Chronological Period/19th Century
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The Witch of Mansfield: The Tetched Life of Phebe Wise
$24.99 Read moreMeet one of Richland County’s most colorful citizens.
There are those who thought Phebe Wise was a witch. More thought that the cranky old lady was “tetched,” meaning crazy. And she was crazy–like
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Jordan, Mark S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155217
- Language: English
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Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives
$30.00 Read moreThe never-before-told story of the extraordinary women behind a trailblazing British magazine.
During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accom- Author: Adams, Jad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147891
- Language: English
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River Master: John Wesley Powell’s Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon
$16.95 Read moreIn 1869, Civil War veteran and amputee Major John Powell led an expedition down the uncharted Colorado River through the then-nameless Grand Canyon. This is the story of what started as a geological s… [more below]
- Author: Kuhne, Cecil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1682685187
- Language: English
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Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
$32.00 Read moreThe half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling w
- Author: Masur, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1324005939
- Language: English
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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
$26.00 Add to cartBy the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies o… [more below]
- Author: Green, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 650
- Publish Date: March 05 2021
- ISBN10: 022678973X
- Language: English
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American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
$20.00 Read moreIn this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The new
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021802
- Language: English
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The Chase
$9.99 Read moreIn this charming historical romance classic from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands, a Highlands hellion flees the handsome “English devil” she’s been promised to, and he realizes that his
- Author: Sands, Lynsay
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0062019694
- Language: English
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Mansfield Park
$13.00 Add to cartMansfield Park is the complex and controversial novel starring Fanny Price, the heroine through which the world-renowned author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility views the social mores … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0307386880
- Language: English
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
$10.00 Add to cartA haunting study of guilt and lost love
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he mana- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0141439785
- Language: English
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Ten Days in a Mad-House: A Story of the Intrepid Reporter
$7.95 Read moreAt the age of 23, pioneering reporter Nellie Bly faked dementia in order to expose abuses of patients in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum in New York City. Such investigative journalism was unusual in… [more below]
- Author: Bly, Nellie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0486835448
- Language: English
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Strawberry Girl: A Newbery Award Winner
$19.99 Add to cartRediscover this Newbery Medal-winning classic, a favorite of generations.
Strawberries–big, ripe, and juicy. Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking them. But her family has just m
- Author: Lenski, Lois
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 01 1945
- ISBN10: 039730109X
- Language: English
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The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
$19.00 Add to cartIn this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm’s other
volumes, th… [more below]- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0679772545
- Language: English
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Trail of Tears
$11.95 Read moreThe forced removal of the Cherokee from their land changed not only the lives of the Native people, but also, the course of American history. This gripping title examines the events leading up to the … [more below]
- Series: Crabtree Chrome
- Author: Peppas, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0778711870
- Language: English
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Fighting for Freedom Along the Underground Railroad: A History Seeking Adventure
$34.65 Read moreYOU are fighting for freedom from enslavement for yourself and others during the mid-1800s. Will you escape to freedom? And will you help others escape as part of the Underground Railroad’s network of… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Seeking History
- Author: Pryor, Shawn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669032531
- Language: English
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Love Comes Softly
$17.99 Add to cartLove Comes Softly introduced the characters of Marty and Clark Davis, whose tragic circumstances brought them to a “marriage of convenience” on the frontier prairies during the mid 1800s. The story of… [more below]
- Series: Love Comes Softly #1
- Author: Oke, Janette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0764228323
- Language: English
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Perfect Temptations: 2-In-1 (Seduce Me at Sunrise, Tempt Me at Twilight)
$9.99 Read moreTwo of Lisa Kleypas’s beloved Hathaways novels, now collected in one volume, Perfect Temptations.
In Seduce Me at Sunrise Kev Merripen has longed for the beautiful, well-bred Winnifred Hathaway ever s- Series: Hathaways #6
- Author: Kleypas, Lisa
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1250832829
- Language: English
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My Fake Rake: The Union of the Rakes
$8.99 Read more“[A] feast of female empowerment, positive friendships, feel-good moments, and social satire.” — NPR
“A jolt of electricity, a blast of fresh air–everything delightful and exciting you could want it
- Series: Union of the Rakes #1
- Author: Leigh, Eva
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0062932403
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Laura & Jack: Reillustrated Edition
$6.99 Add to cartJoin the original pioneer girl in this Little House chapter book, adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved classics. Illustrated with beautiful new black-and-white artwork, this repackaged edition
- Series: Little House Chapter Book #1
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0062377094
- Language: English
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Devil of the Highlands
$9.99 Read moreThey call him the Devil . . .
He is the most notorious laird of Scotland: fierce, cold, deadly . . . and maybe even worse. Yet Evelinde has just agreed to wed him. Anything, she thinks, is better than
- Series: Historical Highlands #1
- Author: Sands, Lynsay
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 27 2009
- ISBN10: 006134477X
- Language: English
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47
$11.99 Read moreMaster storyteller Walter Mosley deftly mixes speculative and historical fiction in this daring New York Times bestselling novel, reminiscent of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.
47 is a y- Author: Mosley, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0316016357
- Language: English
