Holland Press: 2 books

  Greedy and impatient, tuberculosis, the nineteenth-century plague, relentlessly devoured its victims. With its bone-shivering fevers, delirium, and blood-engorged lungs, the “red death” indiscriminately killed thousands, leaving shattered and defeated families its wake.   Set in the majestic,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBMCJpcQgyE Raised on a farm, Tabitha Salt, the daughter of Irish immigrants, leads a bucolic and sheltered existence. When tragedy strikes the family, Tabitha and her mother are forced to move to the notorious Five Points District in New York City, know for...