20th Century
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The Band That Played on: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic
$19.99 Add to cartThe movies, the documentaries, the museum exhibits. They often tell the same story about the “unsinkable” Titanic, her wealthy passengers, the families torn apart, and the unthinkable end. But never b
- Author: Turner, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1595555463
- Language: English
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El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory
$30.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America’s most famous border town.
El Paso has been called the “Ell- Author: Ulloa, Jazmine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593471865
- Language: English
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A Table for Fortune: Box Set
$149.99 Read moreIn A Table for Fortune, National Book Award-winner William T. Vollmann depicts from the balcony-level of history the last half-century of American politics, war, and life. At once a family drama, bild… [more below]
- Author: Vollmann, William T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 3400
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1648211887
- Language: English
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Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle
$20.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history: the period aft
- Author: Green, Kristen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062268686
- Language: English
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The Informer
$12.95 Add to cartA tale of temptation, betrayal, and reprisal, this powerful novel is set in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War. It tells of Gypo Nolan, who informs on a wanted comrade. The source of the Academy Awa… [more below]
- Series: Harvest/HBJ Book
- Author: O’Flaherty, Liam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 17 1980
- ISBN10: 0156443562
- Language: English
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine
$19.99 Add to cartBy the authors of the national bestseller Wittgenstein’s Poker, a riveting account of the legendary 1972 chess match between Boris Spassky, the world champion from the Soviet Union, and the American c
- Author: Edmonds, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0060510250
- Language: English
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Whispers in the Glen
$17.95 Add to cartA tale inspired by real events of sisterhood, heartbreak and resilience in a Highland village home front in World War II Scotland.
Clova, Scotland, 1942. As World War II roars overseas, sisters Nell an
- Author: Lawrence, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1916812430
- Language: English
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Cat and Mouse
$13.95 Add to cartThe setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator recalls a boyhood scene in which a black cat pounces on his friend Mahlke’s “mouse”-his prominent Adam’s apple. This incident sets off a wild se… [more below]
- Series: Danzig
- Author: Grass, Günter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0156155516
- Language: English
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Your Presence Is Mandatory
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2025 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Gold Medal Winner for the 94th Annual California Book Awards Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
A riveting debut novel, ba- Author: Vasilyuk, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1639737251
- Language: English
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On Both Sides of the Wall: A Resistance Fighter’s Firsthand Account of the Warsaw Ghetto
$29.00 Add to cartThe essential new edition of one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, On Both Sides of the Wall, which recounts one woman’s harrowing experiences as a c… [more below]
- Author: Meed, Vladka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544104
- Language: English
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Where the False Gods Dwell
$18.95 Add to cartInspired by real-life legendary choreographer Katherine Dunham’s groundbreaking expedition into the heart of Caribbean dance culture, this uniquely captivating novel imagines the experiences of three … [more below]
- Author: Bryce, Denny S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 149673789X
- Language: English
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Mafia Secrets: Untold Tales from the Hollywood Godfather
$29.00 Add to cartA Mafia insider and authentic Hollywood tough guy reveals the explosive secrets he’s learned (and kept) for decades in this shocking tell all that unveils the hidden worlds of film and organized crime… [more below]
- Author: Russo, Gianni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0806544759
- Language: English
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Mule Boy
$17.99 Add to cartAn elegiac novel of men lost in a coal mining disaster and the boy who survives to tell the story
On New Year’s Day, 1929, Ondro Prach, the thirteen-year-old son of Slovak immigrants in Pennsylvania co
- Author: Krivak, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 195427646X
- Language: English
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Reporter: A Memoir
$21.00 Add to cart“Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh’s warmth and humanity. This book is essential reading for every jo… [more below]
- Author: Hersh, Seymour M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0307276619
- Language: English
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Underground: My Life with Sds and the Weathermen
$18.99 Add to cart“Honest and funny, passionate and contrite, meticulously researched and deeply philosophical: an essential document on the ’60s.” —Washington Post
Mark Rudd, former ’60s radical student leader and on
- Author: Rudd, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 006147276X
- Language: English
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Finding My Olympia
$15.95 Add to cartGreek-American Yianna embarks on a desperate quest in 1955 Woodland, California to find her missing sister and discovers her own sense of purpose and the profound significance of family, love, and for
- Author: Econome, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: October 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1734428821
- Language: English
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Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
$33.00 Add to cartFrom renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dik?tter, a commanding new history of China’s path to Communism.
The history of modern China has long been portrayed as a tale of Communists fighting in th- Author: Dikötter, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1639733973
- Language: English
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The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy
$35.00 Add to cartFor fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson, the gripping story of the assassination of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the deadly game of cat and mouse that preceded it
On August 20, 1940, Leon T- Author: Ireland, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593187105
- Language: English
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A Crown of Stars
$28.00 Add to cartA sumptuously vivid and poignant account of the Lusitania‘s fateful last days, drawn from the true story of an extraordinary young actress who survived the unthinkable–for fans of Marie Benedict, Lou… [more below]
- Author: Abe, Shana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1496751353
- Language: English
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Rogue Elephant: How the Republicans Went from the Party of Business to the Party of Chaos
$29.95 Add to cartA crucial explanation of the Republican party’s increasing radicalization over the past fifty years
Rogue Elephant traces the radicalization of the Republican Party over the past fifty years, arguing- Author: Heideman, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 180429408X
- Language: English
