20th Century
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Division Street: America
$35.00 Add to cartGreat British Bake Off finalist Ruby Bhogal is here to delight us with a flexible approach to baking tasty, sweet treats that give you double helpings of temptation. She brings us 50 like-for-like rec… [more below]
- Author: Bhogal, Ruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1623716799
- Language: English
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Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
$16.00 Read moreA “masterful” (Houston Post) collection of stories from Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro
“A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace, and surprise . . . [Munro] is a writer of enormous … [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Munro, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0375707484
- Language: English
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The Golden Doves
$20.00 Add to cartTwo female spies risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi in this sweeping, profound tale of bravery from the bestselling author of Lilac Girls.
“A riveting story of two brave and amazing women … [more below]- Author: Kelly, Martha Hall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593354907
- Language: English
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Columbine 25th Anniversary Memorial Edition
$21.99 Add to cartWhat really happened on April 20, 1999? The horror of the Columbine school shooting left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. In remembrance of the 25th anniversary comes a new edition of this j… [more below]
- Author: Cullen, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1538766841
- Language: English
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Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization
$32.00 Add to cartFrom Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O’Reilly’s Killing series–with more than 12 million copies sold–comes a soaring account of England’s desperate fight to fend off Ge… [more below]
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0593473213
- Language: English
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Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation
$34.00 Add to cartThe pivotal true story of the first fifty-three days of the standoff between Imperial Japanese and a handful of Marine aviators defending the Americans dug in at Guadalcanal, from the New York Times b… [more below]
- Author: Bruning, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0316508659
- Language: English
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Here Today: Oklahoma’s Ghost Towns, Vanishing Towns, and Towns Persisting Against the Odds
$24.95 Add to cartThe history of Oklahoma runs through the thousands of towns that sprang up in the wake of statehood and even before then–readable in the traces of bygone days, if you know what to look for. In Here T… [more below]
- Author: Schmidt, Jeffrey B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0806193727
- Language: English
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My Father’s House
$18.95 Add to cartFrom inside the Vatican, Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty makes a daring attempt to smuggle thousands of innocents out of Nazi-occupied Rome in this World War II “literary thriller of the highest order” (The
- Series: Rome Escape Line Trilogy #1
- Author: O’Connor, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889660163
- Language: English
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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction
$25.00 Add to cartNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Asw… [more below]
- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0525509488
- Language: English
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When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
$32.50 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Absolutely gripping.” —The Washington Post – “A masterpiece of oral history…stirring, surprising, grim, joyous, moving, and always riveting.” –Evan Thomas
From the N- Author: Graff, Garrett M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 166802781X
- Language: English
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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
$30.00 Add to cartONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST‘S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024
Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Nati
One of The New York Times‘s 100 Notable Books of 2024- Author: Ganz, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0374605440
- Language: English
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Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World
$33.00 Add to cart**One of Foreign Affairs‘s Best Books of 2024**
From Franklin Roosevelt’s final days through Harry Truman’s extraordinary transformation, this is the enthralling story behind the most consequential pr- Author: Roll, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593186443
- Language: English
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Every Time We Say Goodbye
$29.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls returns with a brilliant novel of love and art, of grief and memory, of confronting the past and facing the future.
In 1955, Vivie- Author: Jenner, Natalie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1250285186
- Language: English
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Patton’s Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II
$32.00 Add to cartFrom Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of courage, resilience, and faith during the Second World War
General George Patton needed a miracle.- Author: Kershaw, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0593183770
- Language: English
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
$35.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction – Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize – Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction – A New Y… [more below]
- Author: Higginbotham, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 198217661X
- Language: English
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Last House
$28.00 Add to cart“A richly detailed, slow-burning family saga distinguished by incisive psychological insight and masterful research. . . Shattuck is such a good writer, giving us swaths of cultural and historical bac
- Author: Shattuck, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0062979892
- Language: English
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The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author comes the story of rising conflict between the super-powers that gripped the world, a global war that almost happened: The Cuban Missile Crisis.
In 1961, the new president J- Author: Shaara, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1250279968
- Language: English
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This Strange Eventful History
$29.99 Add to cartOver seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state–separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian ind
- Author: Messud, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 039363504X
- Language: English
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Some Murders in Berlin: A WWII Historical Fiction Novel
$28.99 Add to cartThis pulse-pounding, brilliantly twisting new historical thriller is a gripping tale that will leave you questioning everything.
September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness–and the last place Dr. … [more below]
- Author: Robards, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0778305511
- Language: English
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The Garden of Lost Secrets
$9.99 Add to cartFrom an award-winning author, two sisters discover the fairy tales written by their great-grandmother during WWII in this riveting tale of one woman’s secrets lost in the chaos of war–perfect for fan… [more below]
- Author: Bowen, Kelly
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1538722151
- Language: English
