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A historical novel based on the life of Mary Rowlandson. Even before she was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, Mary Rowlandson sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger,...

"In the harsh wilderness of colonial Massachusetts, Martha Allen works as a servant in her cousin's household, taking charge and locking wills with everyone. Thomas Carrier labors for the family and is known both for his immense strength and size and mysterious past. The two begin a courtship that suits their independent natures, with Thomas slowly revealing the story of his part in the English Civil War. But in the rugged new world they inhabit,...

In "The New English Canaan," Thomas Morton presents a provocative narrative that challenges the Puritanical vision of the New World through a unique blend of travelogue, satire, and social commentary. Set against the backdrop of 17th-century colonial America, Morton depicts the struggles between the European settlers and the indigenous tribes, all while elaborating on the joys of the natural environment and the perils of religious extremism. His vivid...

Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," tries to make sense of her life and her self while a young girl in 1649 Boston.

Aissa, the teen-age fictional sister of Elizabeth Freeman, struggles against a system which declares that she is property and that she is to remain silent.

Recounts the story of the Boston Massacre, including the events that led up to British soldiers killing five colonists and how these events contributed to the beginning of the American Revolution.

Enemy of the state -- This impudent Puritan -- A masterpiece of woman's wit -- Strange opinions -- The end of all controversy -- As the lily among thorns -- From Boston to this wilderness -- A final act of defiance -- Not fit for out society -- The husband of Mistress Hutchinson -- An uneasy and constant watch -- A spirit of delusion and error -- A dangerous instrument of the devil -- The whore and strumpet of Boston -- Her heart was stilled -- This...

In 1631 Elizabeth Winthrop, newly widowed with an infant daughter, set sail for the New World. Against a background of rigidity and conformity she dared to befriend Anne Hutchinson at the moment of her banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; dared to challenge a determined army captain bent on the massacre of her friends, the Siwanoy Indians; and, above all, dared to love a man as her heart and her whole being commanded. And so, as a response...

A fictionalized biography of the girl who was brought to America from Gambia as a slave and who later gained fame as an African American poet of great renown, from her time in Africa until she gained her freedom.