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by Abbott Kahler
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsKaren Abbott tells the stories of four courageous women - a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow - who were spies during the Civil War.
by Laird Hunt
Published May 2015
Read ReviewsNeverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman and a traitor to the American cause.
by Kathy Hepinstall
Published Apr 2013
Read ReviewsIn the midst of the American Civil War, a southern plantation owner's wife is arrested by her husband and declared insane for interfering with his slaves. She is sent to an island mental asylum to come to terms with her wrongdoing, but instead finds love and escape with a war-haunted Confederate soldier.
by Lois Leveen
Published May 2012
Read ReviewsWith the rich detail of Cold Mountain, the strong female bonds of The Help, and the untold history of The Warmth of Other Suns, comes a powerful debut novel about the secrets a woman keeps, and those she will risk everything to tell.
by Dara Horn
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsIn this eagerly-awaited third novel, award-winning author Dara Horn brings us page-turning storytelling at its best. Layered with meaning, All Other Nights presents the most American of subjects with originality and insight -- and the possibility of reconciliation that might yet await us.
by James McBride
Published Jan 2009
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by David Poyer
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsIn the third volume of David Poyer's monumental Civil War at Sea cycle, North meets South in the momentous first battle between ironclads.
by Geraldine Brooks
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsAn extraordinary novel woven out of the lore of American historyby the author of the international bestseller Year of Wonders. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
by Chris Adrian
Published Mar 2002
Read ReviewsBoth convincing in its portrayal of the collective madness America went through after the carnage of the Civil War, and otherworldly in its contemplation of obsessive grief and longing, Gob's Grief is at once an announcement of a major talent, and an extraordinary achievement in literary art.
by Jeff Shaara
Published May 1999
Read ReviewsFull of human passion and the spellbinding truth of history, The Last Full Measure is the fitting capstone to a magnificent literary trilogy.
by Charles Frazier
Published Aug 1998
Read ReviewsA magnificent love story, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded Confederate soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his pre-war sweetheart.
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