20th Century
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Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood
$20.00 Add to cartLogavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious tole… [more below]
- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0812982762
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Ghost: Houdini’s War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American Presidency
$31.00 Add to cartThe incredible untold story of how the world’s greatest magician, Harry Houdini, waged war upon Spiritualism, uncovering unknown magic, political conspiracies, and surprising secrets along the way.
You- Author: Ricca, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1250338905
- Language: English
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Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartThe untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war
At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence ag
- Author: Graham, Elyse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 006328085X
- Language: English
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Blowback: The Untold Story of the FBI and the Oklahoma City Bombing
$30.00 Add to cartAn investigative journalist reopens the unsolved mystery of John Doe 2, the Oklahoma City bombing suspect who evaded a global FBI manhunt.
What if everything we know about one of America’s darkest day- Author: Roberts, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888458426
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker: A Novel of World War II
$30.00 Add to cartResistance fighters Charlotte and Philippe, an American woman and a Frenchman, brave death or worse to evade the Gestapo and get critical information to the Allies.
Resistance operative Charlotte Denn- Author: Young, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798895651247
- Language: English
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El Diario de Anne Frank (Novela Gr?fica) / Anne Frank’s Dairy: The Graphic Adaptation
$26.95 Add to cart“12 de junio de 1942. Espero poder confi?rtelo todo como a?n no lo he podido hacer con nadie, y espero que seas para m? un gran apoyo”.
Tras la invasi?n de Holanda, la familia Frank se ocult? de la Ge… [more below]- Author: Frank, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0525564500
- Language: Spanish
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Clout City: The Rise and Fall of the Chicago Political Machine
$32.50 Add to cartUnearths the religious and cultural roots of a powerful political machine that empowered some everyday Chicagoans but ruled all of the city for decades.
In politics, clout is essential. Too often, it
- Author: Pacyga, Dominic a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 022673370X
- Language: English
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The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany–And the Spy Who Betrayed Them
$32.00 Add to cart“An astonishing true story of courage, love, and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master at weaving spellbinding entertainments drawn from forgotten corners of history.”–Mi
- Author: Freedland, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063373203
- Language: English
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The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America
$35.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the captivating secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions o… [more below]
- Author: Witt, John Fabian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1476765871
- Language: English
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Glorious Ruins
$16.99 Add to cartPower, love, fame, and catastrophic greed collide in a sweeping historical novel about 1920s Paris based on the enduring friendship between Coco Chanel and world-famous muse Misia Sert.
In 1920s Paris,
- Author: Little, Judithe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1662528124
- Language: English
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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President
$20.99 Add to cartAn “elegant and illuminating” (Jon Meacham) family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life, especially his mother, sisters, and … [more below]
- Author: O’Keefe, Edward F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1982145706
- Language: English
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Jorge Luis Borges: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine mythology, mysticism, phil… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0197761380
- Language: English
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Ghost Wedding
$28.00 Add to cartA POIGNANT STORY OF LOVE AND REGRET, FROM A MASTER OF CONTEMPORARY IRISH FICTION
* ‘David Park is one of Ireland’s great novelists.’ Roddy Doyle, author of The Commitments * For fans of Sebastian Faul- Author: Park, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0861549740
- Language: English
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The Guest Children
$29.99 Add to cartThe search for two missing children goes terribly wrong in this haunting and insidiously creepy ghost story debut by acclaimed showrunner Patrick Tarr.
With terror mounting in 1940 London, thousands o- Author: Tarr, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9798892422987
- Language: English
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Seeds of the Pomegranate
$22.00 Add to cartIn early 20th-century Sicily, Mimi Inglese, a talented painter, aspires to defy societal norms by attending the Palermo Art Academy. But when she contracts tuberculosis, her dreams come to an end. She
- Author: Samuels, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 381
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1960573446
- Language: English
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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
$37.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern times. This gr… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217157686
- Language: English
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
$18.00 Add to cartOne of the most important economic documents of the 20th century
John Maynard Keynes, at the time a rising young economist, abruptly resigned his position as adviser to the British delegation negotiat- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Keynes, John Maynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140188053
- Language: English
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Murder in Old Forge, Pennsylvania: The Tragic Death of the Ziemba Children
$24.99 Add to cartOn July 26, 1981, eight-year-old Cheryl Ziemba and her four-year-old brother, Christopher, disappeared from their backyard in Old Forge, Pennsylvania.
Within hours, hundreds of neighbors, police and f
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Kincaid, Brian W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1467157155
- Language: English
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The Kaboom Boys
$18.99 Add to cartA historical saga of courage, sacrifice, and the unbreakable bonds of friendship.
“…a true WW2 adventure…” –Nicholas Griffin, author of The Year of Dangerous Days
With the specter of the Great Dep
- Series: A Call to War #1
- Author: Keith, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1648756433
- Language: English
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Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur
$32.50 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman turns his sharp eye and meticulous storytelling to one of pop culture’s most enduring and enigmatic figures–Tupac Shakur–presenting the definitive ret
- Author: Pearlman, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0063304570
- Language: English
