"Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods around a one-room cabin where nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his mother's deathbed. Only later does the grieving son learn that his mother's fatal affliction was the work of a vampire. Gifted with legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead all the way to the White House. Lincoln is lauded for saving the Union and freeing millions...

A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era. At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom. Song of the Shank opens in 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that...

In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.