Goodreads Giveaway June 26-July 8, 2025! Goodreads Book Giveaway
Hatfield 1677
by Laura C. Rader
Giveaway ends July 08, 2025.
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“Rader paints a stirring picture with the subtlest of brush strokes—this is no simplistic struggle between good and evil…Martha, in particular, is an impressively drawn character, deep and complex…overall, this is a moving work, dramatically compelling and historically searching.
An engrossing novel that challenges stale narratives of colonial America.”— Kirkus Reviews
Deerfield and the Connecticut River in Massachusetts
Photo by Tu Nguyen
Currently writing a sequel set between 1770 and 1777 in Hatfield/Hadley/Deerfield, Lexington & Concord, and Boston. A multiple POV epic historical fiction of the events leading up to the Revolutionary War and Declaration of Independence through the eyes of real people.
Stony Ground
Edwin Austin Abbey (American, 1852–1911). Stony Ground, 1884. Gouache on paper (watercolor), frame (storage dims): 40 1/4 × 60 × 4 1/2 in. (102.2 × 152.4 × 11.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Adler, 70.7 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 70.7_SL3.jpg)
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