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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/The Prince & the Pauper

Mark Twain · 608 pages

Contains: - Adventures of Tom Sawyer - [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] (https://openlibrary.org/works/OL53908W/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn) - The Prince and the Pauper

American SouthAdventureTeen ProtagonistHistorical Fiction
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The Fiery Cross

Diana Gabaldon · 985 pages

New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon mesmerized readers with her award-winning Outlander novels, four dazzling tales featuring eighteenth-century Scotsman James Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall. Now, in this eagerly awaited fifth volume, Diana Gabaldon continues their extraordinary saga, a masterpiece of pure storytelling that is her most astonishing

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Rebel

John Clagett · 197 pages

A novel of the Confederate Navy, the River War, and the Coastal War. Huger, a naval academy graduate, serves on rivers and oceans, and commands a Southern ironclad. Romance with a happy ending.

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Men of Iron

Howard Pyle · 328 pages

In seeking to avenge his unjustly accused father, young Myles Falworth is knighted and wins the friendship of King Henry IV.

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Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry · 945 pages

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The Black Arrow

Robert Louis Stevenson · 298 pages

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Viking Warrior

Judson Roberts · 360 pages

Despite being the son of a chieftain and a princess, fourteen-year-old Halfdan lives as a slave in Denmark in A.D. 845 but through a tragic bargain he gains his freedom and sets out to claim his birthright.

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The Bloody Ground

Bernard Cornwell · 432 pages

In this fourth, final, and rousing installment of Nathaniel Starbuck's Civil War adventures, Nate is given command of a punishment battalion: a motley collection of cowards, thieves, deserters, and murderers. Setting off to Join General Robert E. Lee's army, Starbuck's men reach Harper's Ferry in time to take part in Stonewall Jackson's capture of the Union garrison. From there, the regiment moves

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North and South

John Jakes · 816 pages

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The Reivers

William Faulkner · 305 pages

The adventures of a Mississippi innocent who, with two older friends, "borrows" his grandfather's automobile one day in 1905 and heads for Memphis.

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Annie, Between the States

L.M. Elliott · 544 pages

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Seth Grahame-Smith · 336 pages

Indiana , 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness.""My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. When

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Andersonville

MacKinlay Kantor · 767 pages

"The greatest of our Civil War novels." - The New York Times The 1955 Pulitzer Prize winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War.

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Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War

Donald McCaig · 526 pages

A novel of the Civil War in which a young Southerner impregnates a black slave. The family quickly sells her, a white cotton trader marries and passes her off as white. But the girl was already married and her black husband runs away to join the Northern army in a bid to reclaim her.

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Warbow

Wayne Grant · 260 pages

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The Last Full Measure

Jeff Shaara · 612 pages

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The Great Santini

Pat Conroy · 475 pages

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Outcast

Rosemary Sutcliff · 229 pages

Fifteen-year-old Beric feels increasingly bitter isolation when, because of his Roman birth, he is cast out by the Celtic tribe that raised him and, after reaching a Roman settlement, he is sold into slavery and sentenced to serve in a galley for the rest of his life.

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Forge

Laurie Halse Anderson · 320 pages

Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.

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The Teutonic Knights

Henryk Sienkiewicz · 757 pages

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H.M.S. Surprise

Patrick O'Brian · 414 pages

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The Foxes of Harrow

Frank Yerby · 534 pages

American SouthHistorical FictionClassicsSlavery Depicted
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March

Geraldine Brooks · 304 pages

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