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The Vaster Wilds
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The Vaster Wilds

By Lauren Groff ,

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond

By Elizabeth George Speare ,

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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
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The Island at the Center of the World

By Russell Shorto ,

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Hour of the Witch
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Hour of the Witch

By Chris Bohjalian ,

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Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
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Slewfoot

By Brom ,

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In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
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In the Devil's Snare

By Mary Beth Norton ,

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Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
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Crucible of War

By Fred Anderson ,

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The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757
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The Last of the Mohicans

By James Fenimore Cooper ,

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Magic Lessons
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Magic Lessons

By Alice Hoffman ,

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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
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Black Flags, Blue Waters

By Eric Jay Dolin ,

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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
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Founding Mothers

By Cokie Roberts ,

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American Slavery, American Freedom
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American Slavery, American Freedom

By Edmund S. Morgan ,

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Flight of the Sparrow: A Novel of Early America
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Flight of the Sparrow

By Amy Belding Brown ,

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Jane-Emily: And Witches' Children
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Jane-Emily

By Patricia Clapp ,

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Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
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Creatures of Empire

By Virginia DeJohn Anderson ,

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Witchcraft in Old and New England
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Witchcraft in Old and New England

By George Lyman Kittredge ,

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Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts
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Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts

By Richard Weisman ,

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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman

By Carol F Karlsen ,

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A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America
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A Cold Welcome

By Sam White ,

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Dunmore's New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America
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Dunmore's New World

By James Corbett David ,

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The Great Level
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The Great Level

By Stella Tillyard ,

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France and England in North America
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France and England in North America

By Francis Parkman ,

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Complete Writings
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Complete Writings

By Phillis Wheatley ,

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Knowledge is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865
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Knowledge is Power

By Richard D. Brown ,

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The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather
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The Last American Puritan

By Michael G. Hall ,

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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
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Good Wives

By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ,

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Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
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Facing East from Indian Country

By Daniel K. Richter ,

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In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process 1: The Colonial Period
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In the Matter of Color

By A. Leon Higginbotham ,

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Polygamy: An Early American History
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Polygamy

By Sarah M. S. Pearsall ,

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In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863
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In the Shadow of Slavery

By Leslie M. Harris ,

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Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
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Brethren by Nature

By Margaret Ellen Newell ,

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Poet, Pilgrim, Rebel: The Story of Anne Bradstreet, America's First Published Poet
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Poet, Pilgrim, Rebel

By Katie Munday Williams , Tania Rex (illustrator) ,

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Anger: The Struggle for Emotional Control in America's History
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Anger

By Carol Zisowitz Stearns , Peter N. Stearns ,

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The Old American
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The Old American

By Ernest Hebert ,

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Bound
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Bound

By Sally Cabot Gunning ,

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George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides
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George vs. George

By Rosalyn Schanzer ,

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The Captive Heart
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The Captive Heart

By Michelle Griep ,

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The Crucible
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The Crucible

By Arthur Miller ,

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Out Front the Following Sea
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Out Front the Following Sea

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Death in Salem: The Private Lives Behind the 1692 Witch Hunt
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Death in Salem

By Diane E. Foulds ,

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Seedlip and Sweet Apple: Poems
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Seedlip and Sweet Apple

By Arra Lynn Ross ,

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Relation of Virginia: A Boy's Memoir of Life with the Powhatans and the Patawomecks
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Relation of Virginia

By Karen Ordahl Kupperman (editor) , Henry Spelman ,

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Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution
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Quarters

By John Gilbert McCurdy ,

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Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America
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Defiance of the Patriots

By Benjamin L. Carp ,

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The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739-1762
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The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739-1762

By Elise Pinckney (editor) , Marvin R. Zahniser (editor) ,

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Drums of Autumn
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Drums of Autumn

By Diana Gabaldon ,

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An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic
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An Empire Transformed

By Kate Luce Mulry ,

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A Place Called Freedom
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A Place Called Freedom

By Ken Follett ,

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Times of Turmoil
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Times of Turmoil

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American Passage: The Communications Frontier in Early New England
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American Passage

By Katherine Grandjean ,

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As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution
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As If an Enemy's Country

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Search Out the Land: The Jews and the Growth of Equality in British Colonial America, 1740-1867
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Search Out the Land

By Sheldon J. Godfrey , Judith C. Godfrey ,

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Mahogany
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Mahogany

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Witch Child
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Witch Child

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