Historical - General
-
Napoleon’s Spy
$26.99 Add to cart‘An epic tale that never loses sight of the raw experience of the hero. I loved Napoleon’s Spy’ Simon Scarrow
‘Exciting, immersive, well researched and great fun.’ Giles Kristian
‘Harrowing and totally- Author: Kane, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1409197891
- Language: English
-
The Sea Between Two Shores
$16.00 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of Above All Things and inspired by real events, this powerful novel follows two families brought together to reckon with what it means to make amends–for historic wrongs … [more below]
- Author: Rideout, Tanis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0771076401
- Language: English
-
The Struggle Continues: An arduous journey of hope
$21.99 Add to cartThrough a cast of international characters, this compelling story traces a Palestinian refugee family through a decade of violence and conflict in and around Lebanon in the 1970’s, against a backdrop … [more below]
- Author: Thomson, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: March 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1039157610
- Language: English
-
Mirrors & Smoke
$29.95 Add to cartRebecca Plummer is a Canadian herbalist and midwife with a shameful secret and feminist outlook, caught up in the War of 1812 in Niagara, Upper Canada. Rebecca struggles to keep her family and communi
- Author: Stevenson, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: August 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1778223354
- Language: English
-
All They Will Call You
$19.95 Add to cartAll They Will Call You is the harrowing account of “the worst airplane disaster in California’s history,” which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eight Mexican citizens–far
- Series: Camino del Sol
- Author: Hernandez, Tim Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0816537372
- Language: English
-
Human Voices
$18.99 Add to cart“A wonderful combination of deadpan English comedy and surreal farce.” — A. S. Byatt “A tribute to the unsung and quintessentially English heroism of imperfect people.” — New Criterion
When British- Author: Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0544484088
- Language: English
-
Before All the World
$19.00 Add to cartAn NPR Best Book of the Year
I do not believe that all the world is darkness. In the swirl
A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old.- Author: Rothman-Zecher, Moriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872162
- Language: English
-
Red Grass River: A Legend
$18.99 Add to cartJames Carlos Blake is a masterful chronicler of the restless, outcast, the lawless, and the lonelyheart. His previous novel, In the Rogue Blood, was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fictio
- Author: Blake, James Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0380792427
- Language: English
-
In the Rogue Blood
$13.50 Add to cartJames Carlos Blake’s remarkable award-winning novel offers a savage, uncompromising and unforgettable vision of the old American West that explodes the idealized myths fostered by a hundred years of p… [more below]
- Author: Blake, James Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 19 2001
- ISBN10: 0380792419
- Language: English
-
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
$21.00 Add to cartA book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert’s lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0375759123
- Language: English
-
The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel
$24.00 Add to cart“Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic. . . . She plucks the mysteries from people’s lives and works these dark narrative threads into Appalachian legends older than the
- Series: Ballad Novels #8
- Author: McCrumb, Sharyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0312573626
- Language: English
-
The Woman in the Photo
$17.99 Add to cartIn this compulsively-readable historical novel, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Two Sisters, comes the story of two young women–one in America’s Gilded Age, one in scrappy modern-day Cali
- Author: Hogan, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 006238693X
- Language: English
-
Dessa Rose
$18.99 Add to cartSherley A. Williams’ highly acclaimed historical novel details two women’s fierce strength of will and an unlikely bond despite racial barriers in the pre-civil war south.
In 1829, in Kentucky, a pregn
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Williams, Sherley A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0062011251
- Language: English
-
The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
$21.00 Add to cartMeet Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teaches him to hunt
- Author: Taylor, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 16 2009
- ISBN10: 0061922978
- Language: English
-
The Fortune Men
$17.00 Add to cartBOOKER PRIZE FINALIST – Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart … about the unjust death of an innocent Black man caught up in a corrupt system” (Walter Mosley… [more below]
- Author: Mohamed, Nadifa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593467434
- Language: English
-
Shayna
$25.27 Add to cart“From frozen ground, flowers grow…”
1919 Ukraine – In a small trunk in the corner of an abandoned shed a young woman huddles hiding from the Cossacks ravaging her shtetl, burning homes, and killing
- Author: Black, Miriam Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: January 04, 2022
- ISBN10: 1952976316
- Language: English
-
The Glassmaker’s Wife
$16.95 Add to cartIn August of 1844, a
The suspect? His
man named Leonard Reed takes violently ill at his home near Heathsville, Illinois,
and four days later he is dead. The cause? Arsenic poisoning.
wife, Betsey. The c- Author: Martin, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1950539482
- Language: English
-
Crusader
$15.99 Read moreKING. POLITICIAN. WARRIOR. CONQUEROR.
1189. Richard the Lionheart’s long-awaited goal comes true as he is crowned King of England. Setting his own kingdom in order, he prepares to embark on a gruellin- Author: Kane, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 1409197816
- Language: English
-
Shadowplay
$16.95 Read moreSet during the golden age of West End theater in a lamp-lit London shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper, Shadowplay is a gripping novel of love, celebrity, and ambition by New York Times best-selli
- Author: O’Connor, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 160945698X
- Language: English
-
Savannah
$26.99 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
New York Times bestselling author Eugenia Price captivates audiences in this acclaimed first novel of the Savannah Quartet-an intimate portrait of desire and devotion in- Series: Savannah Quartet #1
- Author: Price, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 1620455013
- Language: English
