Chronological Period/19th Century
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The Portable Frederick Douglass
$25.00 Add to cartA new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader
This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick D… [more below]- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0143106813
- Language: English
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A Victorian Flower Dictionary: The Language of Flowers Companion
$25.00 Read more“A flower is not a flower alone; a thousand thoughts invest it.”
Daffodils signal new beginnings, daisies innocence. Lilacs mean the first emotions of love, periwinkles tender recollection. Early Vict- Author: Kirkby, Mandy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0345532864
- Language: English
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
$12.00 Add to cartA tremendously influential philosophical work of the late nineteenth century, Thus Spake Zarathustra is also a literary masterpiece by one of the most important thinkers of modern times. In it, the an… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 1999
- ISBN10: 0486406636
- Language: English
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Wesley and Men Who Followed
$27.00 Read moreJohn Wesley – Oxford don and itinerant preacher, intellectual and evangelist, author and man of action, upholder of the Church of England yet founder of another world-wide denomination, disagreeing wi… [more below]
- Author: Murray, Iain H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: December 15 2005
- ISBN10: 0851518354
- Language: English
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Murder at Beacon Rock
$16.95 Read moreThe New York Yacht Club’s exclusive gathering at Newport, Rhode Island’s Beacon Rock mansion hits stormy seas in the summer of 1900 when reporter Emma Cross, a lesser Vanderbilt, discovers a drowned c… [more below]
- Series: Gilded Newport Mystery
- Author: Maxwell, Alyssa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1496749928
- Language: English
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A Vote for Susanna: The First Woman Mayor
$16.99 Read moreGreat Reads from Great Places 2022: Kansas
When Susannah Salter stood up for her right to vote, she became mayor of her town. In 1887, the state of Kansas gave women the right
2022 Kansas Notable Book- Series: She Made History
- Author: Greenwald, Karen M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0807553131
- Language: English
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The Prince of Steel Pier
$9.99 Read moreWinner of the National Jewish Book Award
A Sydney Taylor Notable Book
Tablet Magazine’s Best Jewish Kids Books of the Year
A young teen falls in with the mob, and learns a lesson about what
- Author: Nockowitz, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1728430348
- Language: English
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Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806-1843
$25.00 Read moreOne of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin.
What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What- Series: Italian List
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091150
- Language: English
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Lady Meets Earl: A Love on Holiday Novel
$9.99 Add to cartUSA Today bestselling author Christy Carlyle sweeps readers away on an all-new romantic holiday to the wilds of Scotland where a young woman discovers her vacation home is unexpectedly owned by a stra
- Series: Love on Holiday #2
- Author: Carlyle, Christy
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 63054507
- Language: English
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Grandfather’s Dance
$6.99 Read moreThe fifth book in the series that began with the Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan.
Jack leans back on Grandfather’s shoulder. Aunt Mattie’s knitting needles click in t
- Series: Sarah, Plain and Tall #5
- Author: MacLachlan, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0061340030
- Language: English
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The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book VI: The Long-Lost Home
$9.99 Add to cartFor fans of Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events and Trenton Lee Stewart’s Mysterious Benedict Society, here comes the final book in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, the acclaimed a
- Series: Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #6
- Author: Wood, Maryrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0062110454
- Language: English
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National Geographic the Old West
$49.99 Add to cartThis definitive history of the American West is full of legendary tales of tragedy and triumph, from Lewis and Clark’s epic 1803 expedition to the showmanship of Buffalo Bill. Lavishly illustrated wit… [more below]
- Author: Hyslop, Stephen G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 142621555X
- Language: English
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The Bachelor and the Bride
$15.99 Read more- Series: Proper Romance Victorian
- Author: Eden, Sarah M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639930485
- Language: English
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A Boston Harbor Islands Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal of 1891
$23.99 Read moreIn 1891, four intrepid women from Lowell sailed to a remote island in Boston Harbor for a 17-day escape from New England’s prim and proper society. Calling themselves the Scribe, the Aristocrat, the A… [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Schorow, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151688
- Language: English
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When the White Pine Was King: A History of Lumberjacks, Log Drives, and Sawdust Cities in Wisconsin
$22.95 Add to cart“From the ring of the ax in the woods, to the scream of the saw blade in the mill, to the founding of many of Wisconsin’s communities, Jerry Apps does an outstanding job bringing Wisconsin’s logging a… [more below]
- Author: Apps, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0870209345
- Language: English
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Dragon’s Gate: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartIn 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California — the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join his father and uncle.
In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a str
- Series: Golden Mountain Chronicles
- Author: Yep, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 23 2001
- ISBN10: 0064404897
- Language: English
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Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
$22.00 Add to cartSon of the Morning Star is the nonfiction account of General Custer from the great American novelist Evan S. Connell.
Custer’s Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history–more- Author: Connell, Evan S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 30 1997
- ISBN10: 0865475105
- Language: English
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The Beauties: Essential Stories
$16.95 Read moreA beautiful collection of 13 classic Russian short stories by “the greatest short story writer who has ever lived” (Raymond Chandler)
Without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all … [more below]- Series: Pushkin Press Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1805330306
- Language: English
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Foodtopia: Communities in Pursuit of Peace, Love, & Homegrown Food
$28.95 Read more“Insightful…empathetic…a thoughtful consideration of a topic that will have a substantial impact on our future.”–Booklist
Readable Feast, Book Award Winner for Socially Conscious Writing * Civil- Author: Kelley, Margot Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1567927300
- Language: English
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An English Bride in Scotland: Highland Brides
$9.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author of The Husband Hunt, The Heiress, and other beloved historical romances, comes Lynsay Sands’s An English Bride in Scotland, the first book in a new series set i
- Series: Highland Brides #1
- Author: Sands, Lynsay
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 0061963119
- Language: English
