Topic - History
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Hot Victorians: Meet Your Dream Man from the Past
$18.99 Add to cart‘A delicious sepia wet dream of a book that had me drooling, swiping right and wanting to buy a time machine’ – Alan Carr
‘What a treat!’ – Dawn French ‘This book is brilliant fun – capturing the debo- Author: Radford-Wattley, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1529446651
- Language: English
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Bad Bitches of Antiquity: Badass Stories from Mythology’s Fiercest Goddesses, Heroines, Warriors, and Titans
$21.95 Add to cartA feminist retelling of the most formidable women in world mythology.
Move over, Zeus. The most powerful goddesses, mortals, and sorceresses of the ancient world have something to say. Bad Bitches of- Author: Wilder, Lorelei
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1637747047
- Language: English
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Don’t Lose Your Head: Life Lessons from the Six Ex-Wives of Henry VIII
$16.95 Read moreSurvive alongside Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, and the rest of King Henry VIII’s ill-fated wives with this witty book of essential life advice, history, and trivia–the perfect handbook for fans … [more below]
- Author: Marsden, Harriet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1646041291
- Language: English
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The History Gossip: A Slice of Ye Olde Scandal for Every Day of the Year
$26.00 Add to cartIn this exclusive book, Katie Kennedy of the hugely popular TikTok account @TheHistoryGossip delivers fascinating, witty, and salacious historical facts for every day of the year, proving that our sha… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Last Book on the Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History’s Most Notorious Serial Killers
$26.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An equal parts haunting and hilarious deep-dive review of history’s most notorious and cold-blooded serial killers, from the creators of the award-winning Last Podcast on- Author: Kissel, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1328566315
- Language: English
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Alexandra Petri’s Us History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)
$18.99 Add to cartAs a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn’t learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat histor
- Author: Petri, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074760
- Language: English
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The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments
$26.00 Add to cart“All at once funny, touching, dazzlingly informative and fascinating, brilliantly imaginative and altogether wonderful. Capable of switching between divine silliness and genuinely tender sweetness, tr… [more below]
- Author: Bliss, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0593977165
- Language: English
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The Neighborhood Gang: Memoirs of the 70s: A Decade of Change
$16.99 Add to cartThe Neighborhood Gang is a tale of fifteen friends growing up together in the seventies in a small, coastal, blue-collar town in Massachusetts called Weymouth. There were no movie stars in this gang o
- Author: Tracey, D. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: July 17 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218248352
- Language: English
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The World According to Cunk: An Illustrated History of All World Events Ever
$30.00 Add to cartRomans! Madrigals! The Dark Ages! Revolutions! Trumpets! The Oranges of The First World War! All of this (except trumpets) and more, is covered in this definitive, easy-clean history of all world hist… [more below]
- Author: Cunk, Philomena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1538773821
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
$16.95 Read moreA very funny view of the great, and nearly great, people throughout history by New Yorker humorist Will Cuppy.
Hysterically funny (yet historically accurate), Cuppy transforms luminaries such as Nero- Series: Nonpareil Books #31
- Author: Cuppy, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1567923771
- Language: English
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Action Philosophers: Hooked on Classics
$17.99 Read moreStudy the tenets of Plato, the wrestling superstar from ancient Greece, learn the lessons of Nietzsche, the original ?ermensch, and meditate on the messages of Bodhidharma, a kung fu master.
Laugh,- Series: Action Philosophers
- Author: Van Lente, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1952126711
- Language: English
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The Essential Handbook of Victorian Entertaining
$11.99 Read moreAn illustrated collection of amusing, authentic Victorian manners. Pick up the correct fork and dig into this delicious collection of Victorian society’s weird, crazy and strange rules concerning dinn
- Author: Stephens, Autumn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0912517549
- Language: English
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Edison’s Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
$19.99 Add to cartPublishers Weekly Best Summer Reads
Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there’s a finer line between “genius” and “idiot- Author: Spalding, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0316529540
- Language: English
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The Essential Handbook of Victorian Etiquette
$11.99 Add to cartEssential for understanding Victorian way of life, this is a very interesting book on the code of manners of Victorian behavior. This book is about life in the Victorian World when the British Empire
- Author: Hill, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0912517123
- Language: English
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The Way I Heard It
$18.99 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestselling must-read, executive producer and host of Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe presents a delightfully entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from A… [more below]
- Author: Rowe, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1982131470
- Language: English
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F*cking History: 111 Lessons You Should Have Learned in School
$18.00 Add to cartHistory that doesn’t suck: Smart, crude, and hilariously relevant to modern life.
Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. Too bad it’s usually boring as sh*t. Enter The Captain, the ulti- Author: The Captain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0593189418
- Language: English
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Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America
$24.99 Add to cartA quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren’t attractive, well-spoken, demure, or sinless enough to receive their rightful place in history, until … [more below]
- Author: Oneill, Therese
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1982199709
- Language: English
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Alexandra Petri’s Us History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)
$27.95 Add to cartAs a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn’t learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat histor
- Author: Petri, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: 11-Apr-23
- ISBN10: 1324006439
- Language: English
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Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena
$30.00 Add to cartA VULTURE BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2023
From the star of the “deeply funny, unexpectedly informative” (The Daily Beast) Netflix mockumentary Cunk on Earth, a helpful guide covering every single topic in t- Author: Cunk, Philomena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1538766760
- Language: English
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Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
$28.00 Add to cartA humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken b… [more below]
- Author: Offerman, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1101984694
- Language: English
