Historical - General
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Estaba La Pajara Pinta Sentada En El Verde Limon
$29.95 Read moreThis work has become, over time, a milestone in Colombian literature and one of the most studied texts to understand the origin of the violence that still plagues this country today. Its fresh and ric… [more below]
- Author: Angel, Albalucia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 8419179876
- Language: Spanish
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Let the Dead Bury the Dead
$30.00 Add to cartAn urgent, immersive alternate history set in an imperial Russia on the brink of disaster, following a surprising cast of characters seeking a better future as Saint Petersburg struggles in the wake o… [more below]
- Author: Epstein, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 059386316X
- Language: English
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The Chronicles of Paisley – Corners
$14.99 Add to cartCanadian nurse Kick Cavendish has always wanted to make a difference, and she’s hoping her new post as Paisley – Corners’ new public health nurse will help her do just that. The rural Ontario hamlet i… [more below]
- Author: Van Daalen-Smith, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1039162894
- Language: English
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Flint’s Fist
$20.00 Add to cartFlint’s Fist offers a fresh twist on a classic tale. Ben Gunn, a carpenter’s boy, dreams of escaping 18th century London to find the “happy isles” of peace and contentment. But when he and his friend … [more below]
- Author: Martin, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 486
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218302894
- Language: English
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No Perfect Mothers
$25.00 Read moreWhile 1920s Charlottesville, Virginia, is a charming place to grow up, there’s one thing Carrie Buck doesn’t like about her hometown–her home. Taken from her mother, Carrie is put up for fostering as… [more below]
- Author: Zacharias, Karen Spears
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 088146919X
- Language: English
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The Return of the Caravels
$17.00 Add to cartCalled “hallucinatory and lyrical” (Publishers Weekly), The Return of the Caravels — selected as a New York times Summer Reading title — is a powerful indictment of Portuguese colonialism and anothe… [more below]
- Series: Antunes, Antonio Lobo
- Author: Antunes, António Lobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0802139558
- Language: English
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The Battle
$17.00 Add to cartThe winner of the Prix Goncourt and Grand Prix du Roman de l’Academie Francaise, The Battle is a brilliant, compelling novelization of the battle of Essling, Napoleon’s first major defeat. The battle … [more below]
- Author: Rambaud, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0802138101
- Language: English
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The Marrow of Tradition
$8.00 Add to cartIn this landmark tale, one of the great American novelists exposed the harsh dimensions of Southern prejudice during post-Reconstruction era. Charles W. Chesnutt traces the intertwined lives of two pr… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Chesnutt, Charles W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0486838374
- Language: English
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A Separate Country: A Story of Redemption in the Aftermath of the Civil War
$24.99 Add to cartSet in New Orleans in the years after the Civil War, A Separate Country is based on the incredible life of John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controversial generals of the Confederate Army–and … [more below]
- Author: Hicks, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0446581658
- Language: English
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Fortune’s Rocks
$24.99 Add to cartThis magnificent novel transports readers to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the social orbit of a spirited young woman who falls into a passionate,… [more below]
- Author: Shreve, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 02 2001
- ISBN10: 0316678104
- Language: English
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I Capture the Castle
$25.00 Add to cartOne of the 20th century’s most beloved novels is still winning hearts, Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle!
“This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I’ve ever met.” — J.K. Rowling, author- Author: Smith, Dodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031231616X
- Language: English
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All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
$14.99 Add to cart“Brilliantly imagined in its harrowing account of the Chernobyl disaster and exhilarating in its sweep, All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a debut to rattle all the windows and open up the ventricles
- Author: McKeon, Darragh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0062246879
- Language: English
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The Kept
$15.99 Add to cart“Dark and mysterious. . . . A novel whose daring is found in its bleakness. . . . The plot unfolds with a weighty languor reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy. . . sparse, elegant. . . haunting.” — New Yor
- Series: P.S. (Paperback)
- Author: Scott, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0062236652
- Language: English
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
$19.00 Add to cart“[An] engrossing story…endearing and memorable.”
—Boston Herald“[An] arresting hybrid of mystery, fairy tale, and historical novel.”
—Detroit Free Press
“A tale so movingly told that you will say at- Author: Maguire, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0060987529
- Language: English
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Brother Cadfael’s Penance
$25.99 Add to cartTo save his estranged son, a monk risks breaking his vows in this “moving and suspenseful” entry in the Silver Dagger Award-winning medieval mystery series (Booklist).
For Brother Cadfael in the autu- Series: Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #20
- Author: Peters, Ellis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1504067614
- Language: English
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Horns of Dilemma: The Brigandshaw Chronicles Book 7
$19.99 Add to cartWith rumours swirling of his parentage, Frank Brigandshaw wants answers: Who put horns on his father’s head?
Returning to England, Frank is heading down two paths. One to make them, the m nage trois
- Series: Brigandshaw Chronicles #7
- Author: Rimmer, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1916353401
- Language: English
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Greezy Creek
$29.95 Add to cartKentucky’s Appalachian Highlands (circa. 1930’s) is a world where habits and customs often bewilder: where the ties of kinship and ancestry hold to unswerving lines, where moonshiners leave incipient … [more below]
- Author: Justice, George R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 590
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1950895203
- Language: English
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Coal Black Horse
$13.95 Add to cartWhen Robey Childs’s mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: she sends her only child to find his father on the battlefield and bring … [more below]
- Author: Olmstead, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 229
- Publish Date: May 20 2008
- ISBN10: 1565126017
- Language: English
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The Magician’s Lie
$16.99 Add to cartA USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
“This is a book in which storylines twist, spiral and come together again in an ending as explosive as a poof of smoke from your chimney…or a top hat.”–Oprah.com
Master of his
- Author: Macallister, Greer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1492628999
- Language: English
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The Handsome Road
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times-bestselling author Gwen Bristow brings to life Civil War-era Louisiana in the impassioned, poignant story of a plantation mistress and a poor seamstress–and the men they love–whose li… [more below]
- Series: Plantation Trilogy #2
- Author: Bristow, Gwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1480485365
- Language: English
