Details the history of the Underground Railroad from the roots of slavery through the post-Emancipation era by focusing on the lives of the participants.
After a legendary but over-the-hill fighter reluctantly agrees to train fifteen-year-old Will, the son of a rich local politician in nineteenth-century New York City, Will finds himself pleading with the stubborn older fighter to retire before he dies in the ring.
From the author of the critically acclaimed Under a Painted Sky, an unforgettable story of determination set against a backdrop of devastating tragedy. Perfect for fans of Code Name Verity. Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Young Adult Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature San Francisco, 1906: Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from the poverty of Chinatown, and an education at St. Clare’s School for Girls is her best hope. Although St. Clare...
As the ground of her past shifts, a girl finds her way to an unexpected future in this compelling historical novel about survival and strength. It’s 1849, and twelve-year-old Addie lives in the shipbuilding town of Essex, Massachusetts. Her father has left the family to seek gold on the West Coast, and now the flux has taken the lives of her mother and baby brother, leaving Addie all alone. Her fear of living as a servant in some other home drives her into the snowy woods, where she survives on...
Song of the Lark (Great Plains, #2) (Perennial Favorites Collection)
by Willa Cather
Thea Kronborg is born into poverty in a small desert town in the American Midwest. One of seven children, she is somehow set apart, a fact recognised by the discerning few, including Ray Kennedy, who longs to marry her but whose fate it is to set her free. With her rugged will and pioneer spirit, Thea carves her way from Moonstone, Colorado, to windy Chicago, from Dresden to New York and a triumphant debut at the Metropolitan Opera. She becomes a great opera singer but learns that as a true...
Rise of the Arcane Fire (The Secret Order, #2)
by Kristin Bailey
Mysteries of Meg’s past and threats to her future are revealed in the thrilling and suspenseful second book in The Secret Order trilogy, set in steampunk Victorian London.After her parents died in a fire and her grandfather disappeared, Meg Whitlock thought her life had come to a standstill. But when she learned that the pocket watch her grandfather left her was really an intricate key, Meg, with the help of a stable hand named Will, uncovered the Amusementists: members of an elite secret societ...
Of Phantoms and Fury (Of Monsters and Madness, #2)
by Jessica Verday
Note: This book was cancelled, and it is now included in newer editions of book one. The sequel to Of Monsters and Madness from a New York Times best-selling author. Edgar Allan Poe and Annabel Lee return for more Gothic thrills in this mashup drawing on Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray."Madness most magnificent!" --The El Paso Times on Of Monsters and MadnessIn mourning after the sudden death of her grandfather, Annabel Lee is devastated when her beau, Allan Poe, commits himself to...
Free and on his own, Daniel Linnehan is nearly sixteen in 1839 when he joins Jonathan Stocking and Billy, a girl hiding from her abusive father, in peddling goods in New England.
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
Two sisters struggle with their roles as women within the family and within society as an arsonist threatens their post-Civil War Vermont community.
Nuevos Comienzos. Un Retelling de Mujercitas
by Bethany C Morrow
Having escaped from Fort Davis, Texas, seventeen-year-old Danny Blackgoat, a Navajo, must still face many obstacles in order to rescue his family from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and find freedom after the Long Walk of 1864.
War is turning Juliet Bradshaw's world upside down. Her brother, Seth, rides with William Quantrill's renegade Confederate army, but he's helpless when the Yankees arrest Juliet along with the wives and sisters of Quantrill's soldiers as spies. Imprisoned in a dilapidated old house in Kansas City, Juliet is one of a handful of survivors after the building collapses, killing most of the young girls inside.When she's reunited with her brother, Juliet finds the life she had previously known is gone...
Salt & Storm - Free Preview (the First 11 Chapters)
by Kendall Kulper
How I Found the Strong
by University Associate Professor Margaret McMullan
In 1861 Frank “Shanks” Russell wishes he was old enough to fight for the South alongside his pa and big brother. But Frank is too young, skinny, and weak, and is left behind with his mother and grandparents. Life in Mississippi was simple before the war between North and South. Now Frank’s boyhood is gone forever, along with his dreams of heroic battles. The shortages and horrors of war reach his home as he scrounges for food and water, and sees both Confederate and enemy soldiers at their worst...
Like Clockwork (Clockwise Collection, #3)
by Lee Strauss and Elle Strauss
LIKE CLOCKWORK is a companion book to Clockwise and can be read alone.Adeline doesn't feel she belongs in her own time, but can bad boys from the past be trusted?Adeline Savoy had hoped that the move west from Cambridge to Hollywood with her single dad would mean they'd finally bond like a real family, but all she got was a father too busy with his new female friends and his passion for acting to really see her.Instead, she finds herself getting attached to Faye, the divorcee hairdresser she bef...
A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator