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Over the weekend, we got in a bunch of used books that we listed for sale on the website. Pictured are some of the books.
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Cleopatra's Shadows, by Emily Holleman Before Caesar and the carpet, before Antony and Actium, before Octavian and the asp, there was Arsinoe.Abandoned by her beloved Cleopatra and an indifferent father, young Arsinoe must fight for her su...

Currently available for sale on our website: Cleopatra's Shadow. It's used, $7.99, and historical fiction.
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The Personal Librarian, by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murra In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on t...

Currently available for sale on our website: The Personal Librarian. It's used, $7.99, and historical fiction.
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Union Square, by Adrian Koesters Union Square, Baltimore, MD, 1952. Koesters picks up the lives of five characters living around the square whose most notable resident was H.L. Mencken. They are poor, even benighted, subject to abuse...

Currently available for sale on our website: Union Square. It's used, $8, and historical fiction set in Baltimore, MD.
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Changing Woman, by Venetia Hobbs Lewis Arizona Territory, 1871. Valeria Obregón and her ambitious husband, Raúl, arrive in the raw frontier town of Tucson hoping to find prosperity. Changing Woman, an Apache spirit who represents the natur...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is Changing Woman.
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The Riddle of the River, by Catherine Shaw The 19th century is drawing to a close and women's roles―and their clothes―seem to have gotten less constricting. Vanessa Weatherburn's passion for science and mathematics, once an embarrassing oddity...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is The Riddle of the River.
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The Walking People, by Mary Beth Keane Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Fifty y...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is The Walking People.
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, by Elaine Weiss The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political victories in American history: the down and dirty campaign to get the last state to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote....

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote.
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Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonapa From the award-winning historian and author of Revolutionary Mothers (“Incisive, thoughtful, spiced with vivid anecdotes. Don’t miss it.”—Thomas  Fleming) and Civil War Wives (“Utterly fresh . . . Sen...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte.
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The 6:41 to Paris, by Jean-Phillippe Blondel Cécile, a stylish forty-seven-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she's exhausted. These trips back home are always s...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is The 6:41 to Paris.
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A Sea Dog's Tale: The True Story of a Small Dog on a Big Ocean, by Pet A family with wanderlust, a sailboat to carry them across oceans, and an 11-pound dog to watch over them… These are the elements of this delightful memoir of  adventurous living. Young newlyweds Peter...

One of the books we listed for sale on the website is A Sea Dog's Tale: The True Story of a Small Dog on a Big Ocean.
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Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life, by Heather Cass Wh Heather Cass White’s Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading, an...

One of the books we listed for sale on the website was Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life.
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Over the weekend, we got in a bunch of used books that we listed for sale on the website. Pictured are some of the books.
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Recently listed for sale on our website! It's used and $8.99.
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Over the weekend, we listed a bunch of used books for sale on the website.
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the "dark ages" - learning, scholarship, and culture disappeared from the European continent. The great heritage of western civilization - from the G...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe.
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Perry Hall Mansion, by Sean Kief and Jeffrey Smith Perry Hall Mansion, constructed c. 1775 as the country estate of Harry Dorsey and Prudence Carnan Gough, has long been considered one of the most historic structures in Baltimore County, Maryland. Nes...

One of the books we have in stock is Perry Hall Mansion.
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The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760-1785, by D In The Long Fuse, Don Cook investigates the American Revolution from the British side, throwing new light on this colorful age and its players. He draws from a multitude of primary sources, including ...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies: 1760-1785.
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Becoming Madame Mao, by Anchee Min From the author of the international bestseller, Red Azalea, comes the stirring, croucally charged story of the woman known as 'the white-boned demon' - the ambitious wife of Chairman Mao whose action...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is Becoming Madame Mao.
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Into the Beautiful North, by Luis Alberto Urrea Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the United States to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is Into the Beautiful North.
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The Men Who Would Be King: The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth I, by Jos The colorful, often tempestuous courtships of Queen Elizabeth I of England (the “virgin Queen”) are brought to breathtaking life in The Men Who Would Be King, a thrilling, utterly fascinating popular ...

One of those books we listed for sale on our website is The Men Who Would Be King: The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth I.
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Marha Ballard, Based on her Diary, 1785- PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812.
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The Last Dickens, by Matthew Pearl Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arrival of Dickens's unfinished fin...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is The Last Dickens.
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The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on th For anyone who has ever wanted to step into the world of a favorite book, here is a pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession.Wendy Mc...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie.
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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented, and wealthy expatriate Americans, they were at the very center of the ...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story.
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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Me Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey—a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam—made by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his ...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Journey Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam.
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life, by Alison Weir In this beautifully written biography, Alison Weir paints a vibrant portrait of a truly exceptional woman and provides new insights into her intimate world.Renowned in her time for being the most beau...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website isEleanor of Aquitaine: A Life.
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The Seamstress of Acadie, by Laura Frantz As 1754 is drawing to a close, tensions between the French and the British on Canada's Acadian shore are reaching a fever pitch. Seamstress Sylvie Galant and her family--French-speaking Acadians wishi...

One of the books we listed for sale on our website is The Seamstress of Acadie.
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