20th Century
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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
$32.00 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
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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
$199.99 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
