20th Century
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Proud Sorrows
$18.95 Read more“Norfolk, England, November 1944: After a series of dangerous missions in the South of France, US Army Captain Billy Boyle is finally on leave, and is settling into a peaceful rest at the country esta… [more below]
- Series: Billy Boyle WWII Mystery
- Author: Benn, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1641295996
- Language: English
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Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, r
- Author: Adlington, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063375133
- Language: English
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Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
$32.00 Add to cartThe never-before-told story of the epic battle of wills between Andrew Mellon and Winston Churchill, as they debated the repayment of the enormous sums loaned by America to Great Britain during World … [more below]
- Author: Eicher, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639366423
- Language: English
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Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
$26.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, r
- Author: Adlington, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063375168
- Language: English
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James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. the Fire Next Time
$20.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1963, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America’s so-called “Negro problem.” As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 07 2024
- ISBN10: 3836596997
- Language: English
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Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal
$30.00 Add to cartTwo women in Nazi-occupied Paris created a daring escape line that rescued dozens of Allied servicemen. With one still in a German prison camp, the other wrote a book about it–a memoir built on fabri… [more below]
- Author: Goodman, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593358929
- Language: English
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The Girl Made of Stars
$17.99 Add to cartLola Grayson had it all.
In 1934, Lola was on top of the world. Dubbed “The Siren” by MGM, she was a prot?g? of Louis B. Mayer, the original talkie sex symbol before the rise of stars like Carole Lomba
- Author: Le Veque, K. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: January 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1963585933
- Language: English
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The Joyce of Everyday Life
$29.95 Add to cartPart of James Joyce’s genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, “a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it wa… [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Irish Writers
- Author: Mahaffey, Vicki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: September 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1684485266
- Language: English
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Footnote to History: From Hungary to America. The Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor
$19.95 Add to cartThe secret lay dormant for 50 years until Andrew Laszlo decided to share his past, the story of how his family perished in the Holocaust and only he survived. From his youth in Papa, Hungary, to his e
- Series: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs WWII
- Author: Laszlo, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9493322858
- Language: English
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The Partisan
$16.99 Add to cartA generational secret could change everything…
In war-torn Russia, love and espionage collide with devastating consequences.
Marina, widowed by the ruthless Third Reich, channels her grief into the f
- Series: Crimson Legacy #3
- Author: Warren, Susan May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1962036383
- Language: English
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The Second Sun
$29.00 Read moreA taut, suspenseful historical thriller set in the months of WWII: Did Japan also have an atomic weapon, and did America bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki to pre-empt an attack on its fleet?
A masterful hist- Author: Deutermann, P. T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1250360978
- Language: English
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A Map to Paradise
$29.00 Add to cart1956, Malibu, California: Something is not right on Paradise Circle.
With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next- Author: Meissner, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593332865
- Language: English
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We Dared to Fly: Dangerous Secret Missions During the Vietnam War
$32.95 Add to cartWe Dared to Fly is the true story of the young men who risked their lives daily on classified missions deep behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War. The Army aviators and enlisted observers assigned
- Author: Reeder, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1493085301
- Language: English
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Floreana
$28.99 Add to cartOn the Gal?pagos Islands, the lives of two women–a century apart–converge in the most startling ways in a historical novel of desperate love, secrets, and deception by the author of My Last Continen
- Author: Raymond, Midge
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 287
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1662524374
- Language: English
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Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
$30.00 Add to cartAn award-winning political scientist shows that a society’s path to prosperity, sustainability, and equality depends on who owns the land
For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege- Author: Albertus, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604814
- Language: English
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White Mulberry
$16.99 Add to cart“A beautiful and deeply researched novel…If you loved Pachinko, you’ll love White Mulberry.” –Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women
Inspired by the life of Easton’s
- Author: Easton, Rosa Kwon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 331
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1662519699
- Language: English
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The Last Fashion House in Paris
$18.99 Add to cartIn the heart of occupied WWII Paris, an elegant fashion house is the unlikely headquarters of a daring resistance network. Behind closed doors, courageous women vie to save loved ones and strangers al… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Renee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1335090436
- Language: English
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The Wonder and Complexity of the 1904 World’s Fair
$30.00 Add to cartSt. Louis scholars contribute essays on the untold stories of the 1904 World’s Fair.
The 1904 World’s Fair was a complex, fascinating event that continues to evoke a range of emotions. It was grand.- Author: The Missouri Historical Society Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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The Map of Bones
$27.99 Add to cart‘Mosse gives us both the satisfying intricacy of historical fact and a fictional narrative that carries us along at a rollicking pace. The long, rich, tragic history of the Huguenots deserved a series
- Series: Joubert Family Chronicles #4
- Author: Mosse, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1035042150
- Language: English
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The English Problem
$29.00 Add to cartIn this stunning debut novel, a young Indian man comes to England in 1931, determined to overthrow British rule back home–but the insidiousness of colonialism as well as a sexual awakening get in his… [more below]
- Author: Kamlani, Beena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593798465
- Language: English
