Historical
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From The Dead To You
$8.99 Add to cartThis book is a rare glimpse into the world of the dead, of their stories untold, and the life lessons that they wish to teach. Coming straight from the morgue, these are real people with real lives an
- Author: Lee, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890300898
- Language: English
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Running with Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults
$24.95 Add to cartOne of the most sought-after criminals of the Depression era, Ralph Fults began his career of crime at the improbable age of fourteen. At nineteen he met Clyde Barrow in a Texas prison, and the two me
- Author: Phillips, John Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0806134291
- Language: English
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
$24.00 Add to cartThe national bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wives of Henry VIII. France’s beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was the subjec… [more below]
- Author: Fraser, Antonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0385489498
- Language: English
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A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
$28.99 Add to cart“I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer,” John Muir wrote. “Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice… [more below]
- Author: Worster, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0199782245
- Language: English
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Destiny’s Daughter: Highlighting the life of Mary Edwards Walker, Maverick Suffragist, Doctor, and Medal of Honor Recipient: An Advocate f
$17.99 Add to cartDestiny’s Daughter by Frances Altman highlights events in the life of Mary Edwards Walker, maverick suffragist, Civil War doctor and only woman Medal of Honor recipient.
Follow in her steps, as Walker
- Author: Altman, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1627204237
- Language: English
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Queen Victoria: A Personal History
$24.95 Add to cartIn this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England’s great leaders, paints a fresh and intimate portrait of the woman who s… [more below]
- Author: Hibbert, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0306810859
- Language: English
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Waco: A Survivor’s Story
$19.99 Add to cartThe basis of the celebrated Paramount Network miniseries starring Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch — Waco is the critically-acclaimed, first person account of the siege by Branch Davidian survivor, … [more below]
- Author: Thibodeau, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1602865736
- Language: English
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American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post
$29.95 Add to cartAmerican Empress is a sweeping history of the dramatic life of heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, daughter of breakfast-cereal magnate C. W. Post. As a young girl growing up in the Midwest, Marjorie … [more below]
- Author: Stuart, Nancy Rubin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: January 04 2004
- ISBN10: 0595301460
- Language: English
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No Surrender: A Father, a Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism That Continues to Live on Today
$20.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of #1 New York Times bestsellers like Unbroken, Boys on the Boat, and Band of Brothers, No Surrender is an unforgettable story of a father’s extraordinary acts of valor in World War
- Author: Edmonds, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0062905023
- Language: English
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Boss: The story of S.F.B Morse, the founder of Pebble Beach
$29.99 Add to cart“Sam Morse could out-imagine anyone,” said Herb Cerwin, Del Monte PR man, drinking buddy and friend. Cerwin was right and he could have added that Morse turned these thoughts into reality.
Morse imagin
- Author: Osborne, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0692064710
- Language: English
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Founding Father
$18.99 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking look at George Washington as soldier and statesman, Richard Brookhiser traces the astonishing achievements of Washington’s career and illuminates how his character and his va… [more below]
- Author: Brookhiser, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0684831422
- Language: English
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Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
$18.00 Read moreThe compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, … [more below]
- Author: Applegate, Debby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0307744124
- Language: English
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The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew at His Side
$18.99 Add to cart“A thoroughly enjoyable story of heroism and true friendship” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), this is the true account of a German shepherd who was adopted by the Royal Air Force during World War
- Author: Lewis, Damien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 21, 2015
- ISBN10: 1476739153
- Language: English
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Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived
$20.00 Add to cartFrom an acclaimed literary biographer, a riveting and groundbreaking account of what happened to the survivors of the Titanic.
We think we know the story of the Titanic–the once majestic and supposed- Author: Wilson, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 1451671571
- Language: English
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Sam Houston
$55.43 Add to cartIn the decades preceding the Civil War, few figures in the United States were as influential or as controversial as Sam Houston. In Sam Houston, James L. Haley explores Houston’s momentous career and
- Author: Haley, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 513
- Publish Date: August 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0806136448
- Language: English
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Blackbeard: America’s Most Notorious Pirate
$34.99 Add to cartA thorough, exciting examination of 18th-century pirate life, with wonderful details.
“Interesting and exciting . . . a thoroughly enjoyable chronicle of an interesting life and int
–Publishers Weekly- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 047175885X
- Language: English
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Christopher Lee: Tall, Dark and Gruesome
$37.33 Add to cartInternational film actor Christopher Lee details his childhood, war years, friendships with Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, Robert Bloch and Boris Karloff, and, of course, his varied and interesting fil
- Author: Lee, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: November 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1887664254
- Language: English
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Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
$21.99 Add to cartThe astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family, and make a home in the early American South.
Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton- Author: Hamilton, Mary Mann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0316341371
- Language: English
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Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
$20.99 Add to cartFrom Thomas Jefferson’s birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America’s westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminat… [more below]
- Author: Morgan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1616201894
- Language: English
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The Orchard: A Memoir
$18.95 Read moreA stirring memoir of a young, single woman’s laborious struggle to save her family’s New England apple farm from going under during the Great Depression.
The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and p- Series: Nonpareil Books #9
- Author: Robertson, Adele Crockett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927262
- Language: English
