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Inheriting the trade

a Northern family confronts its legacy as the largest slave-trading dynasty in U.S. history
2008
The author, along with other members of his family, extensively research their family's heritage revealing their relationship to the most successful slave-trade family in American history.

The painted drum

2005
Faye Travers, a middle-aged divorcee and specialist in Native American antiquities, discovers a rare ceremonial drum while assessing the estate of a New Hampshire man descended from an Indian agent, and, when she hears the sound of the drum without even touching the instrument, she feels compelled to steal it and return it to a North Dakota reservation where its remarkable history is revealed.

The probable future

2003
Stella Sparrow, the latest in a long history of Sparrow women to have special gifts, discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she can see the future, an ability that has both positive and negative effects on her life and her family members.

Little men

1986
Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.

Here on earth

1997
March Murray returns to her New England hometown with her teenage daughter, supposedly to attend the funeral of her old housekeeper, but in the back of her mind March knows she is headed for a reunion with Hollis, the boy she has loved since childhood.

Vietnam in American literature

1990
Examines the connections between colonial ideology and contemporary American writing and films concerning the Vietnam experience.

Squanto

a friend to the Pilgrims
2007
Describes the life of Squanto, a Wampanoag Indian who helped the Pilgrims survive in the New World.

Jo's boys

1994
Recounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of the numerous young men of Plumfield school. Sequel to "Little Men.".

Little men

life at Plumfield with Jo's boys
1994
Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.

Timberrr--

a history of logging in New England
2003
An illustrated history of the New England forests, from colonial days when settlers freely used the trees for warmth and housing to today's tensions between environmentalists and the logging industry.

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