THE CIVIL WAR
• An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, Alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862-1864 by Lauren M. Cook
• Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse and Spy: A Woman’s Adventures in the Union Army by Sarah Emma Edmonds
• Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America’s Bloodiest Day by William Fassanito
• Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas by John J. Hennessy
• The Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears
• The Soldier’s Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War by Robert E. Bonner
• Reluctant Witnesses: Childrens’ Voices From the Civil War by Emmy E. Werner
• The Stories Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell: Sex in the Civil War by Thomas P. Lowry
• They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War by Deanne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook
• The 1862 Army Officer’s Pocket Companion by William P. Craighill
• Lincoln Day by Day A Chronology 1809-1865 Volume III: 1861-1865
• Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America by Allen C. Guezlo
• Everyday Life in the Civil War by Michael J. Varhola
• Instructions for guards and pickets : being a manual compiled for the use of Civil War living historians, embracing Guard Mount and the relief of sentinels, duties of the members of the guard, police and general officers’ guards, grand guards, and pickets, advanced and rear guards and flankers
• The Official Atlas of the Civil War by Thomas Yoselof
• Four Days in October: Lincoln and McClellan by John W. Schildt
FARMING
• Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England by Thomas C. Hubka
• A Long Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming in New England by Howard S. Russell
• The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States by Janine M. Benyus
HISTORICAL FICTION
• True Grit by Charles Portis
• Away by Amy Bloom
• Away by Jane Urquhart
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher
• Unraveling by Elizabeth Graver
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
• Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
• The Jump Off Creek by Molly Gloss
• Crown of Dust by Mary Volmer
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