If you liked Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick, you might like:
Spokane Valley Library Book Club selection for Wednesday, March 20, at 2pm. Read the book, then join the discussion. Everyone is welcome! |
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 | Axelrod, Alan | | A Savage Empire: Trappers, Traders, Tribes, and the Wars that Made America | | Offers a unique take on our country’s origins by exploring the bloody history of fur trading, an industry that affected not only fashion, but the fate of a nation, plotting the various forces that led to the Beaver Wars and eventually set the stage for the Amerian Revolution. |
|  | Bown, Stephen R. | | Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900 | | Six great companies dominated the "Heroic Age of Commerce," serving as stalking horses for kings and parliaments while enriching shareholders and the powerful managers themselves -- leaders’ ambitions combined with the force of commerce to alter history as much as any legitimate monarch. |
|  | Bradford, William | | Of Plymouth Planatation, 1620-1647 | | William Bradford, governor of the Plymouth settlement in 1620, gives his account of the Puritans’ early settlement -- providing an invaluable record of early American life and a powerful example of how Puritan theology was expressed in a history that illustrated the purposes of an omnipotent God. |
|  | Hagger, Nicholas | | The Secret Founding of America: the Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans and the Battle for the New World | | Most Americans believe our country’s origins lie with the Mayflower and its settlers, but something existed even before that: Jamestown. Hagger argues that its founders had thoroughly different values than the Puritans, and their Masonic beliefs indelibly shaped America’s future. |
|  | Hawthorne Nathaniel | | The Scarlet Letter | | Published in 1850, this masterpiece of American literature is set in a village in Puritan New England, during the years 1642-1649 -- it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. |
|  | Horn, James P, P, | | A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America | | Founded 13 years before the Mayflower sailed, Jamestown was the true crucible of American history -- it introduced slavery into English-speaking North America; it became the first of England’s colonies to adopt a representative government; and, it was the site of the first white-Indian clashes over territorial expansion. |
|  | Kent, Kathleen | | The Wolves of Andover | | In Massachusetts before the Salem witch trials, strong-willed, 23-year-old Martha Allen falls in love with strong-armed, hired hand Thonas Carrie, who, rumor has it, lkayed a role in the execution of King Charles I -- after Thomas saves Martha frona wolf attack, he discovers wild animals are not the only dangers lurking in the Massachusetts woods. |
|  | Kupperman, Karen Ordahl | | The Jamestown Project | | The first decade of Jamestown’s history was messy, but through that mess, settlers figured out how to make colonization work -- recreates the sights and sounds of homeland and wilderness that together reveal the trials, errors, and triumphs that made Jamestown the model for all successful English colonies, including Plymouth. |
|  | Mann, Charles C. | | 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus | | Radically altering our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492, Mann reveals how a new generation of researchers, equipped with novel scientific techniques, have come to previously unheard-of conclusions, and how they affect our understanding of our history, and our thinking about the environment. |
|  | Mann, Charles C. | | 1493:Uncovering the New World Columbus Created | | Turning his attention to the era of contacdt between the Old and New World, Mann describes how Native American populations were decimated by the introduction of diseases, ecosystems were transformed by the exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas, and how New World wealth altered economies around the world. |
|  | Mills, Daniel | | Revenants: a Dream of New England | | Two young wonmen have gone missing in 1689, in the town of Cold Marsh -- the stern minister warns townspeople that the disappearances are the work of the devil, but when the men organize a search party, what they discover unleashes a torrent of guilt and sorrow that can barely be acknowledged. |
|  | Nissenson, Hugh | | The Pilgrim | | Charles Wentworth, a heartbroken Puritan, has abandoned his faith after the death of his betrothed. Now he must travel to Plymouth in hopes of being freed of the temptations that torment him, never expecting to encounter love again, amid a world of discovery and danger. |
|  | Richter, Daniel K., | | Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Past | | Spans more than seven centuries and ranges across North America, Europe, and Africa, as Richter shows that the U.S. has a much deeper history than is apparent -- that far from beginning with a clean slate, it is a nation with multiple pasts that stretch back as far as the Middle Ages, and whose legacies continue to shape the present. |
|  | Walker, Sally M. | | Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland | | Join the author as she works alongside scientists investigating colonial-era graves near Jamestown, Virginia: a teenage boy, a ship’s captain, an indentured servant, a colonial official and his family, and an enslaved African girl -- all are reaching beyond the grave to tell us their stories, which are written in bone. |
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