Yankee Stranger

By Elswyth Thane,

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Williamsburg, Virginia, is once more the scene in this second book of Thane's series, but the time is now the 1860s. Some of the characters are the descendants of those in the first novel, Dawn's Early Light, and Grandmother Day, who was 16 when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, is now…

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1 author picked Yankee Stranger as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I loved this book, first of all, because it’s set during the Civil War and because the author has a way of making you love the characters from the first page. This series actually goes on for generations, but this was the first book I read of Thanes and I was hooked after that.

I also like the incredible research she did to make the plot historically accurate.

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