Chronological Period/19th Century
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The extraordinary account of James Garfield’s rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from the bestselling author … [more below]
- Author: Millard, Candice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 0767929713
- Language: English
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Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$21.00 Add to cartHerman Melville’s masterpiece of obsession and the untamed sea, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history–a deluxe edition featuring a Foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick and cover art… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0143105957
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$5.95 Add to cartFrederick Douglass’s dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America.
Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crim- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0451529944
- Language: English
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Exposing the Expositions 1851-1915- Revised 2021
$15.95 Add to cartExpositions Exposed 2021 is a fully revised and edited version of the 2019 original.
Have we have been lied to? During 1850-1915 Great Expositions (Fairs) were built worldwide including: Chicago 1893,
- Author: Mickoski, Howdie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 09, 2021
- ISBN10: 8269126624
- Language: English
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Running Out of Time
$9.99 Add to cartReturn to the classic middle grade time-bending thriller Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix, almost thirty years following its first publication, with this stunning repackage.
Clifton, In
- Series: Running Out of Time #1
- Author: Haddix, Margaret Peterson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0063306581
- Language: English
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
$35.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War–a simmering crisis
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 0385348746
- Language: English
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Frankenstein
$6.00 Add to cartFew creatures of horror have seized readers’ imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein’s terrible creation and th
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 21, 1994
- ISBN10: 0486282112
- Language: English
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A Christmas Carol
$5.99 Add to cartMerry Christmas, everyone
“Bah ” said Scrooge. “Humbug ” With those famous words unfolds a tale that renews the joy and caring that are Christmas. Whether we read it aloud with our family and friends- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01, 1986
- ISBN10: 0553212443
- Language: English
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On the Genealogy of Morals
$11.95 Add to cartOn the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about interpretation and the history of ethics which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both. This is the most sustained of Nietzsch… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537089
- Language: English
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
$25.00 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.–the Jekyl- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: April 27 2004
- ISBN10: 1400077303
- Language: English
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
$22.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Wonderful… [Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D’Urbervi
- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1250048532
- Language: English
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
$18.99 Add to cart*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award*
This New York Times bestseller
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 1416591060
- Language: English
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
$23.99 Add to cartThe landmark, bestselling account of the crimes against American Indians during the 19th century, now on its 50th Anniversary.
First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown’s elo- Author: Brown, Dee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0805086846
- Language: English
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
$20.00 Add to cart25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION – From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expa… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: McCarthy, Cormac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679728759
- Language: English
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The Infernal Devices (Boxed Set): Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
$74.99 Add to cartDon’t miss The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, now a major motion picture.
Step back in time with the Shadowhunters with this collectible hardcover boxed set of the New York Times bestselling Infe- Series: Infernal Devices
- Author: Clare, Cassandra
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 1520
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1442483725
- Language: English
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
$21.00 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago and the cunni… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0375725601
- Language: English
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Courage to Run: A Story Based on the Life of Young Harriet Tubman
$9.99 Add to cartDaughters of the Faith: Ordinary Girls Who Lived Extraordinary Lives.
Harriet Tubman was born a slave on a Maryland plantation in the 1800’s. She trusts in God, but her faith is tested at every turn. S
- Series: Daughters of the Faith
- Author: Lawton, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0802440983
- Language: English
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Ten Mile Day: And the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
$11.99 Add to cartOn May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America’s first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. Illustrated with the author’s carefully researched, evocative paintings,… [more below]
- Author: Fraser, Mary Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0805047034
- Language: English
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Mother of Light
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the untamed wilds of Iceland’s far north comes a deeply heartfelt tale, inspired by the author’s own midwife ancestors…
After the death of her sister to a preventable childbirth complication, S?
- Author: de Ruyter, Elin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0645765910
- Language: English
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The Duke Buys a Bride: The Rogue Files
$8.99 Add to cartA bride wasn’t in his plans . . .
The last thing Marcus, the Duke of Autenberry, expects to see after sleeping off a night’s drunken shenanigans is a woman being auctioned in the village square. Before
- Series: Rogue Files #3
- Author: Jordan, Sophie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0062463640
- Language: English
