20th Century
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The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
$21.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History and the 2025 Mark Lynton History Prize. Named one of the Best Books of 2024 by The New Yorker, NPR and BookPage.
“Michael Waters performs- Author: Waters, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390478
- Language: English
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World Pacific
$27.99 Add to cartA darkly comic novel of intrigue, adventure, and the perils of self-invention from the author of The Torqued Man, set in San Francisco and the Asian Pacific during the outbreak of the Second World War
- Author: Mann, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0063375346
- Language: English
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The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
$32.00 Add to cartA sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever–and anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nation–from the bestselling author of Ladies and G… [more below]
- Author: Mahler, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 052551063X
- Language: English
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Black Soldiers, White Laws: The Tragedy of the 24th Infantry in 1917 Houston
$30.00 Add to cartThe first full and definitive narrative of one of the most shocking and largely unknown events of racial injustice in US history: the execution of nineteen Black soldiers in Texas
On the sweltering, ra
- Author: Haymond, John A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0802164757
- Language: English
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Buckeye
$30.00 Add to cart“A small-town novel of epic proportions” (Tom Perrotta), this captivating story weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0593595033
- Language: English
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Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949
$24.00 Add to cart“A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill.”–Sunday Telegraph
From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem In this bri- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: August 31 2004
- ISBN10: 0142437921
- Language: English
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The Imperial Presidency
$29.99 Add to cartFrom two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., comes one of the most important and influential investigations of the American presidency. The Imperial Presidency traces the
- Author: Schlesinger, Arthur M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 589
- Publish Date: March 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0618420010
- Language: English
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The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
$19.99 Add to cartBooks about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us abou… [more below]
- Author: Geroulanos, Stefanos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096128
- Language: English
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Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
$29.99 Add to cartThe riveting hidden history of Claire McCardell, the most influential fashion designer you’ve never heard of.
Claire McCardell forever changed fashion–and most importantly, the lives of women. She s- Author: Dickinson, Elizabeth Evitts
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1668045230
- Language: English
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The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III: A Novel, Volume 3
$28.95 Add to cartA major literary event, the publication of the final volume of Peter Weiss’s three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature avai… [more below]
- Author: Weiss, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1478031182
- Language: English
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The Dark Library
$32.99 Add to cart“A fascinating and intelligent WWII home front story.” –Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling author for The Physicists’ Daughter
Can a family’s dark history repeat itself?
Estella Ecker has returned
- Author: Evans, Mary Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1464238960
- Language: English
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The White Sniper: Simo H?yh?
$19.95 Read more“Anyone who wants to learn more about sniping needs this book in their library.” — Infantry Magazine
Simo H?yh? (1905 – 2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought betwe… [more below]
- Author: Saarelainen, Tapio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1612008550
- Language: English
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All Quiet on the Western Front
$26.99 Add to cartAn immediate sensation when it was published in 1929, Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide since then, making it the best-selling Ge
- Author: Remarque, Erich Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1324006935
- Language: English
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Diva
$19.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world.
In the- Author: Goodwin, Daisy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 125083399X
- Language: English
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Moments of Reprieve: A Memoir of Auschwitz
$17.00 Add to cart“He is our Dante . . . writing a modern masterpiece about his journey into Hell . . . that is] unique in the literature of the Holocaust.” —USA Today
A Penguin Classic
Primo Levi was one of the most- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Levi, Primo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140188959
- Language: English
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The Atavist: The Color of Love
$19.99 Add to cart10-year-old John Wayne Lundy swings a pine knot instinctively at his tyrannical stepfather and knocks him into the flooding Edisto River, where he washes limply into the forks of a fallen tree. His yo
- Author: Owens, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Darkenbloom
$19.00 Add to cartA panoramic novel of European history, by an internationally bestselling writer.
The whole truth, as the name implies, is the collective knowledge of all those involved. Which is why you can never rea
- Author: Menasse, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1964992044
- Language: English
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Letter from Birmingham Jail
$22.99 Add to cartA beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s essay “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.
With an afterword by Reginald Dway
- Series: Essential Speeches of Dr. Martin Lut
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063425815
- Language: English
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Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
$29.99 Add to cartThe interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, and Jinn summoners all set out to assure the masses that just as newly discovered
- Author: Cormack, Raphael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0393881105
- Language: English
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The Evening Shades
$20.99 Add to cartThe highly anticipated follow-up to Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever, The Evening Shades tells the story of two lonely people in a small Midwestern town and the dark secrets tormenting them … [more below]
- Author: Martin, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 168589173X
- Language: English
