Set near and on Lake Ontario in the 1750s, The Pathfinder is chronologically the third installation of James Fenimore Cooper's gripping Leatherstocking Tales. While the French Indian War rages on, Mabel, a nineteen-year-old young woman, is travelling to see her father, Sergeant Thomas Dunham. Accompanied by her uncle and two Native Americans, Smashing Arrows and June Dew, Mabel treks through the dense forests of upstate New York, towards her father's...

I am an ardent student of American history, as a matter of fact, that most colonists came here chasing a dream or more strongly we came chasing the essence of love, either in search of or escape from. This, then begs a closer examination of what this term "love" truly is. If we take the Biblical description of "love", which is probably what most colonists had for reference, then we find Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not...

Set in 1793 and 1794, The Pioneers tracks the changes of a small town called Templeton, built on the advancing frontier of New York. Natty Bumppo, a hero raised by Native Americans, lives in a cabin, secluded in a forest near Templeton. As the Christmas Eve snow falls, Natty, more commonly known as Leatherstocking, embarks on a tense hunt for a deer. As he tracks the deer down, he runs into Judge Marmaduke Temple, the man who founded the town of Temple....

"Queen of diverse historicals Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti"--

James Grant was an early pioneer within America. His life story is set within the context of a rapidly changing society in the second half of the 19th century. In that period slavery was rampant; huge numbers of new immigrants continued to arrive from Europe; people began to travel into the vast interior, which opened the west; a brutal civil war ravaged the country; railroads were established nationwide; financial depression hindered growth; and...

Just as Marike takes her first adult steps toward love and independence, her lover is called away to take up arms against the British. Soon she finds the blissful life she had envisioned for herself dashed and she must use her wits and inner strength to find her way. Set against the backdrop of revolutionary era New York, Rae's ninth novel brings this period to vivid and thrilling life.

Camden, South Carolina 1783 Colonial Captain Harry Fleming wears his passions like badges of honor, a man considered by most as smart, decisive...even impulsive. With the Patriot victory and his fighting days behind him, his homecoming sours when he discovers his homestead in shambles and childhood sweetheart married to his cousin. Most comfortable in breeches and with her trusty hound by her side, Olivia Parr is a half-white/half-native healer...a...

En la isla de Guadalupe, los miembros de la comunidad Rivière au Sel se congregan en el velorio de un personaje muerto sospechosamente; un extranjero, Francis Sancher, caoba de hombre. Los personajes de la comunidad rememoran para sus adentros su relación con el difunto. Cada recuerdo es un pedazo de la historia del fallecido, siempre incompleta, y una fracción de la identidad guadalupeña, con metropolitanos, negropolitanos, inmigrantes y gente...

Unlike his father, Gordon Beckwith doesn't think Benedict Arnold was bum. Traitor yes, but Arnold was Washington's best commander. Gordon loves working as summer intern at the State House. Renovations in the basement of the building have unearthed a time capsule. Amidst the findings is a black key. A trip to the basement aroused feelings Gordon hoped would never resurface. Using the key, he discovers a tunnel that transports him back to Revolutionary...

Enero de 1807, los ingleses todavía merodean en el estuario del Río de la Plata. Montevideo se encuentra sitiada y pronto caerá en poder de los invasores amenazando la conquista de todo el virreinato. Un inesperado encuentro y una misión alteran los planes del oficial de dragones Hipólito Mondine. Océano por medio, en la agitada Francia imperial, otros sucesos lo arrastrarán hacia lo desconocido y aterrador de su propia historia.