20th Century
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The Queen’s Faithful Companion: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Beloved Corgi, Susan
$18.99 Add to cartFrom 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: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0063281015
- Language: English
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Cocaine and Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music’s legendary royal couple–George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
By the ea- Author: Coe, Tyler Mahan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1668015188
- Language: English
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A Pair of Wings
$29.99 Add to cartAn airline captain crafts a riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the remarkable true life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who learned to fly at the dawn of aviation and found free
- Author: Hopson, Carole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1250347211
- Language: English
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Last Light
$28.00 Add to cartThe year is 1943. Victorious in North Africa, the Allies send thousands of German prisoners of war to the United States. Severely injured or ill POWS will be treated in U.S. Army hospitals. On a hot d
- Author: Farnsworth, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: March 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1953583849
- Language: English
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The Queen of Steeplechase Park
$20.00 Add to cartThe Queen of Steeplechase Park is the absolutely, positively, practically, almost-true story of infamous burlesque queen and magic meatball maker Belladonna Marie Donato.
Pregnant at fifteen after gle
- Author: Ciminello, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 470
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1942436610
- Language: English
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Faraway the Southern Sky
$17.95 Add to cart“Joseph Andras writes with the swiftness of lightning.”
A biographical historical fiction retelling of Ho Chi Minh’s immigration and radical life in underg
-Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer- Series: Verso Fiction
- Author: Andras, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1804291714
- Language: English
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The Banana Wars
$27.95 Add to cartWinner of the Dzanc Prize
for Fiction Urab?, Colombia, 1990: A violent strike at plantations
across the banana zone leads to crops in flames, managers murdered, and the local
economy teetering on the bri- Author: Grostephan, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1950539946
- Language: English
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Beyond Summerland
$18.99 Read moreThe brand-new page-turning novel from the author of the breakout bestseller The Girl From the Channel Islands!
“From the explosive opening to the profound ending, Beyond Summerland is a wonder of story… [more below]
- Author: Lecoat, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1525831542
- Language: English
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Shadow Men: The Tangled Story of Murder, Media, and Privilege That Scandalized Jazz Age America
$29.00 Read more“Polchin knows the era, and brings to his account a wealth of colorful supporting detail . . . With its layers of taboos and public spectacle, the case feels, a century later, as relevant as ever.” —… [more below]
- Author: Polchin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1640096000
- Language: English
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His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest Flying Machine
$18.99 Add to cartFrom historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a “captivating, thoroughly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) tale of the rise and fall o… [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1982168307
- Language: English
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Gretel and the Great War
$18.00 Add to cartA New Yorker best book of 2024 One of Bloomberg‘s nine best books of summer 2024
“Inventive . . . Whimsical . . . Fusing period atmosphere with fairy tale, Ehrlich Sachs hints at modern themes while s- Author: Sachs, Adam Ehrlich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0374614245
- Language: English
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Kent State: An American Tragedy
$35.00 Add to cartOn May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taun
- Author: Vandemark, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066253
- Language: English
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
$34.00 Read more#1 New York Times Bestseller
NAACP Image Award Winner
From Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America’s struggle for fr
- Author: Reid, Joy-Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0063419181
- Language: English
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Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania
$29.95 Add to cartHow cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century, transforming cats from pests into beloved pets.
In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries bee
- Author: Hughes, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1421448149
- Language: English
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The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements That Changed the World
$35.00 Read moreA riveting retelling of diplomatic history with praise from Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bertie Ahern (Ireland), Tony Blair (UK), Ehud Olmert (Israel), and more.
“A magisterial tome on the internati- Author: Eizenstat, Stuart E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1538167999
- Language: English
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Florida Girls, A Novel: Book One of The Queenpin Chronicles
$19.99 Add to cartA war bond tour full of eager young women. A sunny town with a dark underbelly. When the Florida Girls start shooting back, will anyone survive?
St. Petersburg, Florida, 1944. Thelma Miles can’t stomac
- Series: The Queenpin Chronicles
- Author: Kirchner, L. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 9798985815245
- Language: English
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The Beach at Summerly
$18.99 Add to cart“There are few more skilled practitioners of the craft of summer fiction than Beatriz Williams.” — The New York Times Book Review
A ravishing summer read from New York Times bestseller Beatriz William
- Author: Williams, Beatriz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0063020858
- Language: English
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Born of Gilded Mountains
$18.99 Read moreScandal-plagued Hollywood star Mercy Windsor seeks refuge in the Colorado mining town where her childhood pen pal lived. To help a grieving friend, Mercy embarks with her on a search for a missing rai… [more below]
- Author: Dykes, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0764239511
- Language: English
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The CIA: An Imperial History
$35.00 Add to cartIn this “superb” (Kathryn Olmsted) new history of American intelligence, a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire
As World War II end- Author: Wilford, Hugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 154164591X
- Language: English
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The Forgetters: Stories
$20.00 Add to cartA tender, astonishing, and richly beautiful story cycle about remembering our shared histories and repairing the world.
“Each tale is a testament to never forgetting that the mountains, the sea, the ri
- Author: Sarris, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146307
- Language: English
