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Journey to the Bottomless Pit

The Story of Stephen Bishop & Mammoth Cave
2006
In 1838, as the nation struggles with issues of slavery, seventeen-year-old Stephen Bishop serves his master as a guide in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave and spends his free time exploring and discovering new passages and rooms.

Black cloud

the great Florida hurricane of 1928
2003
Chronicles the events surrounding the unnamed hurricane of 1928, which took the lives of 2,500 Florida men, women, and children and was one of the deadliest storms on record.

Neil Armstrong is my uncle & other lies Muscle Man McGinty told me

a novel
2009
Tamara dreams of the day when ten-year-old Muscle Man McGinty's constant lies catch up to him, but when an incredible event takes place in the summer of 1969, her outlook on life is altered in the most surprising way.

Dark tide

the great Boston molasses flood of 1919
2004
Chronicles the January 15, 1919 Boston Molasses Flood that killed twenty-one people when over two million gallons of molasses poured out of the steel tank that stored it and traveled through the city's North End.

Ragtime

1991

Ragtime

2007
Three remarkable families lives' become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the century.

Firehorse

2010
Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby is determined to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.

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