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  • The Book of Lost Books

    An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read

    by Stuart Kelly ...
    A " clever and highly entertaining" look at books through history that were stolen, went missing, or just never got written ( The New York Times).In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it's sobering to realize that some of the world's great prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history, part ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scott-land

    The Man Who Invented a Nation

    by Stuart Kelly ...
    His name and image are everywhere - from Bank of Scotland fivers to the bizarre monument in Edinburgh's city centre. Scott-land presumes that the reader will have only a hazy awareness of Sir Walter Scott, and, although Stuart Kelly will offer insights into Scott's works and biography, this is emphatically not a conventional literary biography, nor is it a critical study. Partly a surreptitious ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gap in the Curtain

    by John Buchan ...
    In an English country house, a strange experiment is about to take place: "A gem . . . unadulterated entertainment" ( The New York Times).In this unique blend of suspense, satire, and science fiction, Sir Edward Leithen settles in for a holiday weekend at Lady Flambard's stately home in the Cotswolds. But the house party turns strange when one of the guests, the enigmatic physicist and ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Highland Widow

    by Walter Scott ...
    Series series Hesperus Classics
    A party on the Highland Tour comes upon a miserable hut hidden away among a patch of cliffs. Upon inquiring about what lies before them, the ladies hear the wretched tale of Elspat MacTavish, the Highland Widow, who is condemned forever to live penitent and alone. After the suppression of the Highland clans, the widow' s son, Hamish, sets off with honorable intentions of joining the coalition on ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Lost Books

    An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read

    by Stuart Kelly ...
    In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books is the first guide to literature’s what-ifs and never-weres.In compulsively readable fashion, Stuart ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The True History of Merlin the Magician

    by Anne Lawrence-Mathers ...
    A medieval historian examines what we really know about the man who was "Merlin the Magician" and his impact on Britain.Merlin has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of literature and Arthurian myth is well known, his "historical" figure and his relation to ... Read more

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  • Hot Protestants

    A History of Puritanism in England and America

    by Michael P. Winship ...
    "The rise and fall of transatlantic puritanism is told through political, theological, and personal conflict in this exceptional history." ( Publishers Weekly, starred review)Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Marie-Antoinette

    The Making of a French Queen

    by John Hardman ...
    This "wonderfully gripping biography" digs beneath the famous legend to present a nuanced and revealing portrait of a serious-mined monarch (Allan Massie, Wall Street Journal).As the last Queen of France before the French Revolution, Marie-Antoinette was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, while today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. ... Read more

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  • The Crusader Armies

    by Steve Tibble ...
    A major history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies.During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly sophisticated strategies of both attack and defense, which evolved during the course of the battles. In this ambitious new work, Steve Tibble draws on a wide range of Muslim texts and archaeological evidence as ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heaven's Breath

    A Natural History of the Wind

    by Lyall Watson ...
    A “comprehensive and fascinating study” of how wind has shaped the world as we know it, affecting all aspects of human and natural life—from geography to political history, plant life to psychology, and biology to philosophy (The Observer)Wind is everywhere and nowhere. Wind is the circulatory system of the earth, and its nervous system, too. Energy and information flow through it. It brings ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Usurpers, A New Look at Medieval Kings

    by Michele Morrical ...
    This examination of six usurper kings of England, and the people and circumstances surrounding them, is "a masterpiece of academic scholarship" ( Midwest Book Review).In the Middle Ages, England had to contend with a string of usurpers who disrupted the British monarchy—and ultimately changed the course of European history by deposing England's reigning kings and seizing power for themselves. Some ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Century of Female Revolution

    From Peterloo to Parliament

    by Glynis Cooper ...
    This dramatic social history follows the struggle for women's rights in England from the Industrial Revolution to the Suffragist victory after WWI.The 100 years from 1819-1919 saw remarkable change for women in England. From the early nineteenth century, when women were not even considered 'persons' under the law, they achieved full legal rights and status. The doors of education and employment ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus