Chronological Period/1851-1899

  • The Midwife’s Touch

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    A rare gift determines one woman’s destiny in the breathtaking debut of a new trilogy from the international-bestselling author of the Ivory Carver Trilogy.

    At just six years old, it becomes clear th

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    • Author: Harrison, Sue
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 342
    • Publish Date: February 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1504082060
    • Language: English
  • Reclaiming Mni Sota: An Alternate History of the U.S. – Dakota War of 1862

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    Two cultures met in Minnesota-one striving to maintain its homeland and traditions, another trying to create a life of freedom, prosperity, and abundance.

    Samuel Copeland was just a teenager in 1859 w

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    • Author: Mustful, Colin
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 316
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1736499092
    • Language: English
  • The Ballad of Frankie Silver: A Ballad Novel

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    The New York Times Bestseller

    Set in the Appalachian wilderness and blending legends and folklore with high suspense, this stellar novel, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, is considered one of McCrumb’s c

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    • Series: Ballad Novels #5
    • Author: McCrumb, Sharyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: March 26 2013
    • ISBN10: 031238887X
    • Language: English
  • Buffalo Girls

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    A strange old woman caked in Montana mud pens a letter to her darling daughter back East–the writer’s name is Martha Jane, but her friends call her Calamity…

    I am the Wild West, no show about it. I

    • Author: McMurtry, Larry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: November 13, 2001
    • ISBN10: 0743216296
    • Language: English
  • Frog Music

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of Room, a young French burlesque dancer living in San Francisco is ready to risk anything in order to solve her friend’s murder–but only if the killer does

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    • Author: Donoghue, Emma
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: February 24 2015
    • ISBN10: 0316324671
    • Language: English
  • In Her Own Footsteps: Flora Ross and Her Struggle for Identity and Independence in the Colonial West

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    In the summer of 1859, British and American troops stood at the brink of war over a small island in the Pacific Northwest, each claiming sovereignty over the region in a military standoff that has bec

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    • Author: Richardson, D. J.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: September 15 2020
    • ISBN10: 1735297917
    • Language: English
  • Little Women

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    A restless tomboy with a wild imagination, Jo March bridles against societal conventions. She has no interest in becoming a lady; she will become a writer. Fortunately for Jo, her family supports her

    • Series: Signature Classics
    • Author: Alcott, Louisa May
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: June 06, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1435172639
    • Language: English
  • Thundering Courage: George Armstrong Custer, The Union Cavalry Boy Generals, and Justified Defiance at Gettysburg

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    “Promotions or a coffin!” To George Armstrong Custer, war is the Devil’s own fun. And his luck-“Custer Luck”-peaks during the Civil War, keeping him alive against all odds. Yet, for the first two year

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    • Author: Pierce, Terry C.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 652
    • Publish Date: October 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 1631070541
    • Language: English
  • Woe to Live on

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    Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, Woe to Live On explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes of young recruit Jake Roedel. Where he and his… [more below]

    • Author: Woodrell, Daniel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: June 19 2012
    • ISBN10: 0316206164
    • Language: English
  • Axel’s Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930

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    Published in 1931, Axel’s Castle was Edmund Wilson’s first book of literary criticism–a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six m

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    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Wilson, Edmund
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 15 2004
    • ISBN10: 0374529272
    • Language: English
  • Fortune’s Rocks

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    This magnificent novel transports readers to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the social orbit of a spirited young woman who falls into a passionate,[more below]

    • Author: Shreve, Anita
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: January 02 2001
    • ISBN10: 0316678104
    • Language: English
  • Things Past Telling

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    “This is a truly character-driven novel that explores how people define themselves, the creation of family and home, and the importance of memory and language. . . . Fans of historical epics won’t be

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    • Author: Williams, Sheila
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: February 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063097087
    • Language: English
  • My Ántonia

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    After the death of his parents, Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, where he meets his first and most prominent love, Antonia Shimera. As pioneers in Nebraska, the Shimera f

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    • Series: Mint Editions (Women Writers)
    • Author: Cather, Willa
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 222
    • Publish Date: April 20 2021
    • ISBN10: 1513221094
    • Language: English
  • The Sweetness of Water

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    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK
    ONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021

    Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
    Winner of the Willie Mo

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    • Author: Harris, Nathan
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 560
    • Publish Date: June 15 2021
    • ISBN10: 0316362891
    • Language: English
  • Coal Black Horse

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    When Robey Childs’s mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: she sends her only child to find his father on the battlefield and bring … [more below]

    • Author: Olmstead, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 229
    • Publish Date: May 20 2008
    • ISBN10: 1565126017
    • Language: English
  • Aila’s Journal: A Tale of Southern Reconstruction

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    Relive the story of two young women, one White, one Black, as they struggle for survival, dignity, and purpose against the tide of history in the late nineteenth century.

    Aila’s Journal tells the story

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    • Author: Clemmons, Charles M.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 314
    • Publish Date: June 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798987634905
    • Language: English
  • The Pure and the Impure

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    Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, “the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography.” This guided tour of the erotic netherworld with which Colette was so inti… [more below]

    • Author: Colette
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: September 30 2000
    • ISBN10: 094032248X
    • Language: English
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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    Rich in color and humor, this great novel follows the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and vividly recreates the world, the people, and the language that Mark Twain knew and loved from his own years on [more below]

    • Series: Signet Classics
    • Author: Twain, Mark
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: May 06 2008
    • ISBN10: 0451530942
    • Language: English
  • Pot Luck

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    Pot Luck, Zola’s most acerbic satire, describes daily life in a newly constructed block of flats in late nineteenth-century Paris. In examining the contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, Zola rev… [more below]

  • Magic City

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    “A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will somehow, magically, turn out for the best.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    With a new Afterword from the autho

    • Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: May 04, 2021
    • ISBN10: 0063073226
    • Language: English
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