The Book Company: New Products - Historical

Dead Mentors, Living Wisdom (How History's Greatest Lives Can Guide Our Toughest Moments)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:44:51 +0000

In a world obsessed with finding the perfect mentor, we often overlook the most enduring guides of all, the ones who can't meet us for coffee, but whose lessons echo across generations. New York Times bestselling author Andy Andrews shows how the completed lives of those hold t..

Price: $29.99

Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, 1986-1996

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:04:05 +0000

This useful book is the compilation of bibliographical information accumulated over eleven years (1986–1996) in the annual publication of the New Chaucer Society, Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Features of this comprehensive work include an extensive subject index and a descriptive ann..
Price: $80.00

The Boys of St. Columb's (The Education of a New Ireland)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:46:45 +0000

The Boys of St. Columb's chronicles the schooldays of eight illustrious alumni of St. Columb's College in Derry, Northern Ireland, and the political consequences of their education. A companion to a BBC/RTÉ documentary film, The Boys of St. Columb’s (2010), this book traces the fi..
Price: $35.00

William Still (The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:44:39 +0000

The first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad.
William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first major biography of the free Black abolitionist William Still, who coordinated t..
Price: $32.00

William Still (The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:44:24 +0000

The first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad.
William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first major biography of the free Black abolitionist William Still, who coordinated t..
Price: $39.00

The Poet and the King (Jean de La Fontaine and His Century)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:31:15 +0000

The Poet and the King, described by the New York Review of Books as “the finest and most perceptive of all the innumerable accounts of La Fontaine,” is being offered for the first time in an English translation. La Fontaine, whose works are still memorized by French schoolchil..
Price: $50.00

Fifty Years with Father Hesburgh (On and Off the Record)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:28:01 +0000

For over half a century, Robert Schmuhl interviewed and wrote about Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., who served as the president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 until 1987. Beginning as an undergraduate student during the 1960s, when he covered Hesburgh and Notre Dame for the Price: $24.00

Fifty Years with Father Hesburgh (On and Off the Record)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:27:48 +0000

For over half a century, Robert Schmuhl interviewed and wrote about Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., who served as the president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 until 1987. Beginning as an undergraduate student during the 1960s, when he covered Hesburgh and Notre Dame for the Price: $30.00

Isabelle of France (Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:24:54 +0000

As the only daughter of Blanche of Castile, one of France's most powerful queens, and as the sister of the Capetian saint Louis IX, Isabelle of France (1225-1270) was situated at the nexus of sanctity and power during a significant era of French culture and medieval history. In this ground-brea..
Price: $40.00

The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear (Agitator for the Spirit Land)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:29:53 +0000

John Murray Spear was one of nineteenth-century America's most interesting characters. A leading social agitator against slavery and capital punishment, Spear also became the nation's most flamboyant spiritualist, inventor of “spirit machines,” and advocate of free love. In his captivating biog..
Price: $45.00