Historical - Civil War Era
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The Rice Birds
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1849, twin sisters fleeing Ireland’s famine arrive at New York’s seaport. Only one – Nora – is allowed to get on the boat to South Carolina to fulfill her work contract. On her master’s vast rice p
- Author: Keane Carter, Lindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: February 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1929647689
- Language: English
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Black Cloud Rising
$17.00 Add to cartAlready excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bon… [more below]
- Author: Falade, David Wright
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160395
- Language: English
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The Emigrants: The Emigrant Novels: Book I
$27.95 Add to cartConsidered one of Sweden’s greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigr… [more below]
- Series: Emigrant Novels #01
- Author: Moberg, Vilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0873513193
- Language: English
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Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind
$23.99 Add to cartDiscover the phenomenal #1 bestselling sequel to Gone With the Wind: “true to Scarlett’s spirit,” this inventive novel beautifully continues Margaret Mitchell’s timeless tale (Chicago Tribune).
The mos… [more below]- Author: Ripley, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: September 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0446502375
- Language: English
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The Ice Harp
$17.99 Add to cartRalph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldier’s unjust arrest
In 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sage of Concord has lost his words. Beset by aphasia
- Series: American Novels
- Author: Lock, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1954276176
- Language: English
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The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft
$19.99 Add to cartLonglisted, Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book 2023
“Beautifully written, compulsively readable… ” So says Indie Reader of The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft – the riveting novel about a legendary woman in an
- Author: Dempsey, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 0990696472
- Language: English
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The Last Laird of Sapelo
$21.95 Add to cartThe Last Laird of Sapelo is based on the tragic story of Randolph Spalding, the youngest son of Georgia’s most well-known antebellum-era coastal planter and influential political figure, Thomas Spaldi
- Author: Brown, T. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888240427
- Language: English
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Marmee
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Caroline, a revealing retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved Little Women, from the perspective of Margaret “Marmee” March, about the larger real-world challenges behind the cozy
- Author: Miller, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 006304188X
- Language: English
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The Stockwell Letters
$17.95 Read moreSet in the 1850s, The Stockwell Letters is based on the true story of a high-profile runaway slave and the bold women who dared to help him, even when it meant defying their husbands, male abolitionis… [more below]
- Author: Friedland, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1684632145
- Language: English
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The Bereaved
$18.00 Add to cartBased on her research into her grandfather’s past as an adopted child, Julia Park Tracey has created a mesmerizing work of historical fiction illuminating the darkest side of the Orphan Train.
In 1859,
- Author: Park Tracey, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: August 8, 2023
- ISBN10: 1736795422
- Language: English
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Train Dreams: A Novella
$17.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book for 2011
From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes T
One of The Economist‘s 2011 Books of the Year
One of NPR’s 10 Best Novels of 2011- Author: Johnson, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 22, 2012
- ISBN10: 1250007658
- Language: English
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The Widow of the South
$19.99 Add to cartBased on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman’s journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war.
This debut novel is based on the true story of Car… [more below]- Author: Hicks, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0446697435
- Language: English
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A River Between Us
$15.99 Add to cartCora Mae Stewart’s world collapses when Sherman destroys the Georgia cotton mill where she works and has her arrested for treason and sent North. Faced with impossible choices, she does what she must
- Author: Green, Jocelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1625862555
- Language: English
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When the Jessamine Grows: A Captivating Historical Novel Perfect for Book Clubs
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the author of The Saints of Swallow Hill, an evocative, morally complex novel set in rural 19th century North Carolina, as one woman fights to keep her family united, her farm running, and her co… [more below]
- Author: Everhart, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 149674070X
- Language: English
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Horse
$30.00 Add to cart“Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Horse isn’t just an animal story–it’s a moving narrative about race and art.” —TIME
“A thrilling- Author: Brooks, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 21, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593556488
- Language: English
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The House of Lincoln
$27.99 Read moreAn unprecedented view of Lincoln’s Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank.
Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a
- Author: Horan, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 172826054X
- Language: English
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Brighter Than Her Fears
$25.32 Add to cartThe 19th century women’s rights movement and the rise of public education intertwine with one woman’s story of struggle, perseverance, and love.
When her father dies and the family inn falls to ruin in
- Author: Ard, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1956183140
- Language: English
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Booth
$18.00 Add to cartBest Book of the Year
Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ou
Real Simple – AARP – USA Today – NPR – Virginia Living- Author: Fowler, Karen Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593331451
- Language: English
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Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War
$10.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels
In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great- Series: Civil War Trilogy #1
- Author: Shaara, Jeff
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0345422473
- Language: English
