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New England, 1643. In a walled English village crouched at the edge of a wilderness believed to be haunted by monsters and devil-worshipping savages, Will Poole chafes against the constraints of Puritan society and is visited by strange hallucinations that fill him with unease. Hunting in the forest, he encounters Squamiset, an enigmatic native elder whose influence will open the door to possibilities well beyond the narrow existence his upbringing...
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Set near and on Lake Ontario in the 1750s, The Pathfinder is chronologically the third installation of James Fenimore Cooper's gripping Leatherstocking Tales. While the French Indian War rages on, Mabel, a nineteen-year-old young woman, is travelling to see her father, Sergeant Thomas Dunham. Accompanied by her uncle and two Native Americans, Smashing Arrows and June Dew, Mabel treks through the dense forests of upstate New York, towards her father's...
3) The prairie
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Taking place just a few years after the Louisiana Purchase, The Prairie follows Ishmael and Esther Bush as they travel west from the Mississippi River with their fourteen children, Ellen Wade, a doctor, and Esther's brother. While searching for a place to camp, the group meets Natty Bumppo, a legendary man now in his late eighties. Referred to as "the trapper" Natty helps the family settle somewhere safe. Later, as he roams through the forest, he...
4) Croatoan
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I am an ardent student of American history, as a matter of fact, that most colonists came here chasing a dream or more strongly we came chasing the essence of love, either in search of or escape from. This, then begs a closer examination of what this term "love" truly is. If we take the Biblical description of "love", which is probably what most colonists had for reference, then we find Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not...
5) The Pioneers
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Set in 1793 and 1794, The Pioneers tracks the changes of a small town called Templeton, built on the advancing frontier of New York. Natty Bumppo, a hero raised by Native Americans, lives in a cabin, secluded in a forest near Templeton. As the Christmas Eve snow falls, Natty, more commonly known as Leatherstocking, embarks on a tense hunt for a deer. As he tracks the deer down, he runs into Judge Marmaduke Temple, the man who founded the town of Temple....
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Maryland, 1776Prosper Creale has enough to deal with in wrenching enough out of his farm to keep his family fed and healthy in the face of the disruptions of the American Revolution. Then God speaks to him, and the radical teachings of a traveling preacher lead him to join in the nascent abolitionist movement, a path that could lead to destruction… or salvation. The Word takes us to Maryland as part of the Tales From a Revolution series, in which...
7) The Spy
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As tension begins to grow in America during the revolution, Mr. Wharton, a British sympathizer, moves his family to his county estate named "The Locusts," with the intention to avoid any political conflict. Located in Westchester County, New York, the area was considered a common ground for patriots and loyalists. However, action starts to stir in the neutral town when an enigmatic man shows up at Mr. Wharton's home. Hoping for shelter from the severe...
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Set during the Golden Age of Pirates and the shadowy aftermath of the Salem witch trials, this vivid literary debut is inspired by the captivating true story of real-life pirate Samuel Bellamy, combining high seas adventure, star-crossed longing, surprisingly timely questions about social justice and freedom, and the emotionally satisfying tale of one strong-willed young woman determined to choose her own path…
1715, Eastham, Massachusetts: As...
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La isla de Guadalupe en los años cuarenta podía ser un lugar paradisíaco, con el mar tan azul, el bullicio de las calles, su olor a especias, azúcar y ron, pero también el escenario de la discriminación racial, la miseria y la inevitable emigración a la metrópoli. A través de los recuerdos de los personajes, Bulle reconstruye una historia familiar ligada al pasado colonial y protagonizada por mujeres fuertes e independientes.
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Jem and Kisis were found guilty and sentenced. Jem would have to spend five years in the Royal Navy rather than spend five years in jail. Would he stay alive from the cruel life aboard a Man Of War? Kisis, free as a native Chowanoc, would become an indentured servant to pay off the debt for the destruction they were accused of. Would she be able to serve the family whose son caused the destruction they were found guilty of? Would their love last apart...
11) Marike's World
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Just as Marike takes her first adult steps toward love and independence, her lover is called away to take up arms against the British. Soon she finds the blissful life she had envisioned for herself dashed and she must use her wits and inner strength to find her way. Set against the backdrop of revolutionary era New York, Rae's ninth novel brings this period to vivid and thrilling life.
12) American Pioneer
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James Grant was an early pioneer within America. His life story is set within the context of a rapidly changing society in the second half of the 19th century. In that period slavery was rampant; huge numbers of new immigrants continued to arrive from Europe; people began to travel into the vast interior, which opened the west; a brutal civil war ravaged the country; railroads were established nationwide; financial depression hindered growth; and...
13) Till I Come Home
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Nominated for the Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing
Awarded 5-Stars from Readers' Favorite
Boston, 1763 the Seven Year war is ending, but what Eliza doesn't know is a new war is coming, a conflict that could threaten everything and everyone she loves. Come on this journey with her as she tries to find her way in this rapidly changing world of war and intrigue which tests her loyalty and love. Can she protect her family while...
14) Jack
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Sixteen year old Jenny Dolf hates being a girl. She resents the restrictions on her life, and she just feels wrong, and trapped, in her female's body. When the Revolution breaks out, she takes her father's musket and poses as a boy named Jack, to join George Washington's army on the heights of Long Island. From the first terrible losses, to the great victory at Trenton, in savage battles and long hard marches, Jack learns the value, and the cost,...
15) If Ever in Love
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Camden, South Carolina 1783 Colonial Captain Harry Fleming wears his passions like badges of honor, a man considered by most as smart, decisive...even impulsive. With the Patriot victory and his fighting days behind him, his homecoming sours when he discovers his homestead in shambles and childhood sweetheart married to his cousin. Most comfortable in breeches and with her trusty hound by her side, Olivia Parr is a half-white/half-native healer...a...
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HISTORICAL FICTIONSeven Names: Life in California before Statehood: 1818-1849A body appeared on the beach in Monterey Bay, in 1837, with nary a vessel in sight nor debris from a wreck. The near-drowned man was Dr. Edward Turner Bale, an Englishman. Despite a mysterious and hidden past, Dr. Bale was hired by General Mariano G. Vallejo as the Medical Examiner for the Mexican Army.General Vallejo's much-loved niece, Maria Ignacia, wished for a new and...
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Not every immigrant sailed willingly to America...Ivy O'Neill's idyllic childhood ends in disaster in 1690 when red-coated soldiers cross the Celtic Sea to invade Ireland. While the O'Neill family struggles to survive on the Irish coast, George Stokely is building a life in the British Colony of Maryland. All he needs to make his Chesapeake tobacco farm thrive is more help. The Indenture of Ivy O'Neill is an immersive story of courage, the meaning...
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Balmes es un músico desfigurado que vaga por las calles virreinales del siglo XVIII, donde una noche conoce a Ligia María, una hermosa muchacha que se vende a los marineros, para enfrentarse a la propia inquisición en defensa de su amor y búsqueda de su destino. Novela histórica con atisbos amorosos y góticos. Es, a decir de la crítica especializada, una novela redonda, clásica, de gran fractura y belleza.
19) Honest Ogden
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Through his struggles before, during, and after the Revolutionary War, the well-respected Judge Ogden of the highly regarded Ogden family had to resolve differences, both in his outward appearance and inside of his head. Trying to be balanced in judging his response to the Stamp Act and leaving his high position in the New Jersey Legislature gave him pause to his usefulness in the oncoming war. Detached from his cherished church and removed from the...
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Twelve-year-old Maggie Diele is on, the adventure of a lifetime. Traveling to newly acquired Kentucky, Maggie and her family embark on a trek through the Appalachian Mountains to the Cumberland Gap. There, her family, and others like them will follow Daniel Boone through the Gap to the dangerous settlement of Boonesborough in 1776. The country is in turmoil as the Revolutionary War begins.
The newly arrived settlers find the area rugged and prone...
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