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The Eagle Turns: Agents of Independence Series (Agents Of Independence Ser. #3)
By James Green. 2013
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Mysteries and crime stories, Historical fiction, Spy stories, Suspense and thrillersHistory, Writing
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1850 and America is violently divided on the issue of slavery. When President Zachary Taylor dies, suddenly and under questionable…
circumstances, it is left to his Vice President, Millard Fillmore, a weaker man, to find ways to keep the North and the South apart.In New York, child of Irish immigrants, Matthew O’Hanlon is fired from his job as a newsman on the Herald but, surprisingly, finds work as Foreign Correspondent for the Associated Press in Panama City. There he is given accommodation with a Dr Couperin, his wife and beautiful daughter, Edith, but finds himself caught up with the secret agents protecting America’s commercial interests during the struggle for control of Panama’s trade routes and, as it crashes about him, realises that he has been living in a house of cards. Set against the Gold Rush and the opening up of California and the OregonTerritories, when the United States walked a narrow and dangerous line, The Eagle Turns charts the course of history as America’s Secret Services struggle to bring prosperity amid the conflict.Mixed Harvest: Stories from the Human Past
By Rob Swigart. 2020
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Historical fictionHistory, Archaeology
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In unforgettable stories of the human journey, a combination of storytelling and dialog underscore an excavation into the deep past…
of human development and its consequences. Through a first encounter between a Neanderthal woman and the Modern Human she called Traveler, to the emergence and destruction of the world’s first cities, Mixed Harvest tells the tale of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged. Rob Swigart’s latest work humanizes the rapid transition to agriculture and pastoralism with a grounding in the archaeological record.House of the Waterlily: A Novel of the Ancient Maya World
By Kelli Carmean. 2017
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Historical fictionHistory, Archaeology
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Set in the Maya civilization's Late Classic Period House of the Waterlily is a historical novel centered on Lady Winik,…
a young Maya royal. Through tribulations that mirror the political calamities of the Late Classic world, Winik's personal story immerses the reader not only in her daily life, but also in the difficult decisions Maya men and women must have faced as they tried to navigate a rapidly changing world. Kelli Carmean's novel brings to life a people and an era remote from our own, yet recognizably human all the same.