Modern Civil War Fiction

Civil war reenactors have set up camp on the grounds of Marshfield Manor. The group is very believable, especially when the unrest spills out of the barracks and inside the sumptuous mansion. Grace Wheaton, the curator and manager of the manor, manages to settle a minor squabble but loses the war when actor Zachary Kincade is found stabbed to death.

A natural disaster was only the beginning. What comes next will test who they are—and who they’re willing to become. Seventeen-year-old Anneliese Morgan was living a normal life—4-H, softball, a future she could almost taste. Then the sky cracked open. A chain of catastrophic disasters shatters the Midwest, leaving cities in ruins and order in freefall. Her older brother, Caleb, is suddenly the only person she can count on, back from a year off-grid with their survivalist father. Alongside him is Evie, the girl he left behind—the girl Annie never expected to rely on. With home ...

When a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesn't realize the price he will pay for giving up his past... Casablanca's stinking alleys are the only home that nineteen-year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, he dreams of escape -...

A new collection from an audacious, humorous poet celebrated for his "sky-blue originality of utterance" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) Michael Robbins's first two books of poetry were raucous protests lodged from the frontage roads and big-box stores of off-ramp America. With Walkman, he...