Italian Hall fire on Christmas Eve. For junior and senior high readers. 2009The praise singer
Par Mary Renault. 1988
Greece, sixth century B.C. Historical novel centers on the life of the poet Simonides and the court of the Pisistratids.…
When the court eventually falls from power, Simonides survives the upheaval and retires to Sicily, where he looks back over his long and eventful life. 1978Saint Patrick's Battalion: A Novel
Par James Alexander Thom. 2006
Private John Riley and scores of fellow Catholic immigrants desert the army and defect to the Mexican side during the…
1846 war. Camp boy Padraic Quinn keeps a diary recalling the prejudice and abuse they suffered at the hands of Protestant officers--and the resulting mutiny. Violence and strong language. 2006Paradise Alley: a novel
Par Kevin Baker. 2002
In the waterfront slums of New York City in 1863, three working-class women wait out riots against a military draft…
decree. Recreates the Irish experience and racial tensions of Civil War-era New York. Sequel to Dreamland (DB 50727). Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2002The president's lady: a novel about Rachel and Andrew Jackson
Par Irving Stone. 1996
Rachel Donelson Robards first meets lawyer Andrew Jackson when she is separated from her abusive husband, Lewis. After they fall…
in love they travel to the Spanish territories to obtain her divorce in order to marry. When war hero Jackson later ventures into politics, his wife's scandalous past creates a crisis. 1951Celia Garth: a story of Charleston in the Revolution
Par Gwen Bristow. 1999
Twenty-year-old Celia Garth is a dressmaker in Charleston, South Carolina, when the Revolutionary War breaks out. She sides with the…
patriots, helping Francis Marion by providing him with information obtained from her Tory customers. 1959. 1959Poems and other writings
Par Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy. 2000
Collection of 127 poems and 15 translations of poems published by the nineteenth-century American poet during his lifetime, selections from…
unpublished manuscripts, the novella Kavanagh, a Tale, and three essays. Includes "Evangeline," "The Song of Hiawatha," "The Courtship of Miles Standish," and selections from Tales of a Wayside Inn. 2000When the Parkway came
Par Anne Mitchell Whisnant, Anne M. Whisnant, David E. Whisnant. 2010
A grandfather tells his granddaughter the story of the building of the Blue Ridge Parkway, which he experienced firsthand as…
a boy growing up on a farm in western North Carolina during the Depression. For grades 3-6 and older interested readersGringo viejo (Colección Tierra firme)
Par Carlos Fuentes. 1990
El viejo gringo es un amargado periodista estadounidense, que ha cortado abruptamente con su pasado y ahora cabalga hacia México…
para unirse al ejército revolucionario de Pancho Villa. Existen pistas que indican que, si a este hombre se le fuera alguna vez a poner nombre, probaría ser Ambrose Bierce, quien se esfumó en México in 1913