Historical

Historical

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Clarion Books

True Wonder Comic Book Hero...

$17.99

Perhaps the most popular female superhero of all time, Wonder Woman was created by Bill Marston in 1941, upon the suggestion of his wife, Elizabeth. Wonder Woman soon showed what women can do - capture enemy soldiers, defeat criminals, become president, and more. Her path since has inspired women...

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Prince & Dressmaker Graphic...

$17.99

Paris, at the dawn of the modern age. Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride - or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia, the hottest ...

SIMON & SCHUSTER

Wake Hidden History Women L...

$29.99

Dr. Rebecca Hall, an historian, is the granddaughter of slaves and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back set. But Rebecca decides to look deeper, and she finds women warriors everywhere. Part graphic nov...

Smith Street Books

The Queer Film Guide: 100 g...

$19.95

Enjoy your night in with these movies that tell queer stories. Have you noticed something about every “100 Greatest Movies Ever Made” list? The people in those movies . . . they’re almost all straight, white men. With so much incredible cinema to choose from, those lists only begin to peer into t...

Random House Books for Young Readers

History Smashers: Christoph...

$8.99

Myths! Lies! Secrets! Uncover the hidden truth about Christopher Columbus, and learn all about the Taino people. Perfect for fans of the I Survived books and Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales. In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean and discovered America. Right? WRONG! Columbus never a...

Laser Wolf Attack

Snarlagon

$10.00

High school students, Franklin and Mariah, have their first date hijacked by giant battling monsters, overbearing parents, and an annoying little brother named Joshy. The ultimate third wheel. In Southern California, 1968, giant crustaceans emerge from the sea and march for the city! The experts ...

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Pride and Prejudice and Pit...

$19.99

From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart and She Gets the Girl comes a fresh and inventive sapphic romantic comedy that’s What If It’s Us meets Bridgerton. What if you found a once-in-a-lifetime love…just not in your lifetime? Audrey Cameron has lost her spark. But after ge...

Knopf Books for Young Readers

The Montague Twins: The Wit...

$25.99

Brothers. Detectives. Witches? Meet Pete and Alastair Montague in the first installment of a new graphic novel duology that is the Hardy Boys meets Paper Girls. Pete and Alastair Montague are just a couple of mystery-solving twins, living an ordinary life. Or so they thought. After a strange stor...

Signet

The Fall of the House of Us...

$5.95

Classic tales of mystery, terror, and suspense, including The Fall of the House of Usher—the inspiration for the Netflix series from Mike Flanagan, the director of The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass!. This volume gathers together fourteen of Edgar Allan Poe's richest and most influentia...

DC Comics

Zatanna & The Ripper TPB Vo...

$14.99

A moment of magical desperation sends Zatanna back in time to 1888 London. Now she needs answers... and the only way to get them may be through serial killer Jack the Ripper.On her 21st birthday, Zatanna Zatara—assistant to the most talented magician in the world—is attacked and bested by a myste...

DK PUBLISHING CO

Rebel Folklore: Empowering ...

$25.00

Rebel Folklore gathers 50 of the darkest and most complicated folktale characters from around the world, showing readers why we should care about the rebels and misfits of ancient stories.. Folktales were humble stories, passed down generations by those on the fringes of society: women, peasants,...

IDW Publishing

Earthdivers TPB Volume 01 K...

$17.99

The year is 2112, and it's the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the desert and figured out where everything took a tur...

Harry N. Abrams

Dogs: A History of Our Best...

$19.99

This illustrated history of dogs, from award-winning author-illustrator Lita Judge, explores how humans’ partnership with dogs changed our lives and theirsOf all the animals on the planet, dogs have the widest range of roles in our daily lives. They’re protectors, helpers, lifesavers—but most of ...

Verso

Bad Gays: A Homosexual Hist...

$19.95

An unconventional history of homosexualityWe all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those ‘bad gays’ whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Mille...

Penguin Books

Doctors and Distillers: The...

$18.00

"At last, a definitive guide to the medicinal origins of every bottle behind the bar! This is the cocktail book of the year, if not the decade." --Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist and Wicked Plants   "A fascinating book that makes a brilliant historical case for what I've been saying a...