20th Century
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)–an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March–from the author of Bl
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07, 2002
- ISBN10: 038549565X
- Language: English
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end o
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06, 2019
- ISBN10: 1101904216
- Language: English
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The Flame Bearer
$16.99 Add to cartThe tenth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)–the basis for
- Series: Saxon Tales #10
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0062250809
- Language: English
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To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton
$16.95 Add to cartA fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America.
Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those interested in th
- Author: Newton, Huey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0872865290
- Language: English
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
$9.99 Add to cartUpdated with enlightening new material, this is the complete, definitive edition of Anne Frank‘s diary, “the single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust” (The New York Times Book Review) … [more below]
- Author: Frank, Anne
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 03 1997
- ISBN10: 0553577123
- Language: English
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
$25.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of … [more below]
- Author: Yergin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1439110123
- Language: English
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
$20.00 Add to cartThis groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow o
- Author: Blackmon, Douglas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0385722702
- Language: English
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Global Justice: Three Essays on Liberation and Socialism
$13.95 Add to cartThree speeches on corporate globalism and imperialism by one of the most widely known guerilla fighters, political theorists, and organizers, Che Guevara.
In this collection of three speeches, Ernesto- Series: The Che Guevara Library
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1644211564
- Language: English
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Like Wafers in Honey
$28.99 Add to cartThis debut novel from food writer Leah Eskin of the Chicago Tribune combines the historical sweep and emotional power of The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer and the resonant use of food and recipes
- Author: Eskin, Leah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1646145747
- Language: English
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A Spoonful of Sugar: The Story of the Upjohn Pharmacy in Disneyland
$29.95 Add to cartTake a nostalgic stroll down Main Street, U.S.A., and step inside a remarkable intersection of American innovation, family legacy, and Disney magic. A Spoonful of Sugar tells the fascinating story of … [more below]
- Author: Hall, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 9798992564501
- Language: English
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Under an African Sky
$19.99 Add to cartSOUTH AFRICA, 1989. In a deeply divided country on the brink of change, two women from vastly different backgrounds share an unlikely friendship.
Sofia Levantis, a Greek-Cypriot immigrant, longs to kee
- Author: Catrakilis, Elene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798999173713
- Language: English
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The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914
$24.99 Add to cartEurope, 1900-1914: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The major topics of the day: terrorism, globalization, immigration, consumerism, the collapse of moral values, and … [more below]
- Author: Blom, Philipp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0465020291
- Language: English
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Turning Point: How Reagan Liberated Grenada and Won the Cold War
$34.99 Add to cartTHE UNTOLD STORY OF REAGAN, THATCHER, THE INVASION OF GRENADA AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE COLD WAR
How Reagan reignited the foreign policy principles that made America a “shining city upon a hi
- Author: Bachman, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 163006288X
- Language: English
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The Brunswick: A World War II Novel of the American South
$18.99 Add to cartWhen Cora provides a safe haven for Jewish refugee children, she discovers that opening her doors means risking everything, including her heart.
In 1939 Georgia, far removed from the war brewing overse… [more below]- Author: Murray, Callie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 080074778X
- Language: English
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All Quiet on the Western Front
$17.99 Add to cartAn immediate sensation when it was published in 1929, Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide since then, making it the best-selling Ge
- Author: Remarque, Erich Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1324097795
- Language: English
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The Lilac People
$17.95 Add to cart“Reminiscent of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See . . . Heart-stopping in its suspense and dramatic reveals.” —The Boston Globe
A moving and deeply humane story about a trans man who must r- Author: Todd, Milo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 164009766X
- Language: English
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Some Greater Awakening
$19.95 Add to cartIn the scorching summer of 1976, free-spirited Francesca Malone finds solitude on a remote mining claim in Northern California-until an eco-activist friend from the city turns up uninvited and roils l
- Author: Abbe, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: December 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798886799361
- Language: English
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Trieste
$19.99 Add to cart“Splendid and absorbing . . . [Drndic] is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick . . . These dense and satisfying pages capture the crowdedness of memory.” — New York Times Book Review
Haya- Author: Drndic, Dasa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0544538501
- Language: English
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The History of the World in 12 Soccer Matches
$28.99 Add to cartAn epic tale of war, revolution, economic crisis, and social transformation told through the story of twelve historic soccer games, with a gallery of unexpected heroes, thwarted tragedies, and stunnin… [more below]
- Author: Bizzotto, Stefano
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1685892299
- Language: English
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Double Play on the Red Line
$24.95 Add to cartTraveling up and down Chicago’s elevated train system’s Red Line, Ratan, a professor of sports journalism, puzzles through a near-lynching of a peanut vendor at Wrigley Field. At first, the peanut ven… [more below]
- Author: Oza, Rajesh C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0883784343
- Language: English
