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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
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The Forgotten Seamstress
$14.99 Read more“An intriguing patchwork of past and present, upstairs and downstairs, hope and despair.”–Daisy Goodwin, New York Times bestselling author of The American Heiress
A moving story of two women tied toge
- Author: Trenow, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1402282486
- Language: English
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High Bridge
$32.95 Add to cartUpstate New York in the mid-19th century is a cauldron bubbling with the lure of fast fortunes, religious zealotry, and battles for civil liberties. This fervor centers on the Erie Canal, which succes
- Author: Miller, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1646638131
- Language: English
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Reefs and Shoals
$25.00 Add to cartPity poor Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy! He’s been torn away from a warm shore bed–and the viscount’s daughter who shared it with him–and ordered by Admiralty to the Bahamas, into the teeth of fer
- Series: Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures (Paperback) #18
- Author: Lambdin, Dewey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1250022037
- Language: English
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Liv’s Secrets
$24.95 Add to cartLiv’s Secrets is a passionately envisaged saga of one fictional South African Jewish family, the Weiszs, immigrants from Eastern Europe. One among a great wave of Jewish immigrants in the latter part
- Author: Levine, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1956450505
- Language: English
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Kringle
$18.95 Add to cartA young carpenter journeys to the German heartland to join his cousin and make his fortune in the guilds of a 1500s free imperial city. While advancing in his craft and forging friendships with his ne
- Author: Kee, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887514451
- Language: English
