20th Century
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Where the Girls Were
$29.00 Add to cartThey were sent away to be forgotten. This is their story.
In this electrifying historical novel about coming of age in tumultuous 1960s San Francisco, a pregnant teenager reckons with womanhood and ag- Author: Schatz, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593736974
- Language: English
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The Sisters of Book Row
$30.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0063477963
- Language: English
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The Dangerous Shore: How a Motley Crew of Scientists, Mobsters, Double Agents, Retirees, Volunteer Pilots (and a Boy Scout) Stopped the Invasion of Am
$42.00 Add to cartSara Vladic, New York Times bestselling author of Indianapolis, reveals the gripping, untold history of the United States under attack during World War II and the improbable patriots who stepped up to
- Author: Vladic, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0063321041
- Language: English
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The Boys’ Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945
$19.00 Add to cartThe Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author’s own… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Fussell, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0812974883
- Language: English
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Ruby Falls
$28.00 Add to cartOne body. Five suspects. Total darkness.
A tense, claustrophobic historical mystery set almost entirely underground at the onset of the Great Depression about the discovery of a 150-foot waterfall in t
- Author: Phillips, Gin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 080216692X
- Language: English
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Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
$20.00 Add to cartThe adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed “the lost generation”, are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Cr… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
- Author: Cowley, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140187766
- Language: English
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Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties
$24.95 Add to cartA narrative history of the movement that turned “Orientals” into Asian Americans
Until the political ferment of the Long Sixties, there were no Asian Americans. There were only isolated communities o- Author: Ishizuka, Karen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1781689989
- Language: English
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The Rose and the Yew Tree
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Christie, Agatha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0063452898
- Language: English
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The Quiet Librarian
$19.99 Add to cartAfter the murder of her best friend, a librarian’s search for answers leads back to her own dark secrets in this “searing and timely” novel about a woman transformed by war, family, vengeance, and lov… [more below]
- Author: Eskens, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0316566322
- Language: English
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You Can’t Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson’s Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode with Her
$27.99 Add to cart1,682 miles. The First Lady of the United States. One incredible journey.
At a time when political candidates’ wives were expected to be seen and not heard, Lady Bird Johnson made history as the first
- Author: McKenna Schmidt, Shannon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1464244383
- Language: English
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The Star Society: A Historical Novel
$18.99 Add to cartUncover the captivating tale of two extraordinary sisters in The Star Society, a thrilling historical novel that transports readers from the shadows of the Dutch Resistance to the glitz and glamour of
- Author: Saab, Gabriella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1400351308
- Language: English
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Railsong
$29.99 Add to cart“Magnificent . . . I would follow Miss Chitol to the ends of the earth.” -Kamila Shamsie
“Profoundly tender [and] vigorously alive to the currents of national change.” -Megha Majumdar
From the Man Asian- Author: Bhattacharya, Rahul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1639736220
- Language: English
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The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State
$22.99 Add to cartFifty years ago, a government investigation led by US senator Frank Church uncovered some of the darkest state secrets of the twentieth century. The Church Committee confirmed the nation’s worst fears
- Author: Guariglia, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1324089377
- Language: English
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Intrepid Women: Adventures in Anthropology
$40.00 Add to cartTrue accounts of groundbreaking women anthropologists defying gender norms in the early 20th century.
The extraordinary women featured in Intrepid Women defied early twentieth-century conventions to c
- Author: Nicholson, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246509
- Language: English
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A Task Force Called Faith: The Untold Story of the U.S. Army Soldiers Who Fought for Survival at Chosin Reservoir–And Honor Back Home
$39.95 Add to cartThe forgotten heroes of Chosin–how Task Force Faith fought against impossible odds and a legacy of unfair shame.
On the 75th anniversary of the legendary Battle of Chosin Reservoir, Steve Vogel tells- Author: Vogel, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1493092898
- Language: English
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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
$21.99 Add to cartIn this fully updated second edition of their masterful history, leading historians and best-selling authors Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer uncover the origins of our current moment, answering t
- Series: Fault Lines
- Author: Kruse, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324035544
- Language: English
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Trilog?a de la Noche: La Noche, El Alba, El D?a (Memorias) / The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, and Day (a Memoir)
$14.95 Add to cartTrilog?a esencial dentro de la literatura del Holocausto.
Un adolescente en los campos de exterminio nazis (La noche), el posterior periodo de reflexi?n en Palestina (El alba) y la historia de amor en
- Author: Wiesel, Elie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 6073930011
- Language: Spanish
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The Christmas Cherub
$13.99 Add to cartLove lingers long after the war.
As snow falls gently over postwar Indianapolis, Clara Goodwin hides her heartache behind ribbon, glitter, and fragile hope.
The war may be finished but her fianc?-Jack T
- Author: Wells, Ronda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798998514012
- Language: English
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American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity
$30.00 Add to cartThe critically acclaimed author of Patriots offers profound insight into Vietnam’s place in America’s self-image
How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation?- Author: Appy, Christian G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0143128345
- Language: English
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The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire
$32.00 Add to cartA new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle East
The Ottoman Empire’s collapse at- Author: Aksakal, Mustafa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0691262497
- Language: English
