"A Writer's Year" is a datebook/planner designed especially for writers. It offers a daily schedule where you can track... More > tasks in quarter-hour increments (including on weekends!), plus places to record your daily achievements, your weekly to-do list, upcoming deadlines and assignments, and your writing goals. Get inspired with weekly quotes from famous writers, and track your submissions in the submission tracker at the end of the book. Never ask again, "Where did my time go?" Now you'll know -- and by tracking your time and projects, you'll be able to manage your writing career more effectively! < Less

A glorious collection of floral decorations from Victorian magazines, including endpieces, spot illustrations, corners and... More > frames. Perfect for adorning your scrapbook project, greeting cards, books and special messages. Over 225 Victorian floral images, from single blossoms to gorgeous bouquets. All copyright-free for unrestricted use. < Less

With his usual wit and style, Chesterton takes on a variety of issues that in many cases are as relevant today as in 1900.

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When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sent Sherlock Holmes to his alleged death at Reichenbach Falls, it was to replace him in the... More > pages of The Strand with Brigadier Gerard, a Hussar in the French Army during the wars of Napoleon. Dashing and vain, Gerard is a classic comic foil through which Doyle gives us a delightful look at both French and English foibles. Includes the complete series of stories that ran from 1894-1895 and 1900-1903. < Less

Ranulf de Glanville prepared and codified one of the earliest treatises on English law and custom, in the days of King Henry... More > II. This treatise (translated in 1812 by John Beames) covers such topics as inheritance, women's dowers and marriage, land ownership, rights and responsibilities of tenants and vassals, criminal law and much more. It's an ideal resource for anyone interested in the founding principles of Anglo-Norman law. < Less

From harvesting chestnuts and huckleberries, to warm afternoons baking pies on a wood stove, to romps in the yard with dogs... More > and cats, to gathering wood for the winter, to just sitting around the fire reading, this is a tale of the sort of life you can only find in the "deep woods." Funny, poignant, and engaging, it will take you to a place where time wasn't spent on cell-phones and texting -- but on the sheer enjoyment of what nature and the seasons have to offer. < Less

A humorous and nostalgic memoir of a childhood spent at Vinegar Hill, a Mendocino ridge so remote that you had to drive... More > about a mile past the back of beyond to get there... < Less

A compendium of Victorian needle arts and crafts -- embroidery, crochet, knitting, lace, and more -- from "The Girl's Own... More > Annual" (1880-1890). Beautiful illustrations and complete instructions to recreate these lovely projects today. < Less

In the 1930's, California artist Victor Anderson set out to design a book on historic costume. That book was never finished,... More > and for decades Victor's exquisite sketches sat in a box in the back of a closet. Now, more than 70 years later, Victor's granddaughter has assembled these sketches into an "artist's sketchbook" of historic costume -- a fascinating glimpse of costumes from historic paintings and from costume books of the 1920's. The book focuses primarily on British costume but also touches on several periods of European costume. Ideal for recreationists, SCA members, and writers researching historic costume details. < Less