Historical - General
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The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
$21.00 Add to cartMeet Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teaches him to hunt
- Author: Taylor, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 16 2009
- ISBN10: 0061922978
- Language: English
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The Fortune Men
$17.00 Add to cartBOOKER PRIZE FINALIST – Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart … about the unjust death of an innocent Black man caught up in a corrupt system” (Walter Mosley… [more below]
- Author: Mohamed, Nadifa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593467434
- Language: English
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Shayna
$25.27 Add to cart“From frozen ground, flowers grow…”
1919 Ukraine – In a small trunk in the corner of an abandoned shed a young woman huddles hiding from the Cossacks ravaging her shtetl, burning homes, and killing
- Author: Black, Miriam Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: January 04, 2022
- ISBN10: 1952976316
- Language: English
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The Glassmaker’s Wife
$16.95 Add to cartIn August of 1844, a
The suspect? His
man named Leonard Reed takes violently ill at his home near Heathsville, Illinois,
and four days later he is dead. The cause? Arsenic poisoning.
wife, Betsey. The c- Author: Martin, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1950539482
- Language: English
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Crusader
$15.99 Read moreKING. POLITICIAN. WARRIOR. CONQUEROR.
1189. Richard the Lionheart’s long-awaited goal comes true as he is crowned King of England. Setting his own kingdom in order, he prepares to embark on a gruellin- Author: Kane, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 1409197816
- Language: English
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Shadowplay
$16.95 Read moreSet during the golden age of West End theater in a lamp-lit London shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper, Shadowplay is a gripping novel of love, celebrity, and ambition by New York Times best-selli
- Author: O’Connor, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 160945698X
- Language: English
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Savannah
$26.99 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
New York Times bestselling author Eugenia Price captivates audiences in this acclaimed first novel of the Savannah Quartet-an intimate portrait of desire and devotion in- Series: Savannah Quartet #1
- Author: Price, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 1620455013
- Language: English
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The Farming of Bones
$17.00 Add to cartIt is 1937 and Amabelle D sir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastien, a cane
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1616953497
- Language: English
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Dear Carrie: Letters from the Eastern Sierra 1878-1899
$23.95 Add to cartLetters written in 1878 by a young woman new to the West, and found in an old trunk in the twenty-first century, reveal the daily life of a bygone era in the towns along the Eastern Sierra of Californ… [more below]
- Author: Haun, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 09 2013
- ISBN10: 1593308280
- Language: English
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The Gilded Years
$18.99 Add to cartPassing meets The House of Mirth in this “utterly captivating” (Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House) historical novel based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, th… [more below]
- Author: Tanabe, Karin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1501110454
- Language: English
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An Unconditional Freedom: An Epic Love Story of the Civil War
$15.95 Add to cartAward-winning author Alyssa Cole returns with her highly-acclaimed Loyal League series exploring the untold role of people of color in the fight to end slavery. This time, an assassination plot could … [more below]
- Series: Loyal League #3
- Author: Cole, Alyssa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1496707486
- Language: English
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Equal of the Sun
$19.99 Add to cart*”Gripping.” —The Washington Post * ” A story of intrigue and action…[whose] scheming and parricide rival A Game of Thrones.” —San Francisco Chronicle*
Based loosely on the life of Princess Pari K- Author: Amirrezvani, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1451660472
- Language: English
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The Witch’s Tree
$18.99 Add to cart‘A wonderful book by a fabulous author, very highly recommended.’ Louise DouglasA tale as old as time. A spirit that has never rested.
Present dayAs a love affair comes to an end, and with it her dream
- Author: Collins, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1802800182
- Language: English
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The Trust
$26.00 Add to cart“A thrilling, action-filled suspense novel…. Those who loved Balson’s other books like Once We Were Brothers and Karolina’s Twins will love this latest entry.” —The Huffington Post
The Trust, from R- Series: Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart #4
- Author: Balson, Ronald H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1250127459
- Language: English
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Waiting in Weston
$17.95 Add to cartIn 1849, Dora Bentz Herter and her husband decide to leave their native Switzerland and start a new life in America, a journey of several thousand miles, which includes crossing an ocean in a ship des
- Author: Holmes, Deanne Macomber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1685709788
- Language: English
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From Superstition to Science: Lionardo DiCapua & the Uncertainty of Medicine
$25.95 Add to cartFrom Superstition to Science is a work of historical fiction based on the life of Lionardo DiCapua, born in Bagnoli, Irpino in 1617. The author was a protege of Lionardo writing the book in 1731 nearl
- Author: Magnotto, Luke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1954604084
- Language: English
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War Angel: Korea 1950
$21.95 Add to cartOn a pleasant New Hampshire summer day in 1950, an inexperienced US Army Reserve Surgical Nurse nestles at home with a newborn infant recently abandoned by her alcoholic sister-in-law. Just weeks earl
- Author: Weedall, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 197726428X
- Language: English
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The Gambler’s Game: Based on the True Story of the Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
$29.27 Add to cartBased on the True Story of the Only American to Break the Bank at Monte Carlo.
★★★★★ ” . . . a riveting exploration of a remarkable life.” – Readers Favorite
“Darnborough b
- Author: Darnborough, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: February 12, 2024
- ISBN10: 0997134054
- Language: English
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The Last Town on Earth
$17.00 Read moreA town under quarantine during the 1918 flu epidemic must reckon with forces beyond their control in a powerful, sweeping novel of morality in a time of upheaval
“An American variation on Albert Camus- Author: Mullen, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 31 2007
- ISBN10: 812975928
- Language: English
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Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears
$21.95 Add to cartSet against the tragic events of the Cherokees’ removal from their traditional lands in North Carolina to Indian Territory between 1835-1838, Mountain Windsong is a love story that brings to life the
- Author: Conley, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: October 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0806127465
- Language: English
