Civil War | Civil War
Dec.16.2011
In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal...
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Dec.13.2011
“Mary Mackey gives her readers yet another woman warrior, this one a fighter in the Civil War. We thrill to the story of Carrie Vinton as she courageously takes the side of freedom over slavery” —Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior
With an “inventive imagination and crisp style...
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Oct.24.2011
A cross between True Grit and Huckleberry Finn, Bohemian Girl creates "a western world as raucous and unpredictable as any imagined by Larry McMurtry, and teeming with characters as tragically heroic as those created by Willa Cather," according to a starred Booklist review. Kirkus said: True Grit's...
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Nov.16.2010
It has taken centuries to recognize that all humans possess certain unalienable rights. There will come a time when we have to consider whether others deserve those rights as well. -- That time will come on July 4th 1863, at Gettysburg.
When a stranger carrying a shiny,metallic valise steps aboard...
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May.26.2010
Nothing is black or white in the murky town of Alderman, North Carolina, no matter how much the human and ghostly residents of the former Idyllic Grove Rice Plantation would like it to be. In 1949, fourteen-year-old Lillian Green witnesses the unthinkable. Her choice to remain silent about what she...
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Mar.24.2010
Jennie's connection with her twin brother, Toby, grew stronger after he died in 1864. Now Jennie must rely on her ability to communicate with the dead to find out what has happened to her beloved fiance, Will, while he was off at war. The army says he died honorably in battle. His brother confides...
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Oct.16.2009
Appomattox, 1865. A clock slowly ticks, and the scratch of a pen is the loudest sound besides Lee and Grant's small talk. History has a joker up its sleeve, the first of many in Grant's Indian, as the scribe copying the surrender spills the ink and blots the paper. "Parker, you'll have to do...
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Oct.16.2009
Appomattox, 1865. A clock slowly ticks, and the scratch of a pen is the loudest sound besides Lee and Grant's small talk. History has a joker up its sleeve, the first of many in Grant's Indian, as the scribe copying the surrender spills the ink and blots the paper. "Parker, you'll have to do...
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Sep.22.2009
This historical fiction is inspired by a true event. Billy Laird, from Berwick, mustered in the 17th Maine to serve with his friends in the Union Army. Mentally challenged, Billy is ill-prepared for the training and fighting that follows, but he gets by with the help of his friends. Soon, however,...
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Sep.08.2009
In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a boy and walks, with thousands of orphans, to Ethiopia, where he...
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