Today We Go Home
Seattle, Washington Larkin Bennett has always known her place, whether it s surrounded by her loving family in the lush greenery of the Pacific Northwest, or riding on a dusty convoy in Afghanistan But all that changed the day tragedy struck her unit and took away everything she held dear Soon af
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
From the Pulitzer Prize winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation s foundation The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional ame
Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth (Civil War America)
More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army But as Kevin M Levin argues in this carefully researched
Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation
A major addition to the history of the Civil War, Lincoln s Spies is a riveting account of the secret battles waged by Union agents to save a nation Filled with espionage, sabotage, and intrigue, it is also a striking portrait of a shrewd president who valued what his operatives uncovered Veteran
Too Useful to Sacrifice: Reconsidering George B. McClellan's Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam
The importance of Robert E Lee s first movement north of the Potomac River in September 1862 is difficult to overstate After his string of successes in Virginia, a decisive Confederate victory in Maryland or Pennsylvania may well have spun the war in an entirely different direction Why he and his
Mustard Seed
The bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting and tender story of three women returning to the plantation they once called home Oberlin, Ohio, 1868 Lisbeth Johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South Jordan Freedman was born a slave to Mattie, Lisbeth s beloved nurse
Trouble the Water
Abigail Milton was born into the British middle class, but her family has landed in unthinkable debt To ease their burdens, Abby s parents send her to America to live off the charity of their old friend, Douglas Elling When she arrives in Charleston at the age of seventeen, Abigail discovers that
Varina
In his powerful fourth novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a
Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising narrative of America s wartime chief executives It sometimes seems, in retrospect, as if America has been almost continuously at war Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial,
Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House
The latest New York Times bestseller from the author of the beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House is a heart racing story about a man s treacherous journey through the twists and turns of the Underground Railroad on a mission to save the boy he swore to protect Glory Over Everything is grip
Winter Sisters (Mary Sutter, #2)
Stunning Oliveira writes with feeling The New York Times Book Review An engrossing story that feel utterly timely People, The Best New Books New York, 1879 An epic blizzard descends on Albany, devastating the city When the snow finally settles, two newly orphaned girls are m
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De oude Syri r Abd al Latief heeft een laatste wens hij wil begraven worden in zijn geboortedorp Op zijn sterfbed vraagt hij zijn zoon Boelboel hem daarheen te brengen Voor Boelboel zit er niets anders op samen met zijn broer Hoessein en zijn zus Fatima gaat hij na hun vaders dood op weg In een