17 Books to Pick Up This Winter
Doubting daughters, enterprising émigrés, lost lovers.
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Deliverance Mary Fields
By Miantae Metcalf McConnell
530 pages;
Huzzah Publishing
An indefatigable former slave who braved the Montana Rockies on a journey to rescue a dying friend is the real-life subject of this 19th-century frontier narrative. Adventure abounds in this little-known tale of the heroic middle-aged woman who became the first female African American mail carrier in the U.S.
— Hamilton Cain
Published 01/14/2018
