20th Century
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New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
$21.99 Add to cartThe images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, and Charles Lindbergh to the fight for women’s… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0306813793
- Language: English
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A Murder in Paris
$30.00 Add to cartAn expert in memory must uncover the truth about her family’s wartime past in this dazzling psychological thriller from the #1 international bestselling author of Anna O.
Olivia Finn is a memory expert
- Author: Blake, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0063314193
- Language: English
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The Silence and the Rage
$30.00 Add to cartFrom “a novelist at the height of his powers,” a dramatic and jubilant dive into France in the “glorious years” of the 1950s, through the lens of one ambitious, troubled, and utterly compelling family… [more below]
- Author: Lemaitre, Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0316576158
- Language: English
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One Fine Day
$17.99 Add to cartIt’s a summer’s day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something, some quality of life, has ev
- Series: Herald Classics
- Author: Panter-Downes, Mollie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1454959541
- Language: English
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The Secret Librarian
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Secret Midwife and The Berlin Sisters comes an inspiring story of friendship, hope and courage.
New York, 1942: Avery is engaged to be married. Longing for adventure
- Author: Lane, Soraya M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 15 2025
- ISBN10: 166252319X
- Language: English
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Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel
$18.00 Add to cart“This hotel of dreams is not the one in history; it’s within Edmund White, a heartbreak hotel where, in a dreamlike fugue of styles, gay life past and present commingle in the streets of a lost New Yo
- Author: White, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 14 2008
- ISBN10: 0060852267
- Language: English
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Last House
$18.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0062979906
- Language: English
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In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig
$34.95 Add to cartA refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.
In the Future of Yesterday delves into Stefan Zweig’s considerable contribution to world literature, rooted in the Austro-Je- Author: Görner, Rüdiger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1914979109
- Language: English
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Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc
$16.99 Add to cart“Was she a saint or a witch? A visionary or a madwoman? Or an extraordinary peasant girl who, at God’s bidding, led an army, saved France, and paid the price by burning alive? . . . Kimberly Cutter’s
- Author: Cutter, Kimberly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 054784493X
- Language: English
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What Happened to Millennials: In Defense of a Generation
$28.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning journalist, a reflective, smart, and deeply reported look at the millennial generation that draws on the experiences of five diverse individuals and explores where we go from her… [more below]
- Author: Wells, Charlie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1419770810
- Language: English
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Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartThe authors of this striking memoir, Hiding in Holland, survivor Max Rothschild and his daughter Shulamit Reinharz, tell the story of a Jewish man who saved his life repeatedly during the Holocaust, e
- Series: Holocaust Survivor True Stories
- Author: Reinharz, Shulamit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: June 17 2024
- ISBN10: 949332270X
- Language: English
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A Bitter Wind
$28.95 Add to cartTo solve a murder at an English airbase, US Army Captain Billy Boyle must immerse himself in the fascinating and secretive world of WWII radio espionage.
Christmas Day 1944: After his last mission put- Series: Billy Boyle WWII Mystery
- Author: Benn, James R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1641296461
- Language: English
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The Hidden Life of Otto Frank
$17.99 Add to cartIn this definitive new biography, Carol Ann Lee provides the answer to one of the most heartbreaking questions of modern times: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis? Probing this startl
- Author: Lee, Carol Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 23 2003
- ISBN10: 0060520833
- Language: English
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A Dark and Deadly Journey: An Evelyne Redfern Mystery
$28.00 Add to cartEvelyne Redfern returns in A Dark and Deadly Journey, the next book in international bestselling author Julia Kelly’s captivating historical mystery series.
After being sidelined for a pesky gunshot- Series: Evelyne Redfern #3
- Author: Kelly, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1250865549
- Language: English
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In the Seasons of War
$16.99 Add to cartThe summer before World War II, Saoirse and Aiden meet, fall in love, and have a whirlwind romance. As they begin to prepare for their future together, their dreams are suddenly put on hold, when Germ
- Author: Sandness, Aubrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218536473
- Language: English
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Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
$24.00 Add to cartA searing history of life under Jim Crow that recalls the bloodiest and most repressive period in the history of race relations in the United States–and the painful record of discrimination that haun… [more below]
- Author: Litwack, Leon F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: July 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0375702636
- Language: English
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Division Street: America
$21.99 Add to cartA landmark reissue of Studs Terkel’s classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-creator of the Division Street Revisited podcast
“Remarkable. . . … [more below]- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1620979136
- Language: English
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In Defense of Partisanship
$18.00 Add to cart“Contravening conventional wisdom, Zelizer offers a spirited defense of parties and partisanship.” –Frances Lee, Princeton University
Partisanship is a dirty word in American politics. If there is on- Author: Zelizer, Julian E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798987053683
- Language: English
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The Burning Heart of the World
$17.95 Add to cartAUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLER, ZABELLE – AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEWED, ALL THE LIGHT THERE WAS – In vivid, poetic prose, Nancy Kricorian’s The Burning Heart of the World tells the story of a Beiru
- Author: Kricorian, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1636281931
- Language: English
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On the Trail of the Assassins: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Murder of President Kennedy
$14.95 Read moreThe New York Times Bestseller. about the search for the assassins of JFK. “Garrison’s book presents the most powerful detailed case yet made that President Kennedy’s assassination was the product of a… [more below]
- Author: Garrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 1620872994
- Language: English
