A comprehensive study of the treatment African Americans have received since arriving in Virginia in 1619, documents racism and white supremacy, history often omitted by schools. Numerous tables, photographs, maps and charts make the study easy to read and provide documentation. Chapters cover slavery, US Colored Troops in the Civil War, the South’s devastation, evolution of the process of Emancipation, and Reconstruction. Others address the Freedmen's Bureau, "Redemption" and the "Lost Cause," Jim Crow, blacks' significant military contributions in both…

2018 American Fiction Awards finalist & 2018 PenCraft Awards Winner for Literary Excellence two mysteries from the seaside town of Crab Cove, testing the mettle of "almost handsome" Detective Simon Grave and his "nearly invisible" partner, Sergeant Barry Blunt, who investigate a locked-room mystery with a significant twist: the prime suspects are in the locked room, not the victim, a logic-defying situation that challenges the team at every turn.

What if the ice caps melted . . . in one human lifespan? The Melt Trilogy is a set of speculative sci-fi novels exploring a ‘What If’ scenario of a complete melting of the ice caps, caused by climate change. The series explores the impacts of humans on the Earth and the toll of overpopulation, particularly in an era of reduced landmass due to rising seas. However, I was primarily interested in the consequences to human civilization of such a…

In 1946, a returning WWII veteran is determined to reclaim his place among professional baseball's upper echelon and win back the woman he once fell for. Two months into the new season, he abandons his team, casting aside his fame and riches and vanishing forever from the public eye. What drives a man to walk away from everything he cherishes?

We are delighted to welcome back Handley High School Graduate and award winning poet Irène Mathieu to the Winchester Book Gallery. Her first book of poetry, Oregeny, has been a huge hit here at the shop and we look forward to her latest collection – Grand Marronage. In Louisiana and other parts of the American South, the Caribbean, and South America, escaped African and Native peoples formed "maroon communities" deep in swamps and mountains. Historians refer to the permanent establishment…

This is the first book-length, critical analysis of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's actions at the Battle of Gettysburg. The author argues that Longstreet's record has been discredited unfairly, beginning with character assassination by his contemporaries after the war and, persistently, by historians in the decades since. By closely studying the three-day battle, and conducting an incisive historiographical inquiry into Longstreet's treatment by scholars, this book presents an alternative view of Longstreet as an effective military leader, and refutes over a…

Join us online as we welcome one of our favorite local authors, Ellen Crosby, to share her new book, The French Paradox. Ellen will be joined by fellow mystery author Colleen Shogan, who is Senior Vice President at the White House Historical Association. It promises to be a lively conversation.⁠ ⁠ In The French Paradox, Lucie Montgomery's discovery of her grandfather's Parisian romance unlocks a series of shocking secrets in the gripping new Wine Country mystery.⁠