973 Carroll, Andrew: HERE IS WHERE: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

Join this fascinating tour of our country's overlooked but significant historical sites.  The breezy writing style adds to the fun.

THE DARING LADIES OF LOWELL by Kate Alcott

In the nineteenth century, New England farm girls sought independence by laboring in

cotton mills.  This atmospheric story is built around a real-life murder and the sensational trial that followed.

BURIAL RITES by Hannah Kent

 

Iceland, 1878:  a woman convicted of murder is sent to live with a farm family while awaiting execution.  A pageturner, and it's a true story.

FROG MUSIC by Emma Donoghue

 

In 1876 San Francisco, the unlikely friendship of a burlesque dancer and a cross-dressing frog catcher anchors

this earthy, colorful, wildly entertaining historical fiction.