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  • New Fire

    by Philip Dickinson ...
    Drought has taken a terrible toll on the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, but worse is still to come. It is the final days of the sacred calendar and the New Fire must be lit, to appease the gods and keep an apocalypse at bay.Meanwhile, war and dark politics are at work. The high priest hatches a devious plot to undermine Tlacaelel, the ruler’s brother, and break the stranglehold of the burgeoning ... Read more

    $2.67 USD

  • Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing

    by Philip Dickinson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination. From the decolonizing poetics of the Caribbean to the white writing of South Africa, from the aesthetics of post-imperial disappointment to postcolonial theory itself, it develops an account of the textual and philosophical interpenetration of postcolonial ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774

    Enriched edition. Colonial Virginia Tutor's Journal, 1773–74

    by Philip Vickers Fithian ...
    Philip Vickers Fithian's "Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774" offers an intimate glimpse into American colonial life through the eyes of a young tutor in Virginia's plantation society. The text is composed of candid journal entries and letters, characterized by Fithian's meticulous attention to detail and evocative prose. It provides ... Read more

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  • Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774

    Enriched edition. Insights into 18th-Century Plantation Life and Education

    by Philip Vickers Fithian, Valerie Mercer ...
    Philip Vickers Fithian's "Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774" offers a compelling glimpse into plantation life in 18th-century Virginia through the eyes of a tutor. Written in an engaging, personal style, the journal meticulously details Fithian's experiences, observations, and reflections on the societal dynamics of slavery, education, ... Read more

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  • Aztec

    by Gary Jennings ...
    Series Book 1 - Aztec
    Gary Jennings's Aztec is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America.Told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction, Mixtli-Dark Cloud, Aztec reveals the very depths of Aztec civilization from the peak and feather-banner splendor of the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan to the arrival of Hernán Cortás and his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Joseph Andrews & Shamela

    by Henry Fielding ...
    SHAMELA is a brilliant parody of Samuel Richardson's PAMELA, in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master's advances and is eventually 'rewarded' with marriage. Fielding's far more spirited and sexually honest heroine, by contrast, merely uses coyness and mock modesty as techniques to catch a rich husband. JOSEPH ANDREWS, Fielding's first full-length novel, can also be seen as a ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Servant of the Underworld

    by Aliette de Bodard ...
    Series Book 1 - Obsidian and Blood
    The first book in the critically acclaimed Obsidian and Blood trilogy:Year One-Knife, Tenochtitlan the capital of the Aztecs. Human sacrifice and the magic of the living blood are the only things keeping the sun in the sky and the earth fertile.A Priestess disappears from an empty room drenched in blood. It should be a usual investigation for Acatl, High Priest of the Dead--except that his ... Read more

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  • Abigail Adams: Letters (LOA #275)

    by Abigail Adams ...
    Series Book 4 - Library of America Adams Family Collection
    Includes 430 letters—many published for the first time—to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many othersAbigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Hour of the Gate

    by Alan Dean Foster ...
    Series Book 2 - The Spellsinger Adventures
    Marooned in another universe, a musician leads a motley army to save two worlds, in an entertaining tale by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.Jon-Tom just wanted to go home. Trapped in a world where animals speak and magic is real, the American college student yearned for an ordinary dorm-room life. But here his music has magical power—even if he can't control it—which may be able to save ... Read more

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  • Diary of Anna Green Winslow

    by Alice Morse Earle, Editor ...
    This edition features• illustrations• linked FootnotesFOREWORD.IN the year 1770, a bright little girl ten years of age, Anna Green Winslow, was sent from her far away home in Nova Scotia to Boston, the birthplace of her parents, to be "finished" at Boston schools by Boston teachers. She wrote, with evident eagerness and loving care, for the edification of her parents and her own practice in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom – Incredible Escape of William & Ellen Craft from Slavery (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A True and Thrilling Tale of Deceit, Intrigue and Breakout from the Notorious Southern Slavery

    by William Craft, Ellen Craft, Callum Deneford ...
    Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom is a landmark antebellum slave narrative that combines adventure, testimony, political argument, and moral indictment. Recounting the Crafts' daring 1848 escape from Georgia to the North, the work turns disguise, mobility, and literacy into instruments of liberation. Its central episode—Ellen Craft's passing as a white male enslaver while William travels as her ... Read more

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  • Sword-Born

    by Jennifer Roberson ...
    Series Book 5 - Tiger and Del
    The fifth book in the Sword-Dancer saga continues the legendary adventures of Tiger and Del, magic wielders and skilled warriorsIn the three years since Tiger and Del’s fateful meeting, these mismatched companions have become true partners, their alliance forged by blood, magic, danger, adventure…and something more.Exiled from both the North and the South, the two have now set sail to search for ... Read more

    $7.99 USD