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The Journals of Captain Cook
$18.00 Read moreThe writings of a first-rate scientist and daring adventurer–the subject of New York Times bestselling historian Hampton Sides’s The Wide Wide Sea
John Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacif… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cook, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140436472
- Language: English
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Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novel
$15.99 Add to cartAlex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series!
The mission that started it all—now in a graphic novel format! The first in the # 1 New York Times bestselling Alex Rider series, Stormbreaker,- Series: Alex Rider
- Author: Horowitz, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0399246339
- Language: English
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Braddock’s Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
$21.99 Add to cartOn July 9, 1755, British regulars and American colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock, commander in chief of the British Army in North America, were attacked by French and Native… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Preston, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190658517
- Language: English
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First Among Equals
$23.99 Add to cartCharles Seymour, second-born son, will never be the earl like his father, but he did inherit his mother’s strength-and the will to realize his destiny…Simon Kerslake’s father sacrificed everything t
- Author: Archer, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1250101999
- Language: English
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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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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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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
$13.95 Read moreIn 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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Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency
$18.99 Add to cartDiscover a feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight the Regency women who succeeded on their own terms and were largely lost to history — until now.
Regency England … [more below]- Author: Koch, Bea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1538701014
- Language: English
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Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England
$17.95 Add to cartThe stories of four royal women, their lives intertwined by family and bound by persecution, unravel the history of witchcraft in fifteenth-century England.
Until the mass hysteria of the seventeenth- Author: Hollman, Gemma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1643137700
- Language: English
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Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007
$32.95 Read moreJ. G. Ballard’s collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.
J. G. Ballard was a colossal fig- Author: Ballard, J. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048329
- Language: English
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The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
$40.00 Add to cartFrom the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary history of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.
As King James I’s favourite, Buckingham was also h
- Author: Hughes-Hallett, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0062940139
- Language: English
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Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson
$30.00 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Windsor-her one year in China.
Before she was the Duche- Author: French, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1250287472
- Language: English
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Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn
$32.50 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking biography of Queen Anne Boleyn, learn how the ill-fated second wife of Renaissance England’s Henry XVIII met her downfall-and how she came to be so vilified and misunderstood.
- Author: Paranque, Estelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0306835932
- Language: English
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Hadrian’s Wall Path: British Walking Guide: Two-Way: Bowness-Newcastle-Bowness – 64 Large-Scale Walking Maps (1:20,000) & Guides to 30 Town
$19.95 Read moreAll-in-one guide to walking Hadrian’s Wall Path National Trail. Hadrian’s Wall Path, 84 miles from end to end, follows the course of northern Europe’s largest surviving Roman monument, a 2nd-century f
- Series: British Walking Guides
- Author: Stedman, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1912716372
- Language: English
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The Art of Naval Portraiture
$45.00 Read morePortraiture has long been an important tool for creating, supporting and challenging notions of identity. This book will explore individual and collective identities within naval portraiture and how t… [more below]
- Author: Gazzard, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1739154207
- Language: English
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The Castle: A History
$26.00 Read moreA vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the present day
The castle has long had a pivotal place in British life, associated with lordship, landholding, and military- Author: Goodall, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0300251904
- Language: English
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The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
$28.00 Read more“This is rich, florid, funny history, with undertones of human grief . . . Knight is shrewd and perceptive . . . [he] pushes his material into neurobiology, into the nature of placebos and expectation… [more below]
- Author: Knight, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1984879596
- Language: English
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British Aircraft Carriers 1945-2010
$20.00 Read moreThe history of the Royal Navy flagships that led the fleet through the Cold War, ensured victory in the Falklands War, and saw action in Iraq and the Balkans.
In 1945, at the end of World War II, the- Series: New Vanguard #317
- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1472856872
- Language: English
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Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London
$28.00 Read moreThe intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years
“Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the ci- Author: Jackson, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266200
- Language: English
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Henry VIII: The King and His Court
$31.00 Add to cartFor fans of Wolf Hall, Alison Weir’s New York Times bestselling biography of Henry VIII brilliantly brings to life the king, the court, and the fascinating men and women who vied for its pleasures an… [more below]
- Author: Weir, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 29 2002
- ISBN10: 034543708X
- Language: English
