Cultural Region/British
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Failure to Appear: A J.P. Beaumont Novel
$9.99 Add to cartA shattering tale of tragedy and terror featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont.
A desperate father’s search for his runaway daughter has led him to the last place he ever expected to find her: backs
- Series: J. P. Beaumont Novel #11
- Author: Jance, J. A.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 27 2011
- ISBN10: 62086391
- Language: English
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Bed-Knob and Broomstick
$10.99 Read moreThe Magic Bed-Knob and Bonfires and Broomsticks in one volume. These are the exploits of the three Wilson children; Miss Price, the apprentice witch; and the flying bed. A tale of a witch-in-training
- Author: Norton, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0152024565
- Language: English
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Scotland: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartScotland’s past is too often seen through a film of myths and misconceptions. In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores the key themes from more than 1,000 years of Scotland’s very real an… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Houston, Rab
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019923079X
- Language: English
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Castle Rackrent
$13.95 Add to cartWith her satire on Anglo-Irish landlords in Castle Rackrent (1800), Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley (1814). Politically risky, stylistically innov… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Edgeworth, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537550
- Language: English
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Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
$37.99 Add to cartHistory on a grand scale–an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world’s most vibrant civilizations
A People’s Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did “more to help us understand t- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0312421958
- Language: English
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Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats
$19.00 Read more‘I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death, ‘ John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic geni… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Keats, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756698
- Language: English
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Favorite Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories
$9.99 Read moreThroughout the annals of literature there is one detective who reigns supreme — Mr. Sherlock Holmes of 221B Baker Street, London. From that celebrated address, Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson set ou… [more below]
- Series: Dover Children’s Evergreen Classics
- Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0486412423
- Language: English
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Mansfield Park: Introduction by Peter Conrad
$32.00 Read moreAt the center of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park is Fanny Price, the classic “poor cousin” who has been brought to live with the rich Sir Thomas Bertram and his wife as an act of charity. Over time, Fann
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: June 02 1992
- ISBN10: 0679412697
- Language: English
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The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites
$0.00 Read moreThough always controversial in art circles, the Pre-Raphaelites have also always been extremely popular with museum goers. This accessible new study provides the most comprehensive view of the movemen
- Author: Prettejohn, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0691070571
- Language: English
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The Clue in the Papyrus Scroll
$7.99 Read moreIn this all-new very special mini-series, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations–all around the world! The Aldens arrive… [more below]
- Series: Boxcar Children Great Adventure #2
- Author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0807506990
- Language: English
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Poem in Your Pocket: 200 Poems to Read and Carry
$14.95 Read moreHelps to select a poem you love, then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends. Whether you’re a fan of Sylvia Plath or Emily Dickinson, Frank O’Hara or Walt Whitman, this title… [more below]
- Author: Academy of American Poets
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0810906368
- Language: English
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Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition
$24.00 Read moreThis biblically annotated edition of ‘Paradise Lost’ demonstrates that Milton was mining a wide variety of translations. Stallard contends that a full understanding of the Bible as the poem’s primary … [more below]
- Author: Milton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 506
- Publish Date: September 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0881462683
- Language: English
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Macbeth (Collector’s Edition)
$15.99 Read moreShakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoni
- Series: Wordsworth Collector’s Editions
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1840228407
- Language: English
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Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
$21.00 Read more“An extraordinary book . . . Peter Ackroyd is arguably the most talented and prolific writer working in Britain today.” —Daily Express (UK)
In Foundation, acclaimed historian Peter Ackroyd tells the- Series: History of England #1
- Author: Ackroyd, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037557
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A Curious and Enduring Relationship
$29.95 Read moreTells the remarkable story of Charles Dickens’ relationship with his sister-in-law, his ‘best and truest friend’ Georgina Hogarth, who came to live with the Dickenses aged fifteen, and continued to li… [more below]
- Author: Skelton, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1526166089
- Language: English
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. – With a new Afterword – “Desert Queen…plucks Gertrude … [more below]
- Author: Wallach, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400096197
- Language: English
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In His Own Write and a Spaniard in the Works
$22.00 Add to cartAn omnibus edition of two works of John Lennon’s “fascinating…whimsy” (The Sunday Times, London) poetry, prose, and drawings that will “jolt you] into gusts of laughter” (The Guardian).
A humorous- Author: Lennon, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1451611013
- Language: English
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Death of a Policeman
$9.99 Add to cartTravel to the Scotland Highlands with this classic Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery from the author of the Agatha Raisin series.
Death of a Policeman: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery Local police stations all ove- Series: Hamish Macbeth Mystery #29
- Author: Beaton, M. C.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1455504742
- Language: English
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Millie Bobby Brown
$8.99 Read moreMillie Bobby Brown rose to fame playing the character Eleven on the Netflix TV show Stranger Things. Now she’s using her fame to try to make the world a better place. Learn more about Millie’s acting … [more below]
- Series: Influential People
- Author: London, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496665880
- Language: English
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The Age of Nightmare: The Gothic and British Culture, 1750-1900
$24.00 Read moreHistorian Jeremy Black is comprehensive, as ever, but in his treatment of the British Gothic novel his greatest service is the preservation of the detail–namely, the human impetus behind art that is … [more below]
- Series: The Weight of Words
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1587310090
- Language: English
