20th Century
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The People’s War: Forgotten Voices from World War Two
$47.99 Read more“There was a German bomber flying right towards us – a Dornier, one of their biggest. It was so low we could see the pilot flying it and the gunner in the nose of the bomber pointing his machine gun a
- Author: Willis, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1785949004
- Language: English
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Billy Boyle (Deluxe Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartBilly Boyle’s illustrious debut as his Uncle “Ike” Eisenhower’s personal wartime investigator set the stage for twenty years of the critically acclaimed WWII mystery series. This special edition inclu… [more below]
- Series: Billy Boyle WWII Mystery
- Author: Benn, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1641297840
- Language: English
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The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago
$24.00 Add to cartWith a thrilling, fast-paced narrative, award-winning journalist Douglas Perry vividly captures the sensationalized circus atmosphere that gave rise to the concept of the celebrity criminal- and gave … [more below]
- Author: Perry, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119222
- Language: English
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The Matchbox Girl: Lose Yourself in This Autumn’s Most Captivating Historical Novel
$29.99 Add to cart- Author: Jolly, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 152668103X
- Language: English
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck’s classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period… [more below]
- Author: Shattuck, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 12 1968
- ISBN10: 0394704150
- Language: English
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Modeline of California: Pioneer of Modern Lighting
$60.00 Add to cartReaders step into the history of Modeline, the brand that revolutionized midcentury modern lighting. Modeline of California: Pioneer of Modern Lighting unveils Bernie Roberts’s journey from a penniles… [more below]
- Author: Ferrell, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0764370286
- Language: English
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Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin’s bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless a… [more below]
- Author: White, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0812973836
- Language: English
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Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
$35.00 Add to cartAn astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city’s descent into utter annihilation
In 1939, when Ian Buruma’s epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and it- Author: Buruma, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 059365434X
- Language: English
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The Sisters of Book Row
$18.99 Add to cartFrom bestselling author Shelley Noble comes a gripping and timely historical novel of books, banning, and the women who helped save New York’s famed Book Row.
1915: Manhattan’s Book Row, an eclectic- Author: Noble, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 006342391X
- Language: English
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Last Twilight in Paris
$19.99 Add to cartTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
“A fast-paced and vibrant wartime tale of holding on to love against the odds and learning to fight for the truth.” -Kristin Harmel, New York Times best… [more below]
- Author: Jenoff, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0778307999
- Language: English
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The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru
$30.00 Read moreA fearless fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she can trust when an exiled Romanov princess and her brother come to her seeking answers about a decades-old mystery…
Spir- Author: Gilmore, Olesya Salnikova
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593952685
- Language: English
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Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
$39.99 Read moreNever before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. Darkology, from Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes, meticulously unra
- Author: Barnes, Rhae Lynn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1631496344
- Language: English
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The Journal of H?l?ne Berr: A Young Jewish Woman’s Life in Occupied Paris
$17.99 Read more“At once the diary of a young Jewish girl under the German Occupation of Paris, a work of exceptional literary quality, and a powerful historical document” SIMONE WEIL
From April 1942 to March 1944, H?- Author: Berr, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1906694192
- Language: English
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An Infinite Sadness
$17.95 Add to cartIn a small village in the Swiss Alps, in the aftermath of World War II, particle physics and psychiatry grapple with a forever changed world.
Nicholas walks the wooded path between the sanitarium where
- Author: Xerxenesky, Antônio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1917260121
- Language: English
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Okinawa: A Decorated Marine’s Account of the Last Battle of World War II
$24.00 Add to cartPenguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.
Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion
- Author: Leckie, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0140173897
- Language: English
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The Town and the City
$19.99 Add to cart“It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go.”– Kerouac on The Town and the City. Kerouac’s debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 21 1970
- ISBN10: 0156907909
- Language: English
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To Repel Ghosts: The Remix
$24.00 Add to cartRevamped from its original “double album” version of 350 pages into this unique “remix,” To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
In spare, jazzlike- Author: Young, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27 2005
- ISBN10: 037571023X
- Language: English
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I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
$14.99 Add to cart“Steve Earle brings to his prose the same authenticity, poetic spirit, and cinematic energy he projects in his music. I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive is like a dream you can’t shake, offering b… [more below]
- Author: Earle, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0547754434
- Language: English
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To Chase the Glowing Hours: A Novel of Highclere and Egypt
$19.95 Add to cartIn November 1922, Lady Eve, the twenty-one-year-old daughter of the Earl of Carnarvon, embarks on an extraordinary journey from her opulent home of Highclere Castle to the Valley of the Kings in Egypt… [more below]
- Author: Kirkpatrick, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1646036271
- Language: English
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Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music
$14.95 Add to cartTough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music is the definitive history of how a city danced its pain away.
In Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music, music journalist Al Shipley draws from- Author: Shipley, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1917516061
- Language: English
