Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth
10 best books like Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth (Patricia Clapp): The Road Home, Mara, Daughter of the Nile, Time Enough for Drums, Calico Captive, The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd, Silver Woven In My Hair, The Glass Slipper, Almost Home: A Story Based on the Life of the Mayflower's Mary Chilton, Annie, Between the States, A Candle in Her Room
| Author | Ellen Emerson White |
| ISBN | 0590467387 |
Lieutenant Rebecca Phillips had come to Vietnam to heal and give comfort, but found that nearly impossible. The war had torn her family apart and she wanted to know why. But there were no answers for her in Vietnam--only more questions.
When Rebecca returns to the U.S., her war still isn't over....
| Author | Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
| ISBN | 0140319298 |
Mara is a proud and beautiful slave girl who yearns for freedom. In order to gain it, she finds herself playing the dangerous role of double spy for two arch enemies - each of whom supports a contender for the throne of Egypt.
Against her will, Mara finds herself falling in love with one of her masters,...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0816712697 |
This was an excellent read.
Yes, I didn't 100%, completely approve of the romance here--but you know what? In the end, that hardly MATTERED. Because, as with all Ann Rinaldi books . . . this is about so much more than just romance. This is why she's my favorite historical fiction author. She takes...
| Author | Elizabeth George Speare |
| ISBN | 0618150765 |
In the year 1754, the stillness of Charlestown, New Hampshire, is shattered by the terrifying cries of an Indian raid. Young Miriam Willard, on a day that had promised new happiness, finds herself instead a captive on a forest trail, caught up in the ebb and flow of the French and Indian War.
It is a...
The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd
| Author | Jana Bommersbach |
| ISBN | 1590580648 |
If history is right, a 26 year-old beauty named Winnie Ruth Judd murdered her two best girlfriends one hot Phoenix night in 1931. Then she hacked up their bodies, stuffed the pieces into a trunk, and took them by train to Los Angeles as her baggage.
If history is right, she was sentenced to die but "cheated...
| Author | Shirley Rousseau Murphy |
| ISBN | 0689305583 |
Thursey is too strong-willed to be intimidated by her stepsisters with their cruel taunts claiming that her father died a coward in the recent wars. She defies them, hiding the little books she makes that preserve a variety of Cinderella stories from around the world--tales she hears from travelers...
| Author | Eleanor Farjeon |
| ISBN | 0064405613 |
The Glass Slipper' is one of the books that began my lifelong fascination with fairytale retellings, and with tales of magic and marvel, one which drives my writing today. It is told simply, but with such wit and humour, charm and playfulness, that it is far fresher than any other version of the old tale...
| Author | Wendy Lawton |
| ISBN | 0802436374 |
Almost Home is the story of the pilgrims' journey to America and of God's providence and provision.
Several of the characters in the story—Mary Chilton, Constance Hopkins, and Elizabeth Tilley—were actual passengers on the Mayflower. Mary Chilton was a young girl when she left her home...
| Author | L.M. Elliott |
| ISBN | 0060012137 |
Annie Sinclair's Virginia home is in the battle path of the Civil War. Her brothers, Laurence and Jamie, fight to defend the South, while Annie and her mother tend to wounded soldiers. When she develops a romantic connection with a Union Army lieutenant, Annie's view of the war broadens. Then an accusation...
| Author | Ruth M. Arthur |
| ISBN | 0689703155 |
Melissa was sure it was the doll, Dido, who brought evil to the family, not once, but again and again. Three generations were haunted by the strange wooden doll. Each time Dido came to light there was disaster and tragedy. What could be done to overcome the power of the doll? This is a book about many things:...
| Author | Sally M. Keehn |
| ISBN | 0698119207 |
The cabin door crashes open-and in a few minutes Regina's life changes forever. Allegheny Indians murder her father and brother, burn their Pennsylvania home to the ground, and take Regina captive. Only her mother, who is away from home, is safe. Torn from her family, Regina longs for the past, but she...
| Author | William Lavender |
| ISBN | 0152054723 |
When Lady Jane, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charlestown, South Carolina, in 1776, she finds herself in the middle of a heated war--a war not only between her former country and her new home but one between the members of her own family, whose loyalties are strongly divided in America's...
| Author | Jackie French Koller |
Living in a rough Puritan missionary settlement that borders an Indian village, sixteen-year-old Rebekah is forced to choose between two cultures when she falls in love with a defiant Pawtucket medicine man. “Issues about separation of church and state, the scandalous idea of thinking for oneself,...
It's April 18, 1906, and a powerful earthquake has just rocked San Francisco. Photographer Edith Irvine and her assistant, Daisy Valentine, survive the tragedy. Armed with Edith's camera, the two women set out to document the devastation--even as buildings crumble around them and soldiers promise...
| Author | Victoria Lincoln |
| ISBN | 0809493586 |
On a stiflingly hot August morning in 1892 Lizzie Borden, of Fall River, Massachusetts, chopped her stepmother to death with an ax. An hour and a half later, she killed her father the same way. Although the story has been told by those least qualified to do so -- outsiders and men. Now, for the first time,...
| Author | Willo Davis Roberts |
| ISBN | 0590332392 |
Her disguise would keep her safe, but not from love.
If only men and boys were going to California, then Caroline would become a -- boy!
Caroline just wants the same adventures her brothers have. But they're headed west to California to find gold, and that's no place for a girl to be. So Caroline...
Locked Rooms Open Doors: Diaries And Letters Of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1933-1935
| Author | Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0156529564 |
Volume three of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's diaries and letters is definitely darker and deals with the relentless media frenzy surrounding the Lindberghs, whether at home or visiting throughout the world on their aviation journeys. Anne writes poignantly of the struggle to build her young family in...
| Author | Joan Druett |
| ISBN | 0684839687 |
In the tradition of The Midwife's Tale and Pioneer Women -- an intimate portrait of the courageous wives of sailing ship captains in the last century, told for the first time in their own words, through journals and letters.Maritime historian Joan Druett takes us into the wildly colorful, dangerous,...
