20th Century
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Protesting with Rosa Parks: From Stagecoaches to Driving While Black
$34.95 Add to cartProtesting with Rosa Parks details the history of the intersections between Black activism and travel over a span of one hundred and ninety years. John K. Bollard recounts the experiences of more than… [more below]
- Author: Bollard, John K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1588385523
- Language: English
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Whirlwind: My Life Reporting the News
$32.99 Add to cartStarting with his coverage of the largest tornado in Kansas history, legendary correspondent, anchorman, and producer Bill Kurtis details his whirlwind career reporting American history as it unfolded
- Author: Kurtis, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0700640045
- Language: English
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Call of the Camino
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of In an Instant comes a deeply moving novel following the transformative journeys of two women walking entwined paths on a legendary route across Europe a generation apart
- Author: Redfearn, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 331
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 166253020X
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia’s Short-Lived Victory Over Totalitarianism
$32.00 Add to cartFrom “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced” (The New York Times) reporters comes a gripping and urgent exploration of why the Soviet Union’s collapse was incomplete and the Cold War was never ove… [more below]
- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668013908
- Language: English
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Diamonds in Auschwitz
$19.95 Add to cartA poignant novel of love, survival, and how brightly hope can shine against the backdrop of unimaginable darkness
Rachael is a resilient Jewish woman imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II, clingi
- Author: Hamand, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1632999161
- Language: English
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Baseball in the Roaring Twenties: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and the Captivating 1926 Season
$36.95 Add to cartIn the mid-1920s, America was in the throes of exuberant excess and clashing social change. It was the era of Prohibition and speakeasies; the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan; popular evangelists, inc… [more below]
- Author: Wolf, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496235789
- Language: English
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No Secrets Among Sisters
$21.99 Add to cartOnce at the top of her field, investigative reporter Amelia Collins has been struggling with the loss of her father. When her story exposing political corruption at the highest level is shelved, her t… [more below]
- Author: Terrill, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: July 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1038341450
- Language: English
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Christina the Astonishing
$16.95 Add to cartCHRISTINA FALCONE IS A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD EIGHTH GRADER at Precious Blood Junior High. She is growing up pazza according to her Italian immigrant mother, Rita, who curses a country that poisons childr
- Author: Leone, Marianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1636142737
- Language: English
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America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II): From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom
$16.99 Add to cartRespected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the second volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II). This engaging narrative slices through the cobwebs of time, mem
- Author: Bennett, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: April 06 2008
- ISBN10: 1595550879
- Language: English
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The Wanderers
$21.95 Add to cartAcross countries and decades, The Wanderers weaves a captivating tapestry of human lives, exploring the enduring-and sometimes contradictory–duties of blood and country.
Ruru’s father, a South African… [more below]
- Author: Ntabeni, Mphuthumi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 196080314X
- Language: English
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In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution
$31.00 Add to cartFrom acclaimed historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes a captivating new biography of Teddy Roosevelt, exploring the life of America… [more below]
- Author: Brown, David S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1668204193
- Language: English
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The Swimmer of Auschwitz: The Incredible True Story of the Olympic Hero Who Swam for His Life
$14.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of Olympian who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and survived to tell his story.
“Sports writer Leblond revisits in his propulsive English-language debut the life of Alfred Nakache- Author: Leblond, Renaud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1800962967
- Language: English
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Along Lake Michigan: Shipwreck Stories of Life and Loss
$24.95 Add to cartNotable shipwrecks of Lake Michigan throughout a century of enterprise, industry, heroism, and disaster on the Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are graveyards of a vast number of shipwrecks (30,000 by some
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1517916771
- Language: English
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Lake Song: A Novel in Stories
$22.95 Add to cartSelected by Deesha Philyaw as winner of the AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction
The linked stories of Lake Song, set in the fictional town of Kinder Falls in New York’s Finger Lakes region, span d- Series: Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction
- Author: Bannatyne, Lesley Pratt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0814259545
- Language: English
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Pre-Code Essentials: Must-See Cinema from Hollywood’s Untamed Era, 1930-1934
$25.99 Add to cartFrom Turner Classic Movies and the creators of @precodedotcom, this is the essential film-by-film guide to must-see cinema from the pre-Code era–a wild and wonderful time in Hollywood history before … [more below]
- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Luperi, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798894140551
- Language: English
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The Spy Wore Long White Gloves
$21.99 Add to cartBook 4 of the American Spy Sisters – Inspired by the brave U.S. women secret agents working for Britain’s intelligence agencies during WW II. Lacy Farrington Forbes never wanted the life of a debutant… [more below]
- Series: American Spy Sisters #4
- Author: Ware, Ciji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 470
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1648399223
- Language: English
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Crash of the Heavens: The Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh and the Only Military Mission to Rescue Europe’s Jews During World War II
$30.00 Add to cartThe awe-inspiring and largely untold story of Hannah Senesh, a female paratrooper in World War II whose courage and sacrifice during a daring mission to rescue Europe’s Jews left an indelible mark on … [more below]
- Author: Century, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668035278
- Language: English
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The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature
$35.00 Add to cartA delightful and majestic reckoning with the ascent of American fiction in the twentieth century through the prism of the under-known man who had an astonishing amount to do with it
Malcolm Cowley is- Author: Howard, Gerald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0525522050
- Language: English
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November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II
$23.00 Add to cartThe New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, completely based on the diaries, letters and memoirs of the people who lived through i… [more below]
- Author: Englund, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0525434933
- Language: English
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A Pair of Wings
$18.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 125034722X
- Language: English
