Chronological Period/19th Century
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The Battle of Magersfontein: Victory and Defeat on the South African Veld, 10-12 December 1899
$49.95 Read moreMagersfontein is an iconic battle, fought during the South African War of 1899-1902, also known as the Second Anglo-Boer War.
Over 30 years of research informs this book, the first source referenced hi… [more below]
- Series: From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914
- Author: Benneyworth, Garth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1915113792
- Language: English
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Wicked Cleveland
$21.99 Read moreAward-winning true crime author Jane Turzillo brings together the strippers, gangsters, robbers, shady politicians, and more from Cleveland’s rough and rowdy past.
From world-class museums and popular
- Series: Wicked
- Author: Turzillo, Jane Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 27 2022
- ISBN10: 146715024X
- Language: English
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A Daring Arrangement: The Four Hundred Series
$9.99 Add to cartSet in New York City’s Gilded Age, Joanna Shupe’s first book in her Four Hundred series features an English beauty with a wicked scheme to win the man she loves–and the American scoundrel who ruins h
- Author: Shupe, Joanna
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0062678892
- Language: English
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Looking at Lincoln
$9.99 Add to cartFans of Who Was? and Jean Fritz will love this introduction to our sixteenth President by beloved author and illustrator Maira Kalman.
Who was Lincoln really? This little girl wants to find out. She- Author: Kalman, Maira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0147517982
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself
$7.95 Read moreThe powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American autobiography, in an authoritative edition
“This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available today- Series: Yale Nota Bene
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0300087012
- Language: English
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Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
$19.00 Read moreIn this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking w… [more below]
- Author: Stiles, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0375705589
- Language: English
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Persuasion
$7.00 Add to cartJane Austen’s last completed novel, a brilliantly insightful story of regret, second chances, and the courage to follow our hearts
Anne Elliot is twenty-seven and unmarried–by all accounts a spinster- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757295
- Language: English
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One Came Home
$8.99 Add to cartA Newbery Honor Book
“An adventure, a mystery, and a love song to the natural world. . . . Run out and re
An ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book
Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Novel- Author: Timberlake, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0375873457
- Language: English
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The Toledo War: The First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry
$24.95 Read more“An engaging account of the Toledo War of 1835, a serious confrontation whose outcome established the borders of the state of Michigan. Faber expertly narrates the history of a dispute conducted by fa
- Author: Faber, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0472050540
- Language: English
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Train to Somewhere
$9.99 Read moreMarianne, heading west with fourteen other children on an Orphan Train, is sure her mother will show up at one of the stations along the way. When her mother left Marianne at the orphanage, hadn’t she
- Author: Bunting, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0618040315
- Language: English
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Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
$19.99 Add to cartA 2005 Sibert Honor Book
The story of Sequoyah is the tale of an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea–to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians and turn his people into a nation of rea- Author: Rumford, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0618369473
- Language: English
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Les Miserables
$6.99 Read moreThe classic novel–and hit Broadway show–about escaped convict Jean Valjean has been adapted with easy-to-read text, large type, and short chapters.This engaging adaptation of the timeless tale is id… [more below]
- Series: Stepping Stone Book(tm)
- Author: Hugo, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 14 1995
- ISBN10: 067986668X
- Language: English
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A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln
$8.99 Read moreOur sixteenth president, whom some say was our greatest, was born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky. As a boy he helped his father clear land and even built a boat that he floated to New Orleans. As… [more below]
- Series: Picture Book Biographies
- Author: Adler, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0823408019
- Language: English
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The Looking Glass and Other Stories: New Translation of This Unique Edition of Thirty-Four Other Short Stories by Chekhov, Some of Them Never Translat
$12.00 Read moreIt is New Year’s Eve, and Nellie, the pretty daughter of a landowning general, is sitting in her room looking in the mirror. Although she is tired and her eyes are half closed, she is spellbound as th
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1847499015
- Language: English
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Magician and Fool: Book One, Arcana Oracle Series
$17.95 Add to cartPamela Colman Smith, newly arrived from New York to her birthplace of London, is received as an oddball in Victorian society. Her second sight helps her in her new job: illustrating tarot cards for th… [more below]
- Series: Arcana Oracle #1
- Author: Wands, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1684631866
- Language: English
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Sutter’s Mill and the California Gold Rush: Separating Fact from Fiction
$8.99 Read moreIn 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. Word quickly spread, and the California Gold Rush was on! Thousands of people went to California in hopes of finding gold and strik… [more below]
- Series: Fact vs. Fiction in U.S. History
- Author: Kim, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1666339660
- Language: English
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Abe’s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
$8.99 Read moreTold in Doreen Rappaport’s accessible, absorbing prose, and brought to life in powerful illustrations by Kadir Nelson, Abe’s Honest Words is an epic portrait of a truly great American president.
From- Series: Big Words #3
- Author: Rappaport, Doreen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1484749588
- Language: English
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A Culinary History of Mobile
$24.99 Read moreJoin author Christopher Andrews on a delectable romp through the long food history of Mobile, Alabama .
From its founding in 1702 by the French, Mobile has had a lot on its plate. Indeed, the story
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Andrews, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1467149055
- Language: English
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Lost Mackinac Island
$23.99 Read moreWhether prehistoric and glacially slow or swift and modern, countless changes to Mackinac Island have driven much of its history out of sight and memory. Eons ago, waves washed away soft rock to leave… [more below]
- Series: Lost
- Author: Pucci, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1467149187
- Language: English
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Frontier Fake News: Nevada’s Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters
$21.95 Read moreWhen readers see the names Mark Twain and Dan De Quille, fake news may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But these legendary journalists were some of the original, and most prolific, fake ne
- Author: Moreno, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1647790867
- Language: English
