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Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Lies Across America looks at more than one hundred sites where history is told on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, outdoor museums, historic houses, forts, and ships. Loewen uses his investigation of these public versions of history, often literally written in stone, to correct historical interpretations that are profoundly wrong, to tell neglected but important stories about the American past, and, most importantly, to raise...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Trust none. Risk all. Richmond, Virginia, 1863. Compelled to atone for the sins of her slaveholding father, Union loyalist Sophie Kent risks everything to help end the war from within the Confederate capital and abolish slavery forever. But she can't do it alone. Former slave Bella Jamison sacrifices her freedom to come to Richmond, where her Union soldier husband is imprisoned, and her twin sister still lives in bondage in Sophie's home. Though...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"While Confederate statues are brought down across the country, America is reckoning with its tumultuous past and the legacy of the darker chapters of our history. In The Devil's Half Acre, New York Times bestselling author Kristen Green draws on years of deep research to tell the extraordinary hidden story of young Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who sought freedom and lit a path for liberation for thousands more. Enslaved and separated from her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Captured by the Confederate Army in 1863 during the American Civil War, Union soldiers Colonel Thomas Rose and Major A.G. Hamilton are sent to infamous Libby Prison, where they resolve to escape tortuous conditions.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Told from the perspectives of four people whose actions changed the course of history, this masterful work of historical fiction takes readers back to 1811 Richmond, Virginia, where, on the night after Christmas, the city's only theater burned to the ground, tearing apart a community.
Richmond, Virginia 1811. It's the height of the winter social season. The General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia's gentleman planters, along with their...
Author
Publisher
Avalon Travel, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The U.S. Civil Rights Trail offers a vivid glimpse into the story of Black America's fight for freedom and equality. From eye-opening landmarks to celebrations of triumph over adversity, experience a tangible piece of history with Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail. Includes flexible itineraries, historic civil rights sites, the culture of the movement, expert insight, travel tools, and detailed coverage of Charleston, Atlanta, Selma to Montgomery, Birmingham,...
9) Dark chaos
Author
Series
Bregdan Chronicles volume 4
Publisher
A Voice In The World Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
"Dark clouds and chaos descend lower upon America as the war rages around them -- threatening all they hold dear. Carrie & Robert are once more pulled apart, and Carrie finds herself the target of a hostile group of men determined to stop her from providing medical care to black residents of Richmond. How long can she continue to save other people's lives at the risk of her own? Riots erupt in the North, threatening those she loves, and she is pulled...
10) Body of evidence
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell (Postmortem) returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this suspense fiction classic. A reclusive author, Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls -- or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic evidence -- while unwittingly edging...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured,...
12) Postmortem
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta uses forensic medicine to try to catch the killer of five young women.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Young lovers are disappearing in Richmond, Virginia, only to be found later as mutilated corpses. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Dr. Kay Scarpetta must track down a murderer before another missing couple become the next victims.
14) On to Richmond
Author
Series
Bregdan Chronicles volume 2
Publisher
A Voice In The World Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Burdened with the responsibility of running an entire plantation, Carrie Cromwell fights to understand the forces tearing her beloved country apart. As battles rage around her, she watches her life as her life slowly unravels and she discovers truths she would never have imagined. Will her actions and decisions push her even farther from those she loves? When the danger she dreads becomes reality, will she find the courage and strength to escape?"--Author's...
16) The night angel
Author
Series
Heirs of Acadia volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
"A new family business partner catches Serfina's eye and then mysteriously disappears. He is rumored dead, but could he be the mysterious "night angel" freeing slaves with gold?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Odd Singsaker volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A murder at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, bears a close resemblance to one in Trondheim, Norway. The corpse of the museum curator in Virginia is found flayed in his office by the cleaning staff; the corpse of an archivist at the library in Norway, is found inside a locked vault used to store delicate and rare books. Richmond homicide detective Felicia Stone and Trondheim police inspector Odd Singsaker find themselves working on...
19) Copperhead
Author
Series
Starbuck chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Nate Starbuck, a young Bostonian and a lieutenant in the Confederate Army, is accused of being a Yankee spy. To prove his innocence means getting behind enemy lines.
Author
Series
Bregdan Chronicles volume 5
Publisher
A Voice In The World Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
"The power of the Union army brings the South to its knees in surrender, but not until a year of intense pain and chaos creates a chasm that may be impossible for the country to bridge. Carrie struggles to hold on to hope as the world caves in around her; hanging on to the promise she has been given. She also finally gets to reveal the secret she has held so close. Moses is gravely wounded in battle. Robert's plantation takes a severe loss, but is...
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