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  • Every Valley

    The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah

    by Charles King ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Messiah."A delicious history of music, power, love, genius, royalty and adventure."—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World"A book of power and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sunset Pass

    by Charles King ...
    Excerptforward to grasp the captain's saddle, when a low exclamation was heard from that officer himself and, peering at him through the trees, the Mexican could see that he was eagerly pointing westward and calling Pike to his side. Instinctively Manuelito glanced over his shoulder and saw a sight that told him horse-thieving would not save his tawny hide; that told him their retreat was cut off, ... Read more

    $4.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Midnight at the Pera Palace

    The Birth of Modern Istanbul

    by Charles King ...
    The inspiration for the Netflix series premiering March 3rd"Hugely enjoyable, magnificently researched, and deeply absorbing." —Jason Goodwin, New York Times Book ReviewAt midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock.Yet in Istanbul—an ancient ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Gods of the Upper Air

    How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

    by Charles King ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award WinnerFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFrom an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pioneered it—a sweeping chronicle of discovery and the fascinating origin story of our multicultural world.**A century ago, everyone knew that people were ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Charles King: 14 western novels

    by Charles King ...
    This book-collection file includes: An Apache Princess, A Tale of the Indian Frontier; A Daughter of the Sioux, A Tale of the Indian Frontier; The Deserter; Foes in Ambush; From the Ranks; Lanier of the Cavalry or A Week's Arrest; Marion's Faith; Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier; Sunset Pass or Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land; Tonio Son of the Sierras, A ... Read more

    $1.16 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Every Valley

    The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah

    by Charles King ...
    Narrated by Juliet Stevenson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 46 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Messiah."A delicious history of music, power, love, genius, royalty and adventure."—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World"A book of power and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Moldovans

    Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture

    by Charles King ...
    Series series Studies of Nationalities
    The first English-language book to present a complete picture of this intriguing East European borderland, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture, illuminates the perennial problems of identity politics and cultural change that the country has endured. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • AN APACHE PRINCESS (Illustrated) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Western Classic - A Tale of the Indian Frontier (From the Renowned Author A Daughter of the Sioux, The Colonel's Daughter, Fort Frayne and An Army Wife)

    by Charles King, Olive Briarford ...
    An Apache Princess (Illustrated) is a frontier romance of military suspense, set amid the tensions of the Apache campaigns and the isolated life of the American army post. Charles King combines brisk adventure plotting with the conventions of late nineteenth-century sentimental fiction: honor, mistaken loyalties, courtship, racial encounter, and the testing of character under danger. Its ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier

    by Charles King ...
    Series series World Classics
    "Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier" collects five of Captain Charles King's frontline stories, and offers a glimpse of American army life in the mid- to late 19th century. It follows his campaigns in the American-Indian wars in a number of battles. It offers valuable insights into life in the military at this time as well as stunning first-hand accounts of combat in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Ghost of Freedom

    A History of the Caucasus

    by Charles King ...
    The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the twentieth century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly independent countries and sparked the devastating war in Chechnya. Combining riveting storytelling with ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Charles King: 14 western novels

    by Charles King ...
    This book-collection file includes: An Apache Princess, A Tale of the Indian Frontier; A Daughter of the Sioux, A Tale of the Indian Frontier; The Deserter; Foes in Ambush; From the Ranks; Lanier of the Cavalry or A Week's Arrest; Marion's Faith; Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier; Sunset Pass or Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land; Tonio Son of the Sierras, A ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Black Sea: A History

    A History

    by Charles King ...
    The lands surrounding the Black Sea share a colourful past. Though in recent decades they have experienced ethnic conflict, economic collapse, and interstate rivalry, their common heritage and common interests go deep. Now, as a region at the meeting point of the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Middle East, the Black Sea is more important than ever. In this lively and entertaining book, which is ... Read more

    $37.79 USD