20th Century
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Gordon Parks: Born Black: A Personal Report on the Decade of Black Revolt 1960-1970
$65.00 Add to cartParks’ impactful images from the forefront of the civil rights and Black Power movements
Originally published in 1971, Gordon Parks’ Born Black was the first book to unite his writing and his photograp
- Author: Parks, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 3969992281
- Language: English
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Just Once
$22.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author “known for her deeply heartfelt novels” (Woman’s World) brings a sweeping and unforgettable World War II love story about a young female spy torn between t
- Author: Kingsbury, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1420518275
- Language: English
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Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of Us Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade
$29.95 Add to cartHow the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad
Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO’s global anticommunist crusade–and its devastatin- Author: Schuhrke, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 183976905X
- Language: English
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Also Here
$18.99 Add to cartAs a young girl Brooke Randel knew little about the Holocaust-just that it was a catastrophe in which millions were murdered, and that her grandma Golda Indig barely escaped that fate. But her Bubbie … [more below]
- Author: Randel, Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1948954974
- Language: English
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What We Tried to Bury Grows Here
$27.00 Add to cartA Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
A masterly crafted and haunting tale of survival, longing, and empathy, set during the Spanish Civil War, now in a new paperback edition. “Julian Zabalbeascoa i- Author: Zabalbeascoa, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1953387535
- Language: English
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Out from the Shadows: Growing up with Holocaust Survivor Parents
$16.95 Add to cartGrowing up, the author and his family constantly lived under the shadow of the Holocaust. There was persistent tension at home. He was frequently told: “Finish your dinner. We didn’t have food like th
- Series: Holocaust Heritage
- Author: Handler, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: November 09 2024
- ISBN10: 9493322882
- Language: English
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The Indian Rope Trick And Other Violent Entertainments
$22.00 Add to cartOne of the most enjoyable resurgences in mystery fiction has been the return of the locked room mystery, a crime scene where the victim is found in a secure space with no visible means of entrance or
- Author: Mead, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1936363909
- Language: English
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The French Winemaker’s Daughter
$18.99 Add to cartSet during World War II, an unforgettable historical novel about love, war, family, and loyalty told in in the voices of two women, generations apart, who find themselves connected by a mysterious and
- Author: Ellsworth, Loretta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0063371812
- Language: English
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The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
$30.00 Add to cartA witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science.
In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Sov- Author: Strausbaugh, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703340
- Language: English
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The Queen’s Faithful Companion: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Beloved Corgi, Susan
$27.99 Read moreFrom USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight comes an endearing and vivid novel told from the unique multi-narrative viewpoints of a young Queen Elizabeth; Hanna Penwyck, the fictionalized Keeper of
- Author: Knight, Eliza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 006338650X
- Language: English
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Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives
$16.95 Add to cartFor readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives–uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their storie… [more below]
- Author: Possanza, Amelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1646222237
- Language: English
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Elsie’s Tune: One Last Song to Overcome
$21.99 Add to cart“She took the record out and put it on. As it started to play, she simply didn’t know if good memories would come back. Maybe bad memories would overtake them. Whichever way she felt, she just knew th
- Author: Watson, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890410399
- Language: English
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The Cursed Friend
$27.99 Read more“Bloody, unapologetic, and wild … I loved it!”–Naomi Krupitsky, New York Times bestselling author of The Family
“The Cursed Friend grabs the reader’s attention and doesn’t let go . . . a magnetic c
- Author: Salvioni, Beatrice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0063234009
- Language: English
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Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right
$30.00 Add to cartA revelatory and comprehensive history of the gay Right from incisive political commentator Neil J. Young.
One of the most maligned, misunderstood, and even mocked constituencies in American … [more below]- Author: Young, Neil J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0226818055
- Language: English
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Los Alemanes / The Germans
$22.95 Add to cartEn 1916, en plena Primera Guerra Mundial, llegan a C?diz dos barcos con m?s de seiscientos alemanes provenientes de Camer?n. Se han entregado en la frontera guineana a las autoridades coloniales por s… [more below]
- Series: Premio Alfaguara de Novela
- Author: Molino, Sergio del
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890981226
- Language: Spanish
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Fallen: George Mallory and the Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition
$29.95 Add to cartAn authoritative, myth-piercing study of the world-famous explorer George Mallory, who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924.
In the years following his disappearance near the summit of Mount Everest i- Author: Conefrey, Mick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366350
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Names: A Tale of Heroism and Reclaiming Identity in Nazi-Occupied France
$18.99 Add to cartFor fans of The Book of Lost Names and The Way We Hide!
In August 1942, French parents were faced with a horrible choice: watch their children die, or abandon them forever. Fifty years later, it become
- Author: Escobar, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1400248418
- Language: English
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Forever Blackbirds
$18.99 Add to cartTold in dual timelines, Forever Blackbirds traverses protagonist Marta Gottlieb’s escape from 1914 Russia to her tribulations in rural North Dakota during WWII. Young Marta, now in her mid-forties, be
- Author: Greenwood, Dian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989510313
- Language: English
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54 Miles
$19.95 Add to cartSet in mid-60s Harlem and Alabama, two families grapple with the promise and brutality of the civil rights era in the American South, reckoning with family secrets, unresolved trauma, and the heavy qu
- Author: Pitts Jr, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1572843373
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Names: A Tale of Heroism and Reclaiming Identity in Nazi-Occupied France
$31.99 Read moreFor fans of The Book of Lost Names and The Way We Hide!
In August 1942, French parents were faced with a horrible choice: watch their children die, or abandon them forever. Fifty years later, it become
- Author: Escobar, Mario
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1400248515
- Language: English
