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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Before the famous American Revolution, the United States only existed as thirteen colonies. They were all in the Eastern part of the country and all of them were still ruled by England. The colony of Williamsburg, Virginia became one of the most prosperous of these thirteen colonies due to it's mild southern weather and rich soil.
This book depicts a slice of life during the early 1770's. With a simple question and answer format, readers can peer into this busy colony outpost and see what kind of people lived there, what they did for a living, and what their customs were.
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If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days

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Lauren Groff

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

A Novel

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive “Extraordinary… staggering…with wrenching beauty…This is a triumph.” ­–Publishers Weekly, Starred Review “Must be read…The writing is inspired, the imaginative power near mystic.” ­–Kirkus Reviews A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff’s new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. The Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how—and if—we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.

The Vaster Wilds

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Jean Fritz

Dust jacket is in excellent condition. Pages are clean and crisp. Previous owner’s name on inside cover.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

Relates the history of Plymouth Rock since the Pilgrims first landed on it to the present day.

Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock?

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Sharon M. Draper

Nebraska

A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)

In this "searing work of historical fiction" (Booklist), Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Sharon M. Draper tells the epic story of a young girl torn from her African village, sold into slavery, and stripped of everything she has ever known--except hope.

Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and fortunate enough to live in a beautiful village, it never occurred to her that it could all be taken away in an instant. But that was what happened when her village was invaded by slave traders. Her family was brutally murdered as she was dragged away to a slave ship and sent to be sold in the Carolinas. There she was bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a "birthday present".

Now, survival is all Amari can dream about. As she struggles to hold on to her memories, she also begins to learn English and make friends with a white indentured servant named Molly. When an opportunity to escape presents itself, Amari and Molly seize it, fleeing South to the Spanish colony in Florida at Fort Mose. Along the way, their strength is tested like never before as they struggle against hunger, cold, wild animals, hurricanes, and people eager to turn them in for reward money. The hope of a new life is all that keeps them going, but Florida feels so far away and sometimes Amari wonders how far hopes and dreams can really take her.

Copper Sun

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Thomas Fleming

California

"Set in pre-Revolutionary America, Remember the Morning tells the story of Catalyntie Van Vorst, the first in a long line of strong-minded women in the Stapleton lineage. A brilliant businesswoman, as were many of the Dutch of her era, Catalyntie is also a troubled person who struggles to resolve the conflicts created by growing up captive in a Seneca Indian village. Deeply involved in her life is the beautiful, extraordinarily gifted black woman, Clara Flowers, who shared this captivity with Catalyntie. They also share a love for the same man."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Remember the Morning

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The Vaster Wilds (ex-library)

South Carolina

The Pirates of Colonial North Carolina 

Richard Brookhiser

Pennsylvania

The Adamses, 1735-1918

America's First Dynasty

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A Collection of the Most Approv’d Recipes of the American Colonies 

The Compleat American Housewife - 1787

Patricia Reilly Giff

New condition but old from storage. I have other books available by this author.

A story of the American Revolution from two-time Newbery Honor-winning author Patricia Reilly Giff.
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While staying with her aunt, Elizabeth finds something remarkable: a drawing. It hangs on the wall, a portrait of her ancestor, Eliza, known as Zee. She looks like Elizabeth.
The girls' lives intertwine as Elizabeth's present-day story alternates with Zee's, which takes place during the American Revolution. Zee is dreamy, and hopeful for the future--until the Revolution tears apart her family and her community in upstate New York. Left on her own, she struggles to survive and to follow her father and brother into battle.
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Zee's story has been waiting to be rediscovered by the right person. As Elizabeth learns about Zee, and walks where Zee once walked and battles raged, the past becomes as vivid and real as the present.
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In this beautifully crafted, affecting novel from beloved author Patricia Reilly Giff, the lives of two girls reflect one another as each finds her own inner strengths.

Storyteller

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Philip Marchand

Former libary book with markings/ stickers and ThriftBooks price tag. Slight spine misalignment. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Mississippi

How the French Almost Conquered North America

After he explored the Great Lakes and the entire Mississippi, Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was murdered by his own men when he led them on a disastrous mission to Texas. But the vast land he claimed for France in 1682 could have become—had it not been for a few twists of history—a French-speaking empire extending more than a thousand miles beyond Quebec. This alternative North America would have been Catholic in religion and granted Native peoples a prominent role. Philip Marchand probes the intriguingly flawed character of La Salle and recounts the astonishing history of the Jesuit missionaries, coureurs de bois, fur traders, and soldiers who followed on his heels, and of the Indian nations with whom they came into contact. He also reports on the ways in which the drama of this ghost empire continues to be played out in battle reenactments and in parish churches and wayside restaurants from Montreal to Venice, Louisiana. Throughout the book, Marchand draws on memories of his own Catholic childhood in Massachusetts to interpret the lingering attitudes, fears, hopes, and iconography of a people who, more deeply than most, feel the burdens and the ironies of history.

Ghost Empire

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J. Hecor St. John de Crèvecoeur

Albert E. Stone

Letters of an American Farmer, used softcover.

Texas

America’s physical and cultural landscape is captured in these two classics of American history. Letters provides an invaluable view of the pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary eras; Sketches details in vivid prose the physical setting in which American settlers created their history. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America

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Rhode Island

Linda Byler

Hester's Hunt for Home, Book Two

Born a Native American, but brought up Amish, Hester Zug, at age 20, flees her Amish home. Her father's too-tender care of her has made her stepmother wildly jealous, and so Hester sets off, knowing only that she can't stay. Hester's natural instincts for navigating the forests in colonial Pennsylvania along with the book of medicines and remedies given to her by an aged Native American woman allow her to survive until she gets sick from drinking river water.

Twice rescued--first by matronly Indian women who find her unconscious in the woods, and then by a boy in downtown Lancaster, where she'd been left for dead by the dreaded Paxton boys--Hester finds herself in the kind, if rough, hands of Emma Ferree. Because of her wide heart, Ferree, a widow, offers her home to fugitives.

The dazzlingly beautiful Hester eventually marries an Amish man, who is more in love with the way she looks than with her heart and mind. And when that childless marriage falters, she is met one day in the fields by Running Bear, a Native American brave who has watched her for years. He asks her to marry him, giving her until wintertime to decide.

Belonging in part to two worlds, but experiencing a subtle yet clear rejection from both, Hester comes to wish that her Amish mother, Kate, had never rescued her.

Author Linda Byler shows the lovely and enduring Hester caring for others as the Amish do, with the use of Native American remedies and tinctures from the old woman's book. Her practices raise accusations of witchcraft from the very people she sets out to help. Byler, an active member of the Amish, centers this second book in the Hester's Hunt for Home series on two anguishing questions: Where is Hester's heart most at home? And can she ever be married happily?

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Which Way Home?

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Biography of Lord Baltimore with insights into colonial America. Library discard (see picture for markings as a result). In otherwise really good condition with crisp pages and tight binding.

History

Founder of Maryland

Lord Baltimore

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Top and bottom of spine are a little crunched. Please see all photos! 

Augusta Stevenson

Clean pages and tight binding. Only moderate shelf wear. Some slight yellowing of the pages. See photos. 

Boston Patriot

Paul Revere: Boston Patriot is the next installment in the Childhood of Famous Americans series.

One of the most popular series ever published for young American's, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies - easily read by children of eight and up - today's youngster is swept into history.

Paul Revere

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Jean Brown Wagoner

Clean pages and no markings. Tight binding and appears unread with only light shelf wear 

America's First Lady

Martha Washington was a wife, mother, and the first First Lady of the United States, but what was she like as a child?

In this narrative biography, you'll learn all about Martha Washington's childhood, from her birth on June 2, 1731, to her time growing up on her parents' Virginia plantation, to marriage George Washington in 1759. Discover what Martha did for fun--and how her confidence and ability to host large social events prepared her to help her husband lead a new nation.

Martha Washington

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Ohio

Allison Lassieur

An Interactive History Adventure

Europeans came to the American colonies in the 1600s and 1700s in search of a better life. They worked hard and built farms, homes, and towns. But they were still under Great Britain's rule. Many wanted to make their own laws, but that meant going to war against a rich and powerful country. Will you: Travel to Virginia as an indentured servant? Choose between careers as a sailor or a soldier in Massachusetts? Decide which side you'll take as the country marches closer to revolution?

Colonial America

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Jean C. O'Connor

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Montana

A Novel of James Lovell and the Crucible of the Revolution

The Remarkable Cause SIGNED EDITION

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Alan Taylor

New Jersey

In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Taylor presents the current scholarly understanding of colonial America to a broader audience. He focuses on the transatlantic and a transcontinental perspective, examining the interplay of Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the flows of goods, people, plants, animals, capital, and ideas.

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Barbara Brenner; Jennie Williams (Illustrator)

If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days

Lauren Groff

The Vaster Wilds

Jean Fritz

Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock?

Sharon M. Draper

Copper Sun

Thomas Fleming

Remember the Morning

Lauren Groff

The Vaster Wilds (ex-library)

Hugh F. Rankin

The Pirates of Colonial North Carolina

Richard Brookhiser

America's First Dynasty

Julianne Belote

The Compleat American Housewife - 1787

Patricia Reilly Giff

Storyteller

Philip Marchand

Ghost Empire

J. Hecor St. John de Crèvecoeur; Albert E. Stone

Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America

Lauren Groff

The Vaster Wilds

Linda Byler

Which Way Home?

J. Dennis Robinson

Lord Baltimore

Lauren Groff

The Vaster Wilds

Augusta Stevenson

Paul Revere

Jean Brown Wagoner

Martha Washington

Lauren Groff

The Vaster Wilds

Lauren Groff

The Vaster Wilds

Allison Lassieur

Colonial America

Jean C. O'Connor

The Remarkable Cause SIGNED EDITION

Lauren Groff

The Vaster Wilds

Alan Taylor

Colonial America: a Very Short Introduction