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  I Am Murdered

  George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation

  by Bruce Chadwick

  "A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state." —Publishers Weekly George Wythe clung to the mahogany banister as he inched down the staircase of his comfortable Richmond, Virginia, home. Doubled over in agony, he stumbled to the kitchen in search of help. There he found his maid, Lydia Broadnax, and his young... (more)
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  Kay Scarpetta: Book 1

  Postmortem

  by Patricia Cornwell

  Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer whose signature offers precious few clues. With an unerring eye, she calls on the latest advances in forensic research to unmask the madman. But this investigation will test Kay... (more)
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  Kay Scarpetta: Book 3

  All That Remains

  by Patricia Cornwell

  #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell's heart-stopping thriller featuring gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president's newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr. Kay Scarpetta knows time is short. Following... (more)
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  Two Girls of Gettysburg

  by Lisa M. Klein

  Lizzie and Rosanna are cousins. But when the Civil War breaks out, fifteen-year-old Lizzie finds herself committed to the cause of the Union, while Rosanna is swept up in the passions of the old south—and in her love for a young Confederate officer. Torn in their alliances, yet as devoted as sisters, each girl finds herself grappling with the senseless brutality of war, and the sacrifices that must be made in... (more)
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  Noir City Series

  Richmond Noir

  “I would rather die in Richmond somehow, though God knows Richmond has little enough to offer.”—Henry Miller Brand-new stories by: Tom Robbins, Laura Browder, Howard Owen, Yazmina Beverly, Tom De Haven, X.C. Atkins, Meagan J. Saunders, Anne Thomas Soffee, Clint McCown, Conrad Ashley Persons, Clay McLeod Chapman, Pir Rothenberg, David L. Robbins, Hermine Pinson, and Dennis Danvers. Andrew Blossom is the... (more)
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  Raleigh Harmon: Book 1

  The Stones Cry Out

  by Sibella Giorello

  When nobody talks... the stones cry out. During a rally in the searing heat of a Virginia summer, two men plummet from a building into the crowd below. The victims are a white police officer and a young black man with a troubled past. And though hundreds of people stood at the scene, nobody saw what happened. Or are they just not talking? FBI agent Raleigh Harmon, one of Richmond's own, has to solve the... (more)
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  Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy

  by Elizabeth R. Varon

  Northern sympathizer in the Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the most remarkable figures in American history, a woman who defied the conventions of the nineteenth-century South. In Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, historian Elizabeth Varon provides a gripping, richly researched account of the woman who led what one historian called "the most productive espionage... (more)
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  Richmond Burning

  The Last Days of the Confederate Capital

  by Nelson D. Lankford

  Nelson Lankford draws upon Civil War-era diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspaper reports to vividly recapture the experiences of the men and women, both black and white, who witnessed the tumultuous fall of Richmond. In April 1865 General Robert E. Lee realized that his army must retreat from the Confederate capital and that Jefferson Davis's government must flee. As the Southern soldiers moved out they set the... (more)
• Ghosts of RichmondL. B., Jr. Taylor

  

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  Ghosts of Richmond

  by L. B. Taylor

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  At the Falls: Richmond, Virginia, and Its People

  by Marie Tyler-McGraw

  In this richly illustrated book, Marie Tyler-McGraw presents almost 400 years of Richmond's history, covering a rich and complex past that stretches from Powhatan's encounter with English adventurers to the inauguration of attorney Douglas Wilder as the nation's first elected African American governor. Lying at the fall line of the James River, Richmond was a transshipment point for the products of colonial... (more)
• Richmond: An Illustrated HistoryHarry M. Ward

  

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  Richmond: An Illustrated History

  by Harry M. Ward

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  Brittany

  by Loretta Walls

  BRIAN. BYRON. RALPH. MITCHELL. The four men that made Brittany Townsend⿿s unique life heaven and hell. A gifted dancer hailing from Richmond⿿s Southside, she was determined to make it to Broadway⿦until someone threw salt in the game⿦ DOMIN
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  Runner

  by Robert Newton

  Charlie's father is dead, and although his mother insists he stay in school, Charlie has no patience for the classroom. All he wants is to make money, to give his mother and baby brother a better life. So when he catches the eye of Squizzy Taylor, a notorious mobster, and is offered a job as Squizzy's courier, it doesn't take Charlie long to accept—even if he has to go against his own mother's wishes. At first,... (more)
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  Great Leaders

  Queen Elizabeth I

  by Betka Zamoyska

  "How haps it? Yesterday my Lady Princess, today but my Lady Elizabeth," two-year-old Elizabeth is said to have remarked after her mother, Ann Boleyn, was beheaded and the little girl was declared illegitimate. She was thirteen-and-a-half when her father, King Henry VIII, died, and by then she was well skilled in the art of survival. She was twenty-five on her succession to the throne and determined to demonstrate... (more)
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  Richmond: The Story of a City

  by Virginius Dabney

  "Richmond: The Story of a City" chronicles the growth of this historic community over nearly four centuries from its founding in the early 1700s by William Byrd II to its most recent urban and suburban developments. In this expanded edition Virginius Dabney updates his history by examining the developments in racial relations, cultural institutions, and downtown architecture that have taken place in Richmond over... (more)
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  Passion

  by Marilyn Pappano

  Obtaining the first public interview with reclusive writer Simon Tremont, successful literary agent Teryl Weaver is astounded when she enters a passionate relationship with a man who claims to be the real Tremont.
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  Haunting Rachel

  by Kay Hooper

  Danger wears many faces.... Ten years ago Rachel Grant's fiancé, Thomas, disappeared. His body was never found. Now there's a stranger in town, a man who could be Thomas's twin--or his ghost. His name is Adam Delafield. He's been watching Rachel for days. He has the locket she gave Thomas before he vanished. And he says he owed her father three million dollars. But there's no record of the loan—or a shred of... (more)
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  House Divided

  by Ben Ames Williams

  First published in 1947, this bestselling historical novel is cherished and remembered as one of the finest retellings of the Civil War saga—America's own War and Peace . In the first hard pinch of the Civil War, five siblings of an established Confederate Virginia family learn that their father is the grandfather of Abraham Lincoln. The family's story, and the story of their descendants, is presented in this... (more)
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  Kay Scarpetta: Book 2

  Body of Evidence

  by Patricia Cornwell

  #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this suspense fiction classic. Reclusive author Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls -- or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic... (more)
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  A Yankee Spy in Richmond: The Civil War Diary of "Crazy Bet" Van Lew

  by Elizabeth L. Van Lew

  Many civilians on both sides during the Civil War hoped to support the war effort as spies, but only a few actually became useful agents. One of the most effective-and least known-was a woman living in the heart of Confederate Richmond. Elizabeth Van Lew, called 'Crazy Bet' by her suspicious and condescending neighbours, maintained contact with Union authorities throughout most of the war and earned the thanks of... (more)