Historical - 20th Century - General

  • When We Chased the Light

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    A Hollywood legend. A legacy of secrets. An epic and emotional novel about forgiveness, fame, family, and truly unconditional love by the bestselling author of When We Were Enemies.

    Christie’s auction

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    • Author: Bleeker, Emily
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 363
    • Publish Date: October 22 2024
    • ISBN10: 1662517076
    • Language: English
  • Murder of a Recluse

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    Who killed the reclusive Agatha Dobbs? Newly married Elizabeth Wilkins is determined to prove Agatha’s niece’s innocence in this compelling 1920s mystery.

    October, 1926. Newly married Elizabeth Wilkin

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    • Series: Oak Park Village Mystery #3
    • Author: Dams, Jeanne M.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: March 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 1448314771
    • Language: English
  • Grace of the Empire State

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    In this breathtaking debut novel, a daring dancer must take her twin brother’s place as a riveter high atop the in-progress Empire State Building to save her family from ruin.

    After the death of thei

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    • Author: Tizzard, Gemma
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: January 28 2025
    • ISBN10: 1668056941
    • Language: English
  • The Many Lives & Loves of Hazel Lavery

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    In the heart of tumultuous times, amidst the grandeur of Victorian opulence, there existed an American socialite whose influence altered the course of the Anglo-Irish treaty: Lady Hazel Lavery

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    • Author: Cahall, Lois
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 310
    • Publish Date: January 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 1962465624
    • Language: English
  • A History of the Big House

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    This vibrant family saga chronicles the rise and fall of the Nassar clan, as they navigate the great events of the 20th century in Lebanon, from the Ottoman Empire to the French Mandate.

    At the end of

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    • Author: Majdalani, Charif
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: December 17 2024
    • ISBN10: 1635423406
    • Language: English
  • The Trinity of Fundamentals

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    The Trinity of Fundamentals follows the story of 22-year-old Kan’an during his nine years of hiding from the occupation between 1982 and 1991. Driven by an unshakable commitment to the Palestinian cau

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    • Author: Refeedie, Wisam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 364
    • Publish Date: January 19 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798988260219
    • Language: English
  • No Entry Zone

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    This humorous satire on communist Poland in the 1970’s takes place in an imaginary hotel deep in the Tatra Forest of Poland. Based on a story within a story recounted to the author, the hotel is a lux… [more below]

    • Author: Roman, Romuald
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 280
    • Publish Date: November 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798888550038
    • Language: English
  • The Diver

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    Marta doesn’t mean to kill her husband. In fact, she hardly believes that he’s dead. After a dramatic accident leaves him drowned at the bottom of Lake Michigan, she embarks on a grief-fueled descent … [more below]

    • Author: Knight, Samsun
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 237
    • Publish Date: November 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1609389271
    • Language: English
  • The County Line

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    From Steve Weddle, the author who the New York Times calls “downright dazzling,” comes the story of a prodigal son returning home to hard times and harder choices during the Great Depression.

    Life has

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    • Author: Weddle, Steve
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 301
    • Publish Date: February 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 166251526X
    • Language: English
  • Nosotros DOS En La Tormenta / Us Two in the Storm

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    –Ese es tu problema. No se puede dudar en el medio de una guerra popular,
    Cabez?n.

    –A vencer o morir, como dicen ustedes.


    — M?s bien que a vencer o morir!


    — Y no pensaste qu? pasa si no vencemos?
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    • Author: Sacheri, Eduardo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 6073832397
    • Language: Spanish
  • The Berlin Apartment

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    “Wholly immersive and impeccably researched, Bryn Turnbull’s tale brings the time vividly to life.” Toronto Star on The Paris Deception

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    • Author: Turnbull, Bryn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: August 27 2024
    • ISBN10: 0778305457
    • Language: English
  • Fathers and Sons and Other Village Idiots: Underdogs and Angels in 1969 South Brooklyn

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    Life’s too precious to be careful with. Kazimierz Baranski achieved that level of self-awareness during the last months of his 77-year-long life.

    Fathers and Sons and Other Village Idiots is partly a

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    • Author: Warren, Billy
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 254
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798991356107
    • Language: English
  • March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 4

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    In March 1917, Book 4 the willing and unwilling participants of the Russian Revolution try to make sense of their next steps amidst unraveling chaos.

    One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Re

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  • The Berlin Apartment

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    “Wholly immersive and impeccably researched, Bryn Turnbull’s tale brings the time vividly to life.” Toronto Star on The Paris Deception

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    • Author: Turnbull, Bryn
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: August 27 2024
    • ISBN10: 0778305503
    • Language: English
  • The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard

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    New York Times bestselling author Natasha Lester delivers a brilliant blend of feminism, fashion, and history in this bold novel set against the real-life designers’ showdown in Versailles in the 1970

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    • Author: Lester, Natasha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: July 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 1538706962
    • Language: English
  • Lost on Cherry Street

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    Peggy O’Rourke, forced with her family to leave Ireland during the Potato Famine, is the only one to survive the treacherous Atlantic crossing on the infamous coffin ships to America. She journeys fro

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    • Author: Donahue, Jack
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 360
    • Publish Date: June 25 2024
    • ISBN10: 1958901881
    • Language: English
  • Like Family

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    “In Like Family, Feeney not only brings us back to the terrifying time when the Spanish flu had its hold on us, but also beautifully explores the meaning of family.” -Ann Hood, author of The Stolen Ch

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    • Author: Feeney, Michele M.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 220
    • Publish Date: August 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 1685134637
    • Language: English
  • Arsenic at Ascot

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    Saddle up for this first class historical mystery, perfect for fans of Helena Dixon and Verity Bright.

    London, 1918

    Fiona Figg finds herself back in Old Blighty saddled with shuffling papers for the war

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    • Author: Oliver, Kelly
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 282
    • Publish Date: November 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 1804831867
    • Language: English
  • The Red Road

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    There’s no greater duty than family…

    At twenty-years old, Alder never asked to be the man of the house, life just happened. He was the oldest of twelve to a widowed Irish mother. Now he is being torn

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    • Author: McCarthy, J. E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 204
    • Publish Date: April 18 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798988257233
    • Language: English
  • Back Off I’m a Dalton

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    Tragically abused as a young child, by an unstable mother, Frank ‘Dalton’ Holliday struggled with his fate in the post Sharecropper era in rural South Carolina. Frank eventually managed to escape his

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    • Author: Holliday, Carl Franklin ‘Dalton’
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 338
    • Publish Date: June 27 2023
    • ISBN10: 0974541486
    • Language: English
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