Historical - General
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When Christ and His Saints Slept
$20.00 Add to cartA.D. 1135. As church bells tolled for the death of England’s King Henry I, his barons faced the unwelcome prospect of being ruled by a woman: Henry’s beautiful daughter Maude, Countess of Anjou. But b… [more below]
- Author: Penman, Sharon Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: February 06 1996
- ISBN10: 345396685
- Language: English
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Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher
$26.99 Add to cartBecky Thatcher wants to set the record straight. She was never the weeping ninny Mark Twain made her out to be in his famous novel. She knew Samuel Clemens before he was Mark Twain, when he was a wide
- Author: Hart, Lenore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0312539657
- Language: English
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Staying on
$21.00 Add to cartIn this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating he… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743497
- Language: English
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The Crimson Petal and the White
$18.99 Add to cartA teenage prostitute ascends through the many layers of Victorian London society in this highly acclaimed “big, sexy, bravura novel” (New York Times).
London, 1870s. At the heart of this panoramic narr… [more below]
- Author: Faber, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0156028778
- Language: English
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Season of the Gods
$18.00 Read moreA woman in wartime Hollywood and her dream of the perfect motion picture. Renie Lee has climbed the ladder in a man’s world to be head of the Story Department at Warner Bros. Studios. Renie is an idea… [more below]
- Author: Matzen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 486
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1735273872
- Language: English
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Caesar’s Women
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough re-creates an extraordinary epoch before the mighty Republic belonged to Julius Caesar–when Rome’s noblewomen were his greatest conquest.
His victo
- Series: Masters of Rome #4
- Author: McCullough, Colleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0061582425
- Language: English
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Beyond All Sense and Reason
$20.00 Add to cart“It’s not so easy being colored, is it?” I asked him.
Jackie half-smiled at my remark.
“Nope,” he said. “It’s not. Not always. Not every day.”
Life can be complicated when you’re a fifteen year-old white
- Author: Diccicco, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 09 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985318920
- Language: English
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March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2
$29.00 Add to cartAleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s March 1917, Book 2, covers three days of the February Revolution when the nation unraveled, leading to the Bolshevik takeover eight months later.
The Red Wheel is Nobel Prize-w
- Series: Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 728
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 026810686X
- Language: English
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Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation
$14.99 Add to cartHarriet is an intriguing and original “take” on Jane Austen’s immortal Emma, by Publishers Weekly‘s 2021 BookLife Prize Quarterfinalist, Alice McVeigh.
Emma, a privileged young heiress, decides t
- Series: Warleigh Hall Press Jane Austen #2
- Author: McVeigh, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: February 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1916882331
- Language: English
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The Potter’s Field
$26.00 Add to cartThe medieval monk digs for clues when a body is unearthed by a plow: “His detecting talents are as dazzling as ever” (Publishers Weekly).
When a newly plowed field recently given to the Benedictine A- Series: Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #17
- Author: Peters, Ellis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1504067584
- Language: English
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Signed, A Paddy
$17.99 Add to cartThe gruesome truth hung in the air, and none of us wanted to go near it. Not yet.
Ireland, 1848. Fourteen-year-old Rosaleen watches her mother die. Her country is reeling from the great potato famine,
- Series: Paddy #1
- Author: Boyle, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: June 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1736607715
- Language: English
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Morgan’s Station: The Last Indian Raid in Kentucky
$16.95 Add to cart______________________________________________________________
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NUMB. XXIX Quidquid agunt homines-nostri farrago libelli. Juv. Sat. 8. v. 8 VOL. VI
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- Author: Bishop, Charles Jay, II
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 16 2021
- ISBN10: 163692140X
- Language: English
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Yonder
$27.00 Read moreThe Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-19th century.
They call th- Author: Asim, Jabari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 198216316X
- Language: English
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The Tubman Command
$16.99 Add to cartFor fans of the hit movie Harriet, from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Hamilton Affair, a novel of Harriet Tubman and her Civil War raid that freed more than 750 enslaved men, women, … [more below]
- Author: Cobbs, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1950691683
- Language: English
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The Painter’s Apprentice: A Novel of 16th-Century Venice
$19.99 Add to cartWould you rather sacrifice your livelihood, your lover, or your life? When the Black Death comes knocking on your door, you’d better decide quickly.
Venice, 1510. Maria Bartolini wants nothing more tha
- Series: Venetian Artisans #1
- Author: Morelli, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1942778929
- Language: English
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A Walk on Broken Glass: Elisabeth, Empress of Austria
$18.95 Add to cartBorn of royal blood, 15-year-old Elisabeth (Sisi) is a free-spirited child of nature with no social graces to speak of when Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria, falls madly in love with her. In 1854, as
- Author: Allan, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1926991796
- Language: English
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The Lark
$16.99 Add to cart“Everything that’s happening to us–yes, everything–is to be regarded as a lark. See? This is my last word. This. Is. Going. To. Be. A. Lark.”
It’s 1919, and Jane Quested and her cousin Lucilla are p
- Author: Nesbit, E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 20 2017
- ISBN10: 1911579452
- Language: English
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In the Land of the Long White Cloud
$14.95 Read moreHelen Davenport, governess for a wealthy London household, longs for a family of her own–but nearing her late twenties, she knows her prospects are dim. Then she spots an advertisement seeking young
- Series: In the Land of the Long White Cloud Saga #1
- Author: Lark, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 667
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 161218426X
- Language: English
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Castle to Castle
$14.95 Add to cartWith an undercurrent of sensual excitement, C馥acute;line paints an almost unbearably vivid picture of society and the human condition.
Castle to Castle is the often hilarious account of a baggage-tr
- Series: French Literature
- Author: Celine, Louis-Ferdinand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 156478150X
- Language: English
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The River Is Home
$14.95 Add to cartAward winning Florida novelist Patrick Smith’s first novel, The River Is Home revolves around a Mississippi family’s struggle to cope with changes in their rural environment. Poor in material possessi
- Author: Smith, Patrick D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: August 31 2012
- ISBN10: 1561645664
- Language: English
