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The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two best-selling authors at the height of their writing power - Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America’s "First Frontier" that places the listener at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice.

Twelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he can’t believe his good fortune. He’s heard that gold washes ashore with every tide. But beginning with the stormy journey and his first contact with the native people, he realizes that the New World is nothing like he imagined. The lush Virginia shore where they establish the colony of James Town is both beautiful and forbidding, and it’s hard to know who’s a friend or foe.

Fans fell in love with Eliza Hamilton - Alexander Hamilton’s devoted wife - in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s phenomenal musical Hamilton. But they don’t know her full story. A strong pioneer woman, a loving sister, a caring mother, and, in her later years, a generous philanthropist, Eliza had many sides - and this fascinating biography brings her multifaceted personality to vivid life.

The year is 1795 and Napoleon Bonaparte is a Corsican serving in the French military. His personality is fire and ice personified -- passionate, temperamental, and pragmatic to the extreme. He is engaged to Desiree Clary, or Eugenie as he affectionately nicknamed her, but the allure of Parisian women poses a temptation to seek a more strategic alliance, one that will help connect him with prominent figures that may serve his rise to power. The tables are turned on him, however, when he meets Rose de Beauharnais, a beautiful and charming widow with two children. Rose intrigues him with her ...

The Diary of Essie Lassiter was an authentic read, with a strong female narrator blazing a fiery path in a harsh new world. Her voice was as captivating as her journey, and the world created around her was vibrant with the sights, sounds and smells of colonial life. – Reedsy Discovery In the runup to the Revolutionary War, a young English midwife is unsuspectingly thrown into the London Debtor’s Prison. With no prospect of retiring her debt, she becomes indentured to Aquila Wright, a wealthy mill owner in the British colony of Maryland. After saving Aquila's life and earning his ...

With this riveting novel, New York Times best-selling author Jimmy Carter becomes the first American president to write a work of fiction. In 1773, Ethan Pratt leaves Philadelphia to escape the escalating tension between America and Britain. But when he reaches Georgia, he is swept into a horrific struggle that pits neighbor against neighbor in a bloody fight for survival.

Volume Four opens as the British abandoned Boston in March 1776. They moved their troops to Long Island and their fleet to New York Harbor. Washington, anticipating such a strategy, came out to face the Redcoats in Brooklyn, but was driven back to the city. More British troops arrived, forcing Washington to withdraw north. As the winter of 1777 approached with Redcoats occupying Philadelphia, Washington restricted the British army's supply line. But almost nobody believed the British could be defeated and few believed Washington's army could survive.

In 1782, during the final clashes of the Revolutionary War, one of our young nation’s most valiant and beloved soldiers was, secretly, a woman. When Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man and joined the Continental Army, she wasn’t just fighting for America’s independence - she was fighting for her own. Revolutionary, Alex Myers’s richly imagined and meticulously researched debut novel, brings the true story of Deborah’s struggle against a rigid colonial society back to life.

Few women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton's "saucy" sister-in-law, and the heart of Thomas Jefferson's "charming coterie" of artists and salonnières in Paris. Her transatlantic network of important friends spanned the political spectrum of her time and place, and her astute eye and brilliant letters kept them well informed.

Gear up for the explosive sequel in the Redemption Series, where classic historical fiction meets a supernatural thrill ride in an adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Chosen is a gripping tale that explores profound themes of choice, providence, love, and the age-old battle between good and evil. Two worlds are at stake. But he can only save one. For James “Mack” MacNaughton, war follows him like a shadow. Because when the time-traveling adventurer is plunged into the heart of the American Revolutionary War, his peaceful life with Cherokee princess Toey is thrown into...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.

Alternate history on an epic scale. Drew McGunn continues the acclaimed Lone Star Reloaded series with a high-stakes European gambit.He was a Ranger, forged on the battlefields of Mexico and East Texas. Europe's war was supposed to be observed, not survived. Colonel Jesse Running Creek—veteran commander, hero of the Republic — is dispatched to Paris on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War. His mission: navigate the treacherous currents of French diplomacy, secure a controversial arms deal, and report on the terrifying new face of European warfare, from deadly Prussian artillery to Texas's...

The Last Days of the Russian Imperial family after the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the desperate hope that some of the family actually survived their captivity and that terrible night. . . some of this is true. Based on excerpts of journals and letters of the Imperial Romanov family and their friends, before and during the Soviet Revolution, plus other contemporaneous accounts of the Imperial internment, and rumors of Romanov survivors. 1917: Europe was enraged in World War when revolution began within Russia. By March of 1917, Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate after 300 years of ...

The book five story in the series of A Most Promising Planet was the inspiration for the novel. The mysterious beings of light step in to inspire the Pueblo people of the American Southwest to rebel against the invading Spanish. The Spanish have enslaved, tortured and tried to destroy the culture of the native people. An unlikely hero arises among the Pueblo people to lead them in what is called the first American revolution in 1680. A huge task awaits the hero, who has to unite the people of the land who speak different languages, and some who have been warring with each other for ...

Prolific writer James Lincoln Collier collaborates with his brother, Christopher, a distinguished historian, and the Revolutionary War comes alive in this contemporary classic for young adults. Here is a war with no clear-cut loyalties - dividing families, friends, and towns. Young Tim Meeker watches his 16-year-old brother, Sam, go off to fight with the Patriots while his father remains a reluctant British Loyalist in the Tory town of Redding Ridge, Connecticut.

With the sweep and vitality of a great novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough presents the enthralling story of John Adams. This is history on a grand scale - an audiobook about politics, war, and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Read by History Channel host Edward Herrmann!

Desmond Harvey, haunted by a past he cannot escape, flees the relentless pursuit of a witch hunter across the wilds of England. Seeking refuge, he sets sail for the New World, hoping to lose himself in the anonymity of colonial Massachusetts. Yet, upon his arrival in the year 1692, Desmond's search for peace is abruptly interrupted. On his first day in this new land, Desmond encounters four enigmatic strangers who claim to be travelers from a distant future. With their arrival, his world is irrevocably altered, thrusting him into a maelstrom of uncertainty and intrigue. These newfound ...

Nina Sankovitch’s American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution. American Rebels explores how the desire for independence cut across class lines, binding people together as well as dividing them -rebels versus loyalists - as they pursued commonly held goals of opportunity, liberty, and stability. Nina Sankovitch's new audiobook is a fresh history of our revolution that makes listeners look more closely at Massachusetts.

If, as historian Thomas Carlyle said, the history of the world is but the biography of great men, then it is also true that the story of the great men is a parable of their times, places, and generational aspirations. The life of Davy Crockett, one of the most cherished and remembered American frontiersmen, is an accurate representation of the United States as it stretched westward to become one of the largest nations in the world. Yet, David Crockett was not a mythical character but a very real person.

Embark on a thrilling voyage through the veiled annals of history with "*Glimpses of the Past*," a remarkable eBook that sheds light on the lesser-known facets of our world's rich and textured past. This masterfully curated collection takes you deep into the crannies of forgotten epochs, unveiling the marvels and enigmas that traditional chronicles often overlook. Journey back to medieval banquet halls in "*Intrigues and Innovations in Medieval Cuisine*" and taste the exotic spices that tempered the might of empires and unified disparate cultures on shared tables. Rekindle the lost flames ...