Historical
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Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley
$21.95 Add to cartWith a widowed mother and six siblings, Annie Oakley first became a trapper, hunter, and sharpshooter simply to put food on the table. Yet her genius with the gun eventually led to her stardom in Buff
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #7
- Author: Riley, Glenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0806135069
- Language: English
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Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad
$18.99 Add to cartBeyond the River brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad.
From the highest hill above the town of Ripley, Ohio, you ca- Author: Hagedorn, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0684870665
- Language: English
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Wagon Wheels A’Rollin’
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Ackley, Daisy Belle Catherine Brown Pier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0595744230
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
$18.99 Add to cartThe thrilling family saga of five unforgettable women who remade Europe.
From the great courts, glittering palaces, and war-ravaged battlefields of the seventeenth century comes the story of four spi- Author: Goldstone, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0316387894
- Language: English
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered Teh Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to th
$27.99 Add to cartA New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice’s biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice … [more below]
- Author: Rice, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 702
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 030681028X
- Language: English
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The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People
$19.95 Add to cartThis beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin’s Driftless region. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, … [more below]
- Author: Logan, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0299309045
- Language: English
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Alexander I
$44.95 Add to cartAlexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his f
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Rey, Marie-Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: November 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0875804667
- Language: English
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Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton
$59.99 Add to cartThis richly detailed 1981 biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Paperback Library
- Author: Westfall, Richard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: April 29 1983
- ISBN10: 0521274354
- Language: English
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Heinrich Himmler
$37.99 Add to cartHeinrich Himmler was an unremarkable looking man. Yet he was Hitler’s top enforcer, in charge of the Gestapo, the SS, and the so-called Final Solution. We can only wonder, as biographer Peter Longeric… [more below]
- Author: Longerich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0199651744
- Language: English
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Benjamin Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 23rd President, 1889-1893
$33.99 Add to cartThe scion of a political dynasty ushers in the era of big government
An engrossing ferry to 19th century America, Benjamin Harrison is sure to capture every political enthusiast’s attention. Join Char- Series: American Presidents
- Author: Calhoun, Charles W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0805069526
- Language: English
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Wild Bunch Women
$12.95 Add to cartExplore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who hung out with Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch outlaw gang.
- Author: Rutter, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0762725850
- Language: English
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo De’ Medici
$21.00 Add to cartA vividly colorful portrait of one of the greatest and most fascinating figures of the Renaissance, Lorenzo de’ Medici, focusing on his role as a brilliant–sometimes ruthless–statesman who was respo… [more below]
- Author: Unger, Miles J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 074325435X
- Language: English
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The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza De’ Medici
$18.99 Add to cartThe astonishing life of Caterina Sforza, one of the most prominent women of Renaissance Italy, who was a wife, mother, leader, and warrior with enough fierceness to make Machiavelli himself wince.
In t… [more below]
- Author: Lev, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0547844166
- Language: English
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And the World Closed Its Doors: The Story of One Family Abandoned to the Holocaust
$21.99 Add to cartIn this masterpiece of Holocaust literature, David Clay Large tells the wrenching story of Max Schohl, a German Jew who, in the midst of the Second World War, could not find a government that would al… [more below]
- Author: Large, David Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: July 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0465038093
- Language: English
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Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
$14.95 Add to cartSince its publication in 1996, Holy Land has become an American classic. In “quick, translucent prose” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) that is at once lyrical and unsentimental, D. J. Waldie recoun
- Author: Waldie, D. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327280
- Language: English
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Joseph Banks: A Life
$23.00 Add to cartOne of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history’s most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O’Brian’s biography of naturalist, explorer and co-founder of A… [more below]
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: December 08 1997
- ISBN10: 0226616282
- Language: English
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Lucie’s Hope: George Levy Mueller’s Memoirs of the Holocaust
$18.00 Add to cartLucie’s Hope follows George Mueller’s life from a secure childhood in Germany before the Second World War, to his family’s persecution by the Nazi Party. George’s account chronicles losing both his pa
- Author: Mueller, George Levy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: March 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1930546297
- Language: English
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Stay Alive, My Son
$17.95 Add to cartIn Stay Alive, My Son, Pin Yathay provides an unforgettable testament of the horror that ensued and a gripping account of personal courage, sacrifice and survival.
Documenting the 27 months from the a- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: Yathay, Pin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0671663941
- Language: English
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Last Man Down: A Firefighter’s Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center
$7.99 Read moreA first responder’s harrowing account of 9/11–the inspirational true story of an American hero who gave nearly everything for others during one of New York City’s darkest hours.
On September 11, 2001- Author: Picciotto, Richard
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0425189880
- Language: English
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
$29.99 Add to cartTelling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, Admiral of the Ocean Sea is a vivid and definitive biography of Columbus that details all of his voyages that, for better or worse, changed the wo… [more below]
- Author: Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: October 12 1991
- ISBN10: 0316584789
- Language: English
