20th Century
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Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
$27.99 Add to cartSylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination–the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential liter
- Author: Van Duyne, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324006978
- Language: English
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The Ballad of Roy Benavidez: The Life and Times of America’s Most Famous Hispanic War Hero
$35.00 Add to cartThe dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history, from “a major new voice [with] lyrical powers as a biographer” (David W. Blight, Puli… [more below]
- Author: Sturkey, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1541600266
- Language: English
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Blok 42
$17.99 Add to cartFinalist for Best New Fiction at the American Fiction Awards 2024
Aniela Majewska, beautiful daughter of one of Krak?w’s most respected families, is ready to marry her dashing childhood sweetheart, He
- Author: Obara, Debrianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: March 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1800166354
- Language: English
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Our Narrow Hiding Places
$30.00 Add to cartAn elderly woman recounts her Dutch family’s survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations.
Eighty-year-old Mieke Ge
- Author: Jansma, Kristopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063352893
- Language: English
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The Great Reclamation
$18.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE AND THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, TOWN & COUNTRY, KIRKUS, ELECTRIC- Author: Heng, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0593420128
- Language: English
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Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History
$35.00 Add to cartIn this “forensic, unflinching, devastating work of historical recovery” (Sathnam Sanghera), Bud Dajo–an American atrocity bigger than Wounded Knee or My Lai, yet today largely forgotten–is revealed… [more below]
- Author: Wagner, Kim A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1541701496
- Language: English
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Codename Nemo: The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and the Elusive Enigma Machine
$32.99 Add to cartThe white-knuckled saga of the US Navy task force that captured Nazi submarine U-505 and the Enigma machine.
Two days before D-Day–the course of World War II was forever changed. The German hunters o- Author: Lachman, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1635768713
- Language: English
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Tomorrow Is for the Brave
$18.99 Add to cartBased on true events, Tomorrow Is for the Brave is a gripping World War II page-turner about a courageous woman who risks it all for what is right–perfect for fans of Natasha Lester and Kristen Harme… [more below]
- Author: Bowen, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1538756935
- Language: English
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The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
$30.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Goodreads Choice Award Winner in History & Biography One of Time‘s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 “A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail- Author: Friss, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593299922
- Language: English
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Prevailing Wind
$39.99 Add to cartIt is 1913, and the plutocrats of the New York Yacht Club have amassed more power and wealth than the US Treasury itself.
Davey and Jacob Haskell, brothers from a poor lobster fishing community in Mai
- Author: Dolby, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1665758333
- Language: English
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Street Fight: The Chicago Taxi Wars of the 1920s
$29.95 Add to cartBricks and bottles of acid through the windshield. Bullets shot from the running boards of racing cabs, passengers screaming in the backseat. Bombs exploding in garages, beneath parked cars, on the fr
- Author: Morrissy, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1493068679
- Language: English
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An Ocean of Courage and Fear
$26.99 Read moreBased on survivor accounts, this gripping novel opens days after the attack on Pearl Harbor and details three years of sea battles that spanned between Hawaii and the shores of Okinawa with the crew o… [more below]
- Author: Borrowman, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1639932364
- Language: English
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U.S.A.: The Complete Trilogy [The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and the Big Money]
$30.00 Add to cartThis gorgeous new paperback edition collects the three volumes of John Dos Passos’s acclaimed U.S.A. trilogy, named one of the best books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, and a “linguis
- Series: U.S.A. Trilogy
- Author: Dos Passos, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0063351536
- Language: English
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Burma ’44: The Battle That Turned World War II in the East
$30.00 Add to cartCelebrated historian of World War II James Holland chronicles the astonishing Allied victory at the Battle of the Admin Box in Burma (now Myanmar), a turning point of the war in the Far East
In Februar
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0802160581
- Language: English
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The Future Was Color
$26.00 Read moreA dazzling novel about the inextricable link between the personal and the political set against the decadence of Hollywood and postwar Los Angeles
As a Hungarian immigrant working as a studio hack wri- Author: Nathan, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1640096248
- Language: English
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Led Zeppelin: The Biography
$22.00 Add to cart“In this authoritative, unsparing history of the biggest rock group of the 1970s, Spitz delivers inside details and analysis with his well-known gift for storytelling.” —PEOPLE
From the author of the … [more below]- Author: Spitz, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0399562443
- Language: English
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A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture
$30.00 Add to cartA “riveting” and “indispensable” (Alison Bechdel) cultural history of queer women’s lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six iconic spaces
For as long as queer women have e- Author: Thomas, June
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1541601742
- Language: English
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Fire Music
$24.95 Add to cartAntal Varga, a Budapest violinist, is 78 years old when a young American stranger places a yellowed music sheet into his hands. With shock he recognizes his own teenage handwriting, for he himself wro… [more below]
- Author: Connally, Connie Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 422
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1684921597
- Language: English
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Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century
$26.99 Add to cartGeorge Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between t
- Author: Beers, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324075082
- Language: English
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Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dramatic novel, based on the woman glamorized in The Sound of Music, brings Maria t… [more below]
- Author: Moran, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0593499484
- Language: English
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