Cultural Region/British
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
$25.00 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year: The Economist, Slate, Kirkus Reviews
In 1839, nearly 20,000 British troops poured through the mountain passes into Afghanistan and installed the exiled Shah Shuja on the thron- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0307948536
- Language: English
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Death of a Dentist
$9.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the Agatha Raisin television series…DEATH OF A DENTIST: A Hamish Macbeth MysteryA blinding toothache sends Hamish Macbeth 120 miles out of Lochdubh to the dentist Frederick Gilchr… [more below]
- Series: Hamish Macbeth Mysteries #13
- Author: Beaton, M. C.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0446606014
- Language: English
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What Child Is This?: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Adventure
$18.99 Read moreIt’s the season of peace and goodwill, but a Victorian Christmas is no holiday for the world’s most popular detective in this new book from Bonnie MacBird, author of the bestselling Sherlock Holmes n
- Series: Sherlock Holmes Adventure #5
- Author: Macbird, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0008521344
- Language: English
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Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
$16.95 Add to cart“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” –Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground
“Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing shor- Author: Jackson, Jeffrey H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1643752057
- Language: English
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Wuthering Heights
$10.00 Add to cartConsidered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Bront , was asked to pay some of the publicatio
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Bront?, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 24 1996
- ISBN10: 0486292568
- Language: English
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Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In this riveting mystery from Susan Elia MacNeal, England’s most daring spy, Maggie Hope, travels across the pond to America, where a looming scandal poses a grave threat t
- Series: Maggie Hope #5
- Author: MacNeal, Susan Elia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0804178704
- Language: English
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Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery
$14.99 Read moreThe New York Times Best Seller
“[Hope Never Dies is] an escapist fantasy that will likely appeal to liberals pining for the previous administration, longing for the Obama-Biden team to emerge from poli… [more below]- Series: Obama Biden Mysteries #1
- Author: Shaffer, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1683690397
- Language: English
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The Highlander Takes a Bride: Highland Brides
$9.99 Add to cartA bold, seductive laird meets his passionate match in a scintillating Highland romance from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands
Sword fighting, swearing, and riding astride come naturally to
- Series: Highland Brides #3
- Author: Sands, Lynsay
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0062273590
- Language: English
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The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens
$15.99 Add to cartMillions of readers have been captivated by C. S. Lewis’s famed Chronicles of Narnia, but why? What is it about these seven books that makes them so appealing? For more than half a century, scholars h… [more below]
- Author: Ward, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1414339658
- Language: English
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My Last Duchess
$9.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Eloisa James returns to the Wildes series with a prequel about the Wilde children’s parents, Hugo, Duke of Lindow, and Ophelia, Lady Astley.
Every Duke needs a Duchess
- Series: Wildes of Lindow Castle #6
- Author: James, Eloisa
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0063036347
- Language: English
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An English Murder
$14.95 Add to cartA country house murder mystery classic, as a party find themselves snowed-in on Christmas Eve with a murderer among them…
The snow is thick, the phone line is down, and no one is getting in or out o- Author: Hare, Cyril
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0571339018
- Language: English
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The Wedding
$10.99 Add to cartReturning to the enchanting world of her classic The Bride, the New York Times bestselling author brings the soaring adventure, love, and rivalry of medieval Scotland to glorious life in a delightful … [more below]
- Author: Garwood, Julie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0671871005
- Language: English
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
$15.99 Read moreBy the time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had completed the twelve stories for The Strand Magazine that are gathered together in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, he was already growing tired of his most fa
- Series: Wordsworth Collector’s Editions
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1840228059
- Language: English
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The Shadowy Horses
$22.99 Read more“I’ve loved every one of Susanna’s books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly’s delicate touch with characters–sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won’t let go!”–DIANA GABA
- Author: Kearsley, Susanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1402258704
- Language: English
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The Ice Monster
$7.99 Add to cart- Author: Walliams, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 28 2021
- ISBN10: 006256112X
- Language: English
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The Merchant and the Rogue
$15.99 Read moreLondon, 1865
Vera Sorokina loves reading the Penny Dreadfuls and immersing herself in tales of adventure, mystery, and romance. Her own days are filled with the often mundane work of running the book
- Series: Proper Romance Victorian
- Author: Eden, Sarah M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1629728519
- Language: English
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Black Beauty: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$18.00 Read moreAnna Sewell’s moving story is one of the best-loved animal adventures ever written, this Penguin Threads edition of Black Beauty includes a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, cover art… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Sewell, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0143106473
- Language: English
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In Front of Your Nose: 1946-1950
$19.95 Read moreEssays, journalism and essays by the brilliant, indispensable George Orwell from 1945 to 1950. Even many decades after his death, the more we read of Orwell, the more clearly we can think about our wo
- Series: Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters George Orwell
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 555
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 1567921361
- Language: English
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides res… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Johnson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198798741
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
$14.95 Add to cartWilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered th… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Owen, Wilfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 17 1965
- ISBN10: 0811201325
- Language: English
