Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Saturday, September 20, 2025

Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been called "the best book we've had" (by Ernest Hemingway ) and also been widely bann...
Friday, October 20, 2023

The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, Volume 1: 1862

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What seems like a million years ago now, I supported a Kickstarter campaign for volume 3 of The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby , and I am...
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Friday, December 20, 2019

Major Impossible

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I love, love, love, LOVE the Nathan Hale Hazardous Tales books, and Major Impossible , the ninth(!) entry in the series focuses on John W...
Thursday, September 5, 2019

Stage Dreams

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Having read and loved As the Crow Flies , I have been looking very forward to reading this book by the same creator. Stage Dreams is a fun...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

Strange Fruit Volume II: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History

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I very much enjoyed the first Strange Fruit book, so much that I included it in a chapter in a book on children's literature in the c...
Monday, February 20, 2017

The Hammer and the Anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the End of Slavery in America

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The Hammer and the Anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the End of Slavery in America is an expertly researched and told nonfi...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

The Underground Abductor

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If you have been reading my blog and paying attention, you pretty much know that I think Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales are some of th...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

The Divine

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The Divine was inspired by God's Army , a group of Burmese dissidents led by twin 12-year-old boys, but it takes that seed of truth a...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Turning Points: Little Rock Nine & Sons of Liberty & A House Divided

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Turning Points is a series of graphic novels from Aladdin Paperbacks , that tell about important moments and events in US history. These bo...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Big Bad Ironclad!

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The second book in the series of Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales , Big Bad Ironclad gives an account of the "Anaconda Plan" ...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

The Murder of Abraham Lincoln

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Another entry in the Treasury of Victorian Murder series, The Murder of Abraham Lincoln details a 62 day period in US history, from March 4...
Sunday, April 11, 2010

Booth

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The name is Booth. John Wilkes Booth . While there are no moments where he takes a martini shaken not stirred , Booth is a complicated chara...