Chronological Period/16th Century
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Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown
$35.00 Add to cartThe first definitive biography of the young Elizabeth I in over twenty years–drawing on a rich variety of primary sources–tracing her tumultuous path to the crown.
Queen Elizabeth I is renowned for- Author: Tallis, Nicola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365842
- Language: English
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
$18.99 Add to cartA young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352609
- Language: English
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The Queen’s Fool
$19.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory weaves a spellbinding tale of a young woman with the ability to see the future in an era when destiny was… [more below]
- Series: Plantagenet and Tudor Novels
- Author: Gregory, Philippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 04 2004
- ISBN10: 0743246071
- Language: English
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Demonology: Of King James I
$7.50 Add to cartThe Demonology of King James I forms one of the most intriguing and well made texts of the burning times. Crafted at the end of the 16th century, it details the nature of sorcery, witches, Satan, fair
- Author: Warwick, Tarl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: August 11, 2016
- ISBN10: 1537015796
- Language: English
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Shadow of Night
$19.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling second installment in the All Souls series, from the author of The Discovery of Witches and The Black Bird Oracle.
Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” n- Series: All Souls
- Author: Harkness, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 28, 2013
- ISBN10: 0143123629
- Language: English
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Don Quixote
$24.99 Add to cartEdith Grossman’s definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, in an expanded P.S. edition and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
“A major literary achievement.”–Carlos Fuentes, New Yor
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Cervantes, Miguel De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: April 26, 2005
- ISBN10: 0060934344
- Language: English
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Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
$28.00 Read moreA lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages t- Author: Eire, Carlos M. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 920
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0300240031
- Language: English
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Don’t Lose Your Head: Life Lessons from the Six Ex-Wives of Henry VIII
$16.95 Read moreSurvive alongside Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, and the rest of King Henry VIII’s ill-fated wives with this witty book of essential life advice, history, and trivia–the perfect handbook for fans … [more below]
- Author: Marsden, Harriet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1646041291
- Language: English
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
$37.00 Add to cartA extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade
Winner of the Association of American Publishers’ 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award a- Series: The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- Author: Eltis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0300212542
- Language: English
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King of Shadows
$7.99 Add to cartOnly in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to Lo… [more below]
- Series: Aladdin Fantasy
- Author: Cooper, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: June 01 2001
- ISBN10: 068984445X
- Language: English
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Poetry for Kids: William Shakespeare
$17.95 Add to cartLove! Betrayal! Ambition! Tragedy! Jealousy! William Shakespeare’s universal themes continue to resonate with readers of all ages more than 400 years after his death.
This wonderful, fully illustrat- Series: Poetry for Kids
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1633225046
- Language: English
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Bosch
$20.00 Read moreAs cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) remain some of the most enduring enigmas of the art world. Their intricate, allegorical, and often startling cont
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Taschen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836559862
- Language: English
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Beware, Princess Elizabeth
$11.99 Read moreImprisonment. Betrayal. Lost love. Murder. What more must a princess endure?
Elizabeth Tudor’s teenage and young adult years during the turbulent reigns of Edward and then Mary Tudor are hardly those- Series: Young Royals #2
- Author: Meyer, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0152045562
- Language: English
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Don’t Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems
$18.99 Add to cart“At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry
In Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603613
- Language: English
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Watchmaking
$85.00 Read moreTwenty-eight years after its first publication, the best-selling Watchmaking continues to inspire and encourage the art of watchmaking, especially among new generations of enthusiasts. As a supreme ma
- Author: Daniels, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0856677043
- Language: English
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The King’s Fifth: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$15.99 Add to cartA 1967 Newbery Honor Book
While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the obligatory fifth of the gold found in Cibola, Esteban, a seventeen-year-old cartographer, recalls his adve- Author: O’Dell, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618747834
- Language: English
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Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
$39.95 Add to cartAn Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year
“Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus.”
–Tom Holland, The Telegraph “Ambitious…seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire’s reputation by re-ex- Author: Wilson, Peter H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0674244869
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
$3.95 Add to cartPackaged in handsome and affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. From the musings of literary geniuses like Mark Twain in The Adventures of Hucklebe… [more below]
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1945186178
- Language: English
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The Wars of the Roses: The Medieval Art of Graham Turner
$50.00 Add to cartA highly illustrated history of the Wars of the Roses based on the medieval art of Graham Turner.
The period of civil strife in the second half of the 15th century now known as the Wars of the Roses w- Author: Turner, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1472847288
- Language: English
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The Heptameron
$22.00 Read moreIn the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for a bridge to be repaired, t… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Marguerite de Navarre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 05 1984
- ISBN10: 014044355X
- Language: English
