These books are set in American colonial times.
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The Captive Heart
Michelle Griep - Shiloh Run Pr
Format: Print book
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Proper English governess Eleanor Morgan flees to the colonies to escape the wrath of a brute of an employer. When the Charles Town family she's to work for never arrives to collect her from the dock, she is forced to settle for the only reputable choice remaining to her - marriage to a man she's... |
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly... |
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A Place Called Freedom
Ken Follett - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM begins in the infernal coal mines of the Jamisson family, in the Scottish highlands, where twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh spends most of his waking hours. Bound to his employer for life, Mack burns with an insatiable desire to escape. He finds an unlikely ally in Lizzie... |
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The Mayflower Bride: Daughters of the Mayflower
KIMBERLEY WOODHOUSE - Barbour Books
Format: Paperback
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Can a religious separatist and an opportunistic spy make it in the New World?A brand new series for fans of all things related to history, romance, adventure, faith, and family trees. Mary Elizabeth Chapman boards the Speedwell in 1620 as a Separatist seeking a better life... |
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Caleb's Crossing: A Novel
Geraldine Brooks - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith,... |
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The Widow's War: A Novel
Sally Cabot Gunning
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The Red Tent meets The Scarlett Letter in this haunting historical novel set in a colonial New England whaling village. "When was it that the sense of trouble grew to fear, the fear to certainty? When she sat down to another solitary supper of bread and beer and pic |
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Flight Of The Sparrow
Amy Belding Brown - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover
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Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. On a winter day of terror, Puritan Mary Rowlandson is captured by Indians. Her home destroyed and her children lost to her, she becomes a pawn in the bloody struggle between English settlers and the indigenous people. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion,... |
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