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Dulcinea
$27.99 Read moreA feminist Shakespeare in Love reimagining of Cervantes, Dulcinea tells the story of Dol軋, the fictional muse behind Don Quixote–a must-read for fans of Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks and The
- Author: Veciana-Suarez, Ana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9.7982E+12
- Language: English
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A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
$19.95 Add to cartThe story of one of the most important–and incendiary–books in Western history
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever- Author: Nadler, Stefen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 24 2013
- ISBN10: 069116018X
- Language: English
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What Great Paintings Say. 100 Masterpieces in Detail
$80.00 Add to cartThis important addition to our understanding of art history’s masterworks puts some of the world’s most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and al
- Author: Hagen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 642
- Publish Date: May 25 2020
- ISBN10: 3836577496
- Language: English
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The Queen’s Lies
$28.99 Add to cartThe latest in the thrilling and “lively” (The New York Times) Agents of the Crown series follows John Dee and his wife working together in an act of espionage that may turn out to be treason.
While wo- Series: An Agents of the Crown Novel #4
- Author: Clements, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 198219748X
- Language: English
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Michelangelo
$9.99 Read moreWith her thoroughly researched, lively narrative and superbly detailed illustrations, Diane Stanley has captured the life of the artist Michelangelo, who towered above the late Renaissance–and whose
- Author: Stanley, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0060521139
- Language: English
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Young Queens: The Intertwined Lives of Catherine De’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots
$26.00 Add to cartFinalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography)
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One of the New Yorker‘s Best Books of 2023
One of BookRiot‘s Best Biographies of 2023
Longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize in Nonfiction- Author: Chang, Leah Redmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338409
- Language: English
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Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image
$38.00 Read moreEuropean narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet between 1500
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Heuer, Christopher P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1942130147
- Language: English
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That Self-Same Metal (the Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 1)
$12.99 Read moreThis stunning YA fantasy debut “seamlessly weaves together history, fantasy, culture, magic, and love” (New York Times bestselling author Daniel Jos? Older) and is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, H… [more below]
- Series: The Forge & Fracture Saga #1
- Author: Williams, Brittany N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1419758659
- Language: English
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This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair (“A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing” —The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced Eu… [more below]
- Author: Di Robilant, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0307597075
- Language: English
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The Stone Witch of Florence
$30.00 Add to cartThe premium special edition hardcover will feature an exquisite gold foil jacket, stunning four-color endpapers designed for personal inscription, and beautiful blue sprayed edges.
“A feast of a novel,… [more below]
- Author: Rasche, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0778310450
- Language: English
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A Rose by Any Other Name
$19.99 Add to cart★ “A fascinating fictional expos? [with] a touch of mysticism and an LGBTQ twist.”–Booklist (starred review)
★ “A delightfully impish heroine… a tempestuous erotic connection… a capt… [more below]- Author: McMyne, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0316393517
- Language: English
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Apprentice Academy: Knights: The Unofficial Guide to the Heroic Arts
$21.99 Read moreCongratulations on your acceptance to the Apprentice Academy, one of the world’s finest institutions for knightly education. Your course of study here will prepare you for a career as a knight, samura
- Series: Apprentice Academy
- Author: Johnson, Hal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1250808340
- Language: English
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Macbeth: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$8.99 Read more‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?’
Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most theatricall- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0192862421
- Language: English
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Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350
$50.00 Add to cartAn exploration of a crucial turning point in Italian art, the early 1300s in the city of Siena
In the early 1300s, the city of Siena gave rise to an extraordinary period of creativity and innovation.- Author: Cannon, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1857097165
- Language: English
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Catherine De’ Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
$35.00 Add to cartThe life and times of Catherine de’ Medici–the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe–as seen through her often controversial role in religion and the arts.
During an age of heightened reli- Author: Hollingsworth, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367012
- Language: English
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Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
$28.99 Add to cartA devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and beyond …
From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain–the exchange of- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1685891047
- Language: English
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Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen
$20.00 Add to cartBestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done before: creating a dramatic six-book series in which each novel covers one of King Henry VIII’s wives. I… [more below]
- Series: Six Tudor Queens
- Author: Weir, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1101966505
- Language: English
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Financial Vipers of Venice: Alchemical Money, Magical Physics, and Banking in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
$19.95 Read moreIn this sequel to Joseph P. Farrell’s Babylon’s Banksters, the banksters have moved from Mesopotamia via Rome to Venice. There, they have manipulated popes and bullion prices, clipped coins, sacked Co
- Author: Farrell, Joseph P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 269
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1936239736
- Language: English
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Pathways: Grade 5 Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England Trade Book
$19.99 Add to cartIn this welcome reissue, celebrated author and illustrator Diane Stanley and her husband, Peter Vennema, paint an impressive portrait of the remarkable queen who loved her people so dearly and ruled t
- Author: Stanley, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0688179614
- Language: English
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I Heard: An American Journey
$17.99 Add to cartA powerful and poetic picture book about Black history in the United States, from the shores of Africa and slavery, to the civil rights and Black Lives Matter movements.
With stunning lyricism reminis- Author: Avery, Jaha Nailah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1623543827
- Language: English
