"I wish some great catastrophe would happen to somebody (not me, of course) so that I might have something of importance to set down in my journal. But, I suppose everyone's journal (who is foolish enough...

<p>Young&nbsp;<b>Enoch Perley</b>&nbsp;grows to manhood at a pivotal time in the nation's history. He listens by the fireside to stories of war and adventure told by his swashbuckling...

<p><em>"He sat at his own table that night, a lonely old man, missing the spirit and the laughter that once filled his house—a house he'd built with his own hands all those long years ago....

MathildeMathilde runs from the cruelty of slavery and makes her way North, helped along the way by Quakers and abolitionists. She encounters danger with every step, never sure who is a helper and who...