Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Nathan the Wise

    Translated by Edward Kemp ...
    Series series NHB Classic Plays
    Lessing's 18th-century masterpiece, a passionate plea for religious tolerance.Jerusalem, 1192. An uneasy stalemate exists between the Muslim forces of Saladin and the western Crusaders. Caught in the middle are the Jews. All sides respect Nathan for his wisdom and his wealth. But in a war-zone, no one is secure.This acclaimed English version of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 1779 play Nathan the Wise ... Read more

    $21.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle of San Jacinto and the San Jacinto Campaign

    "The Battle of San Jacinto and the San Jacinto Campaign" by Louis Wiltz Kemp and Edward W. Kilman provides a detailed account of one of the pivotal battles in the Texas Revolution. The authors meticulously explore the strategic maneuvers, key figures, and the political climate leading up to the battle. Through vivid descriptions and thorough research, they bring to life the events that unfolded on ... Read more

    $0.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 5/11

    by Edward Kemp ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    An epic and incendiary thriller about the Gunpowder Plot, weaving together the lives of kings, terrorists, priests and spies.It's 1605, and England is riven between Catholic and Protestant. An aristocratic group of young religious fanatics has recruited a mercenary, Guy Fawkes, to strike at the heart of the English Government. But under the ambivalent rule of the new King, James I, fresh from ... Read more

    $16.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Cam Jansen: The First Day of School Mystery #22

    Illustrated by Susanna Natti ...
    Series Book 22 - Cam Jansen
    It's Cam Jansen's first day of fifth grade and she and her friend Eric can't wait to meet their new teacher. Only their day turns out to be more exciting than they ever expected. First their school bus gets stuck in traffic and they have to walk to school. Then they see a car crashed into a tree. And then their new teacher is taken away by the police! "Click," says Cam, using her photographic ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles

    A Novel

    "A massive, erudite, and entertaining novel . . . skillfully weaves historical fact and plausible fiction" to tell the story of Mary Queen of Scots ( New York Newsday).She was a child crowned a queen. . . .A sinner hailed as a saint. . . .A lover denounced as a whore . . .A woman murdered for her dreams . . .Margaret George's national bestselling Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles brings to life ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Cam Jansen: The Green School Mystery #28

    Illustrated by Joy Allen ...
    Series Book 28 - Cam Jansen
    Cam Jansen?s school is going green. For each can or bottle Cam and her classmates bring in to be recycled, the school earns a nickel. But when all the nickels go missing, everyone suspects they were stolen. Can Cam click! and use her photographic memory to solve this mystery? ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • My Kingdom for a Horse

    The War of the Roses

    by Ed West ...
    Series series Very, Very Short History of England
    From William Shakespeare's series of history dramas to Sir Walter Scott and George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, not to mention the smash-hit TV show Game of Thrones, the British civil war of 1455 to 1485 has inspired writers more than any other.Ed West's My Kingdom for a Horse illuminates the bloody war fought for thirty long years between the descendants of King Edward III in a battle ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball #6

    Illustrated by Susanna Natti ...
    Series Book 6 - Cam Jansen
    No mystery is too great for super-sleuth Cam Jansen and her amazing photographic memory!Mysteries follow super-sleuth Cam Jansen everywhere she goes...even to the community hobby show. Cam and Eric are checking out a sports memorabilia booth when a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth disappears. Can Cam catch the thief and recover the Babe's ball?The Cam Jansen books are perfect for young readers ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Royal Stuarts

    by Allan Massie ...
    An "evocative, visceral [and] haunting" look at one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns ( Daily Telegraph, UK)."Compelling . . . Seven hundred years of history pass lightly but with absolute assurance under Mr. Massie's hand." — The Wall Street JournalThis panoramic history of one of the world's most fascinating royal families tells the complete story of the Stuarts, from the first ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Red Roses

    Blanche of Gaunt to Margaret Beaufort

    by Amy Licence ...
    The Wars of the Roses were not just fought by men on the battlefield. Behind the scenes, there were daughters, wives, mistresses, mothers and queens whose lives and influences helped shape the most dramatic of English conflicts.This book traces the story of women on the Lancastrian side, from the children borne by Blanche, wife of John of Gaunt, through the turbulent fifteenth century to the ... Read more

    $14.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Buried Book

    The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

    A "lively and accessible" history of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, and its sensational rediscovery in the nineteenth century ( The Boston Sunday Globe).Composed in Middle Babylonia around 1200 BCE, The Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed later stories that would become as fundamental as any in human history: the Bible, Homer, The Thousand and One Nights. But in 600 BCE, the clay tablets that bore the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Lost King

    The Search for Richard III

    The official inside story of the discovery of the bones of Richard III now a major motion picture starring Sally Hawkins and Steve CooganThe mystery of who Richard III really was has fascinated historians, readers and audiences familiar with Shakespeare's dastardly portrait of a hunchbacked monster of royalty for centuries. In 2012, the remains of a man with a curving spine, who possibly was ... Read more

    $13.99 USD