Chronological Period/17th Century
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Birds of Prey
$18.99 Read moreA Courtney series adventure – Book 1 in the Birds of Prey trilogy
“Africa!” The sound of that mysterious name on his own lips raised goose pimples along his arms and made the thick dark hair prickle o- Series: Courtney Series: The Birds of Prey Trilogy #1
- Author: Smith, Wilbur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 676
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1499860889
- Language: English
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
$18.99 Add to cartA young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352609
- Language: English
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The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem
$21.99 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a min- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 20, 2016
- ISBN10: 031620059X
- Language: English
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The Pilgrim’s Progress
$11.00 Add to cartA new edition of one of the greatest allegorical stories ever written. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
A masterpiece of the English Puritan tradition,- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Bunyan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 27, 2009
- ISBN10: 0141439718
- Language: English
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Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England–perfect for re
- Author: Thomson, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 031670363X
- Language: English
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Wild Seed
$18.99 Add to cartIn an “epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant” story of love and hate, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together — and changing the destiny of th… [more below]
- Series: Patternist #1
- Author: Butler, Octavia E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1538751488
- Language: English
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Demonology: Of King James I
$7.50 Add to cartThe Demonology of King James I forms one of the most intriguing and well made texts of the burning times. Crafted at the end of the 16th century, it details the nature of sorcery, witches, Satan, fair
- Author: Warwick, Tarl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: August 11, 2016
- ISBN10: 1537015796
- Language: English
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Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
$28.00 Read moreA lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages t- Author: Eire, Carlos M. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 920
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0300240031
- Language: English
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
$37.00 Add to cartA extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade
Winner of the Association of American Publishers’ 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award a- Series: The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- Author: Eltis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0300212542
- Language: English
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Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
$19.99 Read moreInspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has crafted a biography that dramatically recolors the
- Author: Sobel, Dava
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0802779654
- Language: English
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Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings
$14.95 Add to cartA masterful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature–part travelogue, part haiku collection, part account of spiritual awakening
Bashō (1644-1694)–a great luminary o- Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
- Author: Basho, Matsuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1611806895
- Language: English
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Poetry for Kids: William Shakespeare
$17.95 Add to cartLove! Betrayal! Ambition! Tragedy! Jealousy! William Shakespeare’s universal themes continue to resonate with readers of all ages more than 400 years after his death.
This wonderful, fully illustrat- Series: Poetry for Kids
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1633225046
- Language: English
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Joan Blaeu. Atlas Maior of 1665
$100.00 Add to cartSuperlatives tend to fail in describing Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior–that being said, it stands as one of the most extravagant feats in the history of mapmaking. The original Latin edition, completed in
- Author: Blaeu, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 04 2016
- ISBN10: 3836538032
- Language: English
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The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays
$8.94 Add to cartThis unique volume brings together four of Moli?e’s greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career. Actor, director, and playwright, Moli?e (1622-73) was one of the fin… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Moli?re
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540187
- Language: English
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A Library for Juana: The World of Sor Juana Inés
$11.95 Add to cartAn award-winning biography about the inspiring life of Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz.
From a very young age, Juana In?s loved words. When she was three years old, she followed her sister to school and begg
- Author: Mora, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1643790587
- Language: English
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Don’t Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems
$18.99 Add to cart“At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry
In Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603613
- Language: English
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Basilius Besler. Florilegium. the Book of Plants
$25.00 Read moreA magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, the Hortus Eystettensis is in a class of its own when it comes to the range of flowers engraved.
First
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Littger, Klaus Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 3836557878
- Language: English
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Of Plymouth Plantation
$14.95 Add to cartThe most important and influential source of information about the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, this landmark account was written between 1630 and 1647. It vividly documents the Pilgrims’ adventures:… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Bradford, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0486452603
- Language: English
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Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
$39.95 Add to cartAn Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year
“Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus.”
–Tom Holland, The Telegraph “Ambitious…seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire’s reputation by re-ex- Author: Wilson, Peter H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0674244869
- Language: English
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The Last Musketeer
$9.99 Add to cartThe first book in the thrilling time travel adventure trilogy from New York Times bestselling Charlie Thorne and Spy School author Stuart Gibbs–now with a brand-new look!
Before they were legends, the
- Author: Gibbs, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0062852159
- Language: English
