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Silly Sussex

Silly Sussex

Author: Moore - Judy
ISBN: 9781857702941
Format: Paperback
$18.09

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Lives of the Highwaymen

Lives of the Highwaymen

Author: Charles Johnson, Gos
ISBN: 9781410106360
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Accounts (originally published in 1813) of The Mulled Sack, The Bonnie Boy, The Golden Farmer, and a host...  Read More >>

Executioner: The Chronicles of James Berry, Victorian Hangman

Executioner: The Chronicles of James Berry, Victorian...

Author: Stewart P Evans ,  Suzanne E. Evans
ISBN: 9780750934077
Format: Hardback
$55.00

James Berry, a dour and somewhat pious ex-policeman who hailed from Yorkshire, was Britain's hangman from 1884 to...  Read More >>

Bethlehem Besieged: Stories of Hope in Times of Trouble

Bethlehem Besieged: Stories of Hope in Times of Trouble...

Author: Mitri Raheb
ISBN: 9780800636531
Format: Paperback
$41.99

The pastor of Christmas Church, a Palestinian Lutheran congregation, Mitri Raheb here presents a powerful collection...  Read More >>

The Man Eaters Of Tsavo And Other East African Adventures

The Man Eaters Of Tsavo And Other East African Adventures...

Author: J.H. Patterson
ISBN: 9781419171734
Format: Paperback
$55.31

By the time the zebra was skinned, darkness was fast approaching, so we selected a suitable tree in which to pass...  Read More >>

Defoe on Sheppard and Wild: The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild by Daniel Defoe

Defoe on Sheppard and Wild: The True and Genuine Account...

Author: Richard Holmes ,  Daniel Defoe
ISBN: 9780007111688
Format: Paperback
$21.99

English biographies edited and introduced by Richard Holmes.  Read More >>

Southey on Nelson: The Life of Nelson by Robert Southey

Southey on Nelson: The Life of Nelson by Robert Southey...

Author: Richard Holmes ,  Robert Southey
ISBN: 9780007111701
Format: Paperback
$26.99

English biographies edited and introduced by Richard Holmes.  Read More >>

The Reminiscences of Adm. Leighton W. Smith Jr., USN (Ret.): 1939-

The Reminiscences of Adm. Leighton W. Smith Jr., USN...

Author: Leighton W. Smith, Jr., USN (Ret.) ,  Paul L Stillwell, USNR (Ret.)
ISBN: 9781682474105
Format: Paperback
$150.00

Based on ten interviews conducted by Paul Stillwell from September 2004 to March 2006. The volume contains 927 pages...  Read More >>

A Mind for Murder: The Education of the Unabomber and the Origins of Modern Terrorism

A Mind for Murder: The Education of the Unabomber and...

Author: Alston Chase
ISBN: 9780393325560
Format: Paperback
$47.95

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Ripper Notes: America Looks at Jack the Ripper

Ripper Notes: America Looks at Jack the Ripper

Author: Wolf Vanderlinden ,  John Hacker
ISBN: 9780975912904
Format: Paperback
$23.16

"""Ripper Notes: America Looks at Jack the Ripper"" is a collection of essays about the notorious Whitechapel serial...  Read More >>

Ireland: The Ducal Days

Ireland: The Ducal Days

Author: Michael Twist
ISBN: 9781904871026
Format: Paperback
$18.09

This is an insight into a 20th century way of life that at times borders on the feudal. The author's first hand...  Read More >>

All will be Well

All will be Well

Author: Michael Meegan ,  Julie Pearson
ISBN: 9781785630187
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Based on his own travels through Africa, Michael Meegan shares his unique and inspiring insights into love, hope,...  Read More >>

Damn Senators: My Grandfather and the Story of Washingtons Only World Series Championship

Damn Senators: My Grandfather and the Story of Washingtons...

Author: Mark G. Judge
ISBN: 9781594030451
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Offers a history of baseball in its golden age and an account of the Senators' 1924 World Series victory.  Read More >>

Essex Murders

Essex Murders

Author: Linda Stratmann
ISBN: 9780750935548
Format: Paperback
$38.79

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The Case That Never Dies: The Lindbergh Kidnapping

The Case That Never Dies: The Lindbergh Kidnapping

Author: Lloyd C. Gardner
ISBN: 9780813533858
Format: Hardback
$79.07

When Charles Lindbergh's baby son was mysteriously taken from his home near Hopewell, New Jersey, in 1932, the world...  Read More >>

Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains

Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives...

Author: Lawrence Block ,  William R. Shea (Galileo chair of the History of Science, University of Padua, Italy)
ISBN: 9780195169522
Format: Hardback
$48.95

Fifty biographical profiles of American villains - from the colorful to the unsettling - selected from the American...  Read More >>

Expendable Glory: A Russian Battleship in the Baltic,1915-1917

Expendable Glory: A Russian Battleship in the Baltic,1915-1917...

Author: George Nekrasov
ISBN: 9780880335348
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Nekrasov tells the story of the battleship Slava, whose role in World War I was vital to Russia's defense against...  Read More >>

Ten Percent of Nothing

Ten Percent of Nothing

Author: Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN: 9780809325757
Format: Hardback
$51.70

Former FBI agent Jim Fisher upends the genteel racket of fee-based literary agents and vanity publishers in this...  Read More >>

The Rabbi and the Hit Man

The Rabbi and the Hit Man

Author: Arthur J Magida
ISBN: 9780060935610
Format: Paperback
$36.83

Recounts the two trials of New Jersey rabbi Fred Neulander for the murder of his wife, describing the first trial's...  Read More >>

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith...

Author: Jon Krakauer
ISBN: 9781400032808
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Krakauer shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief in this true story...  Read More >>

The Public Versus M. Gustave Flaubert

The Public Versus M. Gustave Flaubert

Author: Various ,  Kessinger Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781419179365
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Here we are not concerned with a newspaper article, but entirely with a romance, which begins the first of October,...  Read More >>

A Book Of Scoundrels

A Book Of Scoundrels

Author: Charles Whibley
ISBN: 9781419100222
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Of all the heroes who have waged a private and undeclared war upon their neighbours, Louis-Dominique Cartouche was...  Read More >>

Jim Cummings Or The Great Adams Express Robbery

Jim Cummings Or The Great Adams Express Robbery

Author: Frank Pinkerton
ISBN: 9781419127557
Format: Paperback
$55.31

Jim Cummings Or The Great Adams Express Robbery With A Portrait Of The Notorious Jim Cummings And Scenes Connected...  Read More >>

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