Explores the important role played by African Americans in medicine during the Civil War era in Washington, D.C. Region Your Book Covers: Washington, D.C. What Inspired You to Write History Books? I have been interested in history since I was a child. Learning about aspect of our country and world that had happened decades or centuries earlier but still had relevance to my life and to the lives of those around me was a constant source of fascination. My love of history grew through … [Read more...] about African American Medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era by Heather Butts
Vengeance & Betrayal by John Cunningham Jr.
A sweeping saga of the Civil War’s western naval campaigns, Book 1 in the Southern Sons-Dixie Daughters series follows four Southern families living on the Gulf Coast—the Westcotts, the Jessups, the Soileaus, the indomitable and devout slave Danny who escapes bondage and finds service aboard a Union warship and his wife Nancy, cruelly whisked out of his life decades before the war. While the Confederacy struggles to build a navy to defeat the Yankee fleet threatening New Orleans these … [Read more...] about Vengeance & Betrayal by John Cunningham Jr.
Hand-me-Down Bride by Juliet Waldron
This book is bargain priced from 09/09/2014 until 09/16/2014 To help her impoverished family, Sophie agrees to marry a wealthy older in far off America. Less than twenty-four hours after she arrives in German’s Mill, Pennsylvania, events have taken a far stranger turn than anything she could have imagined. Set in Post-Civil-War Pennsylvania, this tale of an arranged marriage is as much family saga as romance. Sophie is a sensitive young woman struggling to make sense of her past and to … [Read more...] about Hand-me-Down Bride by Juliet Waldron
Land of Fallng Stars by Keta Diablo @ketadiablo
This book is bargain priced from 08/15/2014 until 08/31/2014 Historical Romance/Erotic Romance After her parents die in a fire, Sophia Whitfield struggles to save her beloved home, Arbor Rose. The Civil War has devastated the South, and another blue coat has come to steal her meager possessions. Before the hated enemy inflicts his destruction, she shoots him... and then discovers the soldier is Gavin, the champion of her childhood. Gavin's dark secret lurks in Sophia’s future. When she … [Read more...] about Land of Fallng Stars by Keta Diablo @ketadiablo
Plantation Nation by Mercedes King @Mercedes_King_
Sixteen year old Emma Cartwright narrowly survives a horrific beating, once it's discovered that she was teaching one of the plantation slaves how to read. The slave was not so fortunate. Days later, Emma leaves her family's plantation and heads to Washington, D.C. Now disguised as a young man, she enlists in the Union Army.Brewing with passion and determination to help end slavery, Emma quickly learns the war is about much more than slavery. Through her missions as a nurse, courier, and spy, … [Read more...] about Plantation Nation by Mercedes King @Mercedes_King_
The Bushwhackers by Van Holt
This book is bargain priced from 03/20/2014 until 03/24/2014 Heck Martin’s motto was simple. If they left him alone, he would leave them alone. Heck Martin was not pro-Union, like his father and brother. He had joined up with Quantrill to harass the bluebellies and other Union feds that thought they could tell others what they should be doing. But after the massacre at Lawrence, Kansas, he wanted nothing to do with Quantrill and his gang. Thirteen other hard-bitten veterans had followed … [Read more...] about The Bushwhackers by Van Holt
Son of a Gunfighter by Van Holt
This book is bargain priced from 02/13/2014 until 02/17/2014 Dan Whitton's father was the most hunted and desperate killer the west had ever known – not hunted by the law, but by the man who had destroyed his chance of living in peace with the girl he loved. Now Bob Whitton was dead, and the man who had finally succeeded in having him killed was still alive, fat and prosperous and gloating in his triumph, and already planning a similar fate for Bob Whitton's son, Dan. So Dan Whitton … [Read more...] about Son of a Gunfighter by Van Holt
Six-Gun Serenade by Van Holt
This book is bargain priced from 01/30/2014 until 02/03/2014 Jed Baker and Bill Hicken rode with Quantrill in the early days of the Civil War. After the massacre at Lawrence, Kansas, Bill Hicken switched sides and became a Union spy. During that time he probably met a beautiful young southern girl who later changed her name. By the early 1870s, Bill Hicken was a legendary gunfighter. Jed Baker didn’t expect to run into him in the Apache-haunted desert wasteland of the Southwest, near the … [Read more...] about Six-Gun Serenade by Van Holt
Death in Black Holsters by Van Holt
This book is bargain priced from 01/09/2014 until 01/13/2014 They said Lorn Chambers packed death in his black holsters. But Chambers was a relic from the past, the last of the great gunfighters. All the others were dead or had hung up their guns, trying to change with the times. Chambers turned his back on the future and rode off into the western wasteland, looking for what was left of the past. What he found was some vicious killers from his own past. They had robbed and murdered his … [Read more...] about Death in Black Holsters by Van Holt
Six-Gun Solution by Van Holt
This book is bargain priced from 01/09/2014 until 01/13/2014 As young Jim buries his father, a burning revenge rages in him. But what could a young teen in the old west really expect to do against hired gunhands? They called him a nester and after they killed his pa, he started calling himself Jim Nester. But what he needed was a six-gun solution. A tough, mysterious bounty hunter with a score of his own to settle helped him hunt the killers down. But Jim Nester knew that someday he would … [Read more...] about Six-Gun Solution by Van Holt
The Long Trail by Van Holt
This book is bargain priced from 01/02/2014 until 01/09/2014 The long trail means death in the Old West. But it’s a long and dangerous trail that Ben Russell must follow in his search for the men who murdered his father. Then it’s that other long trail for the killers when they go down before his blazing gun—the long trail to hell. Van Holt’s hellbound gunslingers always send the bad guys where they belong. It just isn’t safe for them anywhere in the Old West anymore. Of course, the … [Read more...] about The Long Trail by Van Holt
Hunt the Kllers Down by Van Holt
This book is bargain priced from 01/02/2014 until 01/06/2014 The War Between the States had just ended. But the war between Jeff Braden and the killers who had murdered his folks was just beginning. What he didn’t know was that the worst killer of them all was a likable young man that no one suspected. Warning: Reading a Van Holt western may make you want to get on a horse and hunt some bad guys down in the Old West. Of course, the easiest and most enjoyable way to do it is vicariously—by … [Read more...] about Hunt the Kllers Down by Van Holt
