George Washington the man who would not be king
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This is children’s & young adults biography of George Washington.
George Washington
Sonata Mulattica: Poems
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The son of a white woman and an "African Prince," George Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860) travels to...
The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777
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Eleven-year-old Abigail Jane Stewart records the despair and hope of the difficult winter between...
The Illusions
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Bristol, 1896. Used to scraping a living as the young assistant to an ageing con artist, Cecily...
Historical fiction
The Power of the Dog
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"Billed as the next Stoner, this 1967 reissue is in fact the better novel...a rich and challenging...
High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic
Alexander McCall Smith and Angela Thirkell
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Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas...
Sheila: The Australian Ingenue Who Bewitched British Society
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Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord...