500円 One Battle One Mistake One Curse Benjamin is a Confederate soldier with his future planned. One decision in battle leads to a curse which unravels that future. Now 150 years later, he is still searching for a way to break the curse. Alexandria is one of the youngest tour guides at Gettysburg with...

777円 A major triumph of historical fiction, The Druid King, is a masterly retelling of the life of the legendary general Vercingetorix and his brilliant crusade against the Roman invasion of Gaul.Vercingetorix was both a man of myth and a real historical figureーhe managed, where others had failed, to...

777円 Elizabeth Gaffney’s magnificent, Dickensian Metropolis captures the splendor and violence of America’s greatest city in the years after the Civil War, as young immigrants climb out of urban chaos and into the American dream. On a freezing night in the middle of winter, Gaffney’s nameless hero is ...

496円 The Code of Hammurabi translated by L.W. King "The Code of Hammurabi (also known as the Codex Hammurabi and Hammurabi's Code) was created ca. 1760 BC (middle chronology) and is one of the earliest extant sets of laws, and one of the best preserved examples of this type of document from ancient Ba...

500円 Amy watches in growing fear the worsening confrontation between her husband and her son, until she realises that only one of them can survive it. How long can she keep them apart? The final volume in "Promises to Keep". It follows directly on from Book Two, "Mud and Gold".

376円 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Lord Dorincourt had occasion to wear his grim smile many a time as the days passed by. Indeed, as his acquaintance with his grandson progressed, he wore the smile so often that there were moments when it almost lo...

200円 Tales of Carbons Creek is a collection of short short stories about a small town in the West after the civil War. Some of the characters play the part of narrators and some talk in "illiterate" English.The newspaper plays an important role in Carbons Creek and Sarah, the publisher of the paper, a...

1,709円 An award-winning novel with incredible heart, about life on the prairie as it's rarely been seen When Rachel, hired help in a Chicago boardinghouse, falls in love with Isaac, the boardinghouse owner's son, he makes her a bargain: he'll marry her, but only if she gives up her 160 acres from the Ho...

662円 The narrative dwells on the integrity and upright behaviour of Christian prisoners captured by the Turks. It has been asserted here that a firm belief in God and ones own abilities sustain a person through the hardest times. The work aims at inspiring the Christian youth and leading them to new w...

248円 There are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon ear...

468円 Henri Barbusse's Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (in the original French Le Feu: journal d'une escouade) was one of the first novels about World War I. Published at the end of 1916, it was based on Barbusse's experiences as a French soldier on the Western Front. The novel, written primarily as t...

777円 These 13 stories by the author of The Invisible Man "approach the elegance of Chekhov" (Washington Post) and provide "early explorations of (Ellison's) lifelong fascination with the 'complex fate' and 'beautiful absurdity' of American identity" (John Callahan). First serial to The New Yorker. NPR...