Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century

6 best books like Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Cate Marvin): Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq. as Revealed by his Horse, Home for Erring and Outcast Girls, Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South, Love and Other Consolation Prizes, Coventry, The Slave Ship: A Human History

Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq. as Revealed by his Horse

Author	Robert Lawson
ISBN	0316517291

Paul Revere didn't make his famous midnight ride alone. Meet a patriot unlike any other: Scheherazade, the mare who doesn't mind mentioning she was once the fastest and most admired horse in the King's army. But on arrival in America, "Sherry" is quickly let down by her British rider and recruited by...

Home for Erring and Outcast Girls

Author

Julie Kibler

An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for “fallen girls,” and inspired by historical events.

In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection...

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South

Author	Anne Moody
ISBN	0385337817

Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell,...

Love and Other Consolation Prizes

Author	Jamie Ford
ISBN	0525492585

From the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle's epic 1909 World's Fair.

For twelve-year-old Ernest Young, a charity student at a boarding school, the chance to go to the...

Coventry

Author	Helen Humphreys
ISBN	0002007266

Helen Humphreys draws on history to delve into the lives torn asunder by the German attack of November 14, 1940. Harriet, a widow from World War I, is atop Coventry Cathedral, part of the nightly watch, when first the factories and then the church itself are set on fire. In the ensuing chaos she bonds with...

The Slave Ship: A Human History

Author	Marcus Rediker
ISBN	0670018236

The missing link in the chain of American slavery

For three centuries slave ships carted millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the Americas. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation system, but little of the ships that made it all possible. In...