Chronological Period/19th Century
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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 Moonstone
$17.99 Add to cartDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high q
- Author: Collins, Wilkie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1509850902
- Language: English
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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War
$19.99 Add to cartThey were both prewar failures–Grant, forced to resign from the Regular Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, holding four different jobs, including a much-loved position at a southern military
- Author: Flood, Charles Bracelen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0061148717
- Language: English
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A Lantern in Her Hand
$8.99 Read moreThe classic story of Abbie and Will Deal–pioneers who left everything behind for a new life on America’s frontier.
Abbie Mackenzie dreamed of becoming a fine lady like her aristocratic grandmother,- Series: Puffin Classics
- Author: Aldrich, Bess Streeter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140384286
- 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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Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
$5.95 Add to cartThomas B. Allen’s follow-up to the multi-award-winning George Washington, Spymaster is now available in paperback. This compelling biography tells the amazing tale of Harriet Tubman using details unco… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Thomas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1426304013
- Language: English
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The Bonanza King: John MacKay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West
$21.00 Add to cart“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of… [more below]
- Author: Crouch, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1501108204
- Language: English
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Helen’s Big World: The Life of Helen Keller
$9.99 Add to cartA heartwarming portrait of an unforgettable woman by the critically acclaimed author of Abe’s Honest Words and Martin’s Big Words.
This picture book biography is an excellent and accessible introduct- Series: Big Words #6
- Author: Rappaport, Doreen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 148474960X
- 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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Who Was Susan B. Anthony?
$6.99 Add to cartSusan B. Anthony may be an international icon but her campaign for women’s rights had personal roots. Working as a school teacher in New York, Anthony refused to settle for less pay than her male coll… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Pollack, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 30 2014
- ISBN10: 044847963X
- Language: English
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Sense and Sensibility
$6.95 Add to cartIn 1811, Jane Austen’s first published work, Sense and Sensibility, marked the debut of England’s premier novelist of manners. Believing that “3 or 4 families in a country village is the very thing t… [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0553213342
- Language: English
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The Yard
$17.00 Add to cartAs Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror in London comes to an end, a new era of depravity sets the stage for the first gripping mystery featuring the detectives of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad.
“If Charl- Series: Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad #1
- Author: Grecian, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0425261271
- Language: English
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Wagon Wheels
$5.99 Add to cartBased on a true story, Wagon Wheels tells a powerful and overlooked story of the country’s post-Civil War era.
Formerly enslaved Ed Muldie and his family travel to Kansas in 1878 to claim land under th
- Series: I Can Read History Book
- Author: Brenner, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 23 1984
- ISBN10: 0064440524
- Language: English
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The Lady Gets Lucky
$8.99 Add to cartUSA Today Bestselling Author
Following the book called “an alluring blend of love and playfulness” (PW) The Heiress Hunt, beloved author Joanna Shupe continues her new Fifth Avenue Rebels series with a
- Series: The Fifth Avenue Rebels #2
- Author: Shupe, Joanna
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0063045052
- Language: English
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The Blue Fox
$17.00 Add to cartNamed one The 50 Best Fantasy Books of All Time by Esquire
Winner of the 2005 Nordic Council Literature Prize–the Nordic world’s highest literary honor– Sj?’s
The Blue Fox is part mystery, part fai- Author: Sjón
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0374114455
- Language: English
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Lady of Fortune
$8.99 Add to cartReissued and repackaged for the very first time since 1988, Lady of Fortune is a classic story of one woman’s perseverance and strength in the face of insurmountable odds in the wake of the French Rev… [more below]
- Author: Putney, Mary Jo
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1420155059
- Language: English
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Caddie Woodlawn
$8.99 Add to cartCaddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She’d rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother’s dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the … [more below]
- Author: Brink, Carol Ryrie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0689815212
- Language: English
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The War of the Worlds
$10.00 Read moreOne of the most famous science-fiction stories ever written, The War of the Worlds helped launch the entire genre by exploiting the concept of interplanetary travel.
First published in 1898, the novel… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 145
- Publish Date: January 10 1997
- ISBN10: 0486295060
- Language: English
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Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
$20.00 Add to cart*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Po… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1501188534
- Language: English
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Courage to Run: A Story Based on the Life of Young Harriet Tubman
$9.99 Add to cartDaughters of the Faith: Ordinary Girls Who Lived Extraordinary Lives.
Harriet Tubman was born a slave on a Maryland plantation in the 1800’s. She trusts in God, but her faith is tested at every turn. S
- Series: Daughters of the Faith
- Author: Lawton, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0802440983
- Language: English
