Chronological Period/18th Century
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Frankenstein
$6.00 Add to cartFew creatures of horror have seized readers’ imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein’s terrible creation and th
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 21, 1994
- ISBN10: 0486282112
- Language: English
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Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty
- Author: Duncan, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541730348
- Language: English
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A Tale of Two Cities
$6.95 Add to cartThe French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens’s famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times…
The storming of the Bastille…the death carts with their doomed human car- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 06, 2007
- ISBN10: 0451530578
- Language: English
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Wild Seed
$18.99 Add to cartIn an “epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant” story of love and hate, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together — and changing the destiny of th… [more below]
- Series: Patternist #1
- Author: Butler, Octavia E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1538751488
- Language: English
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Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy
$15.99 Add to cartLife as a ship’s boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, J… [more below]
- Series: Bloody Jack Adventures #1
- Author: Meyer, L. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 301
- Publish Date: June 10 2010
- ISBN10: 015205085X
- Language: English
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The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History
$22.99 Add to cartLong before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation a… [more below]
- Author: Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0190625368
- Language: English
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Selected Essays
$13.95 Add to cartIn his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540306
- Language: English
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A Picture Book of Lewis and Clark
$8.99 Add to cartAn introduction to the lives of Lewis and Clark and to the exploratory expedition they led from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean in the early nineteenth century.
- Series: Picture Book Biography
- Author: Adler, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0823417956
- Language: English
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The Stockholm Octavo
$17.99 Add to cartOne man’s fortune holds the key to a nation’s fate in this sensational debut novel set in 18th-century Sweden.
The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann transports readers to a colorful Scandinavian worl
- Author: Engelmann, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0061995355
- Language: English
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The Hornet’s Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War
$20.00 Add to cartThe first work of fiction by a President of the United States–a sweeping novel of the American South and the War of Independence.
In his ambitious and deeply rewarding novel, Jimmy Carter brings to l- Author: Carter, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0743255445
- Language: English
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Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
$19.00 Add to cartA book about a tiny island with a huge history, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane’s Eye.
“For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispens… [more below]- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0143120123
- Language: English
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party
$13.99 Add to cartAnderson’s imaginative and highly intelligent exploration of . . . the ambiguous history of America’s origins will leave readers impatient for the sequel. — The New York Times Book Review
Young Octav- Series: Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation #1
- Author: Anderson, M. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0763636797
- Language: English
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Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings
$19.00 Add to cartThe bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land takes us along the Inside Passage, 1,000 miles of often treacherous water, which he navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat, offering captivating discour… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0679776141
- Language: English
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Dear Benjamin Banneker
$9.99 Add to cartThroughout his life Banneker was troubled that all blacks were not free. And so, in 1791, he wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who had signed the Declaration of Independence. Banneker atta
- Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0152018921
- Language: English
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Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
$6.99 Add to cartBorn in Austria in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his first piece of music, a minuet, when he was just five years old Soon after, he was performing for kings and emperors. Although he died at… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: McDonough, Yona Zeldis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0448431041
- Language: English
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
$38.00 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology–a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI’s … [more below]
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0679726101
- Language: English
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
$37.00 Read moreA 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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Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
$29.95 Read moreNo one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fierce naval battle would have a monumental imp
- Author: Sutton, Angela C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888444
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
$40.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham, “a big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humani… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1400067669
- Language: English
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The Blue Flower
$16.99 Add to cartA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction. Booker Prize-winning novelist Fitzgerald’s crowning literary work centers on the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis and his love f… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0544359453
- Language: English
