Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Historical - Colonial America & Revolution

Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of family--fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters who yearn for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery, and love.

Drawn to the ocean, ten-year-old Tabitha wanders the marshes of her small coastal village and listens to her father's stories about his pirate voyages and the mother she never knew. Since the loss of his wife Helen, John has remained land-bound for their daughter, but when...

Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into...

Twenty years past, in 1757, a young Redcoat, Reginald Aubrey stole a newborn boy--the lighter-skinned of Oneida twins-- during the devastating fall of Fort William Henry and raised him as his own.

No one connected to Reginald escaped unscathed from this crime. Not his adopted daughter Anna. Not Stone Thrower, the Native American father determined to get his son back. Not Two Hawks, William's twin brother separated since birth, living in the shadow of his absence...

Set in a New England seaside village on the brink of the American Revolution, Walker's Cove is a book of the heart . . . a very personal chronicle about the splendor of love that leaves no human emotion untouched.

Suzannah Ellingwood and James Walker are two young people brought together by chance to share their experiences: from youthful innocence and the first stirrings of love, through marriage, parenthood, the rupture of war and beyond. The reader experiences life with Jim and Suzannah through times that are endearing, intimate, folksy and so profoundly personal, that...