20th Century
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A Treacherous Secret Agent: How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare
$30.00 Read moreA world-renowned critic’s haunting and deeply researched account of the subversive acts of literary revenge performed during the Red Scare hearings of the 1950s
In the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, the House
- Author: Garber, Marjorie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0300282826
- Language: English
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I’ll Come to You
$17.95 Add to cartWith empathy, insight, and humor, I’ll Come to You chronicles the intersecting lives of one unforgettable family over the course of a year–1995–anchored by the anticipation and arrival of a child in… [more below]
- Author: Kauffman, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 164009735X
- Language: English
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Hold on to Tomorrow
$29.99 Read moreA young woman fights to follow her dreams at the start of the 1960s in this gripping, moving, and empowering read.
November 22, 1963. As Jolene Johnson prepares to watch President John F. Kennedy’s pa- Author: Henry, M. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1448321093
- Language: English
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A Map to Paradise
$19.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0593332873
- Language: English
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The Ghosts of Rome
$18.95 Add to cartA New York Times Editors’ Choice・Book Riot Best Book of 2025・Guardian Best Book of 2025・Irish Book of the Year 2025
★ “Mesmerising, tragic, horrifying, utterly unputdownable.
- Series: Rome Escape Line Trilogy #2
- Author: O’Connor, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889661696
- Language: English
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The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America’s Innovation Machine
$36.00 Read moreThe extraordinary true story of Lockheed Martin’s “Skunk Works”–the radical innovation hub that designed the greatest airplanes of the twentieth century–and the visionary who made it all possible
It- Author: Dean, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1524745510
- Language: English
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Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York
$32.00 Read moreHow the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.
Yuppies- Author: Gottlieb, Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 067424897X
- Language: English
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Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods
$35.00 Read moreAn incisive history of government and corporate failures to infuse capital into Black urban neighborhoods–as well as the organizers and activists who stood up to predatory financial practices.
In the- Author: Satter, Beryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 067427847X
- Language: English
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JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography
$20.99 Add to cart“Fascinating…the fullest portrait of Kennedy ever written.” —The Washington Post
The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate and detailed look at the real man beh- Author: Terenzio, Rosemarie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1668018527
- Language: English
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The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City
$30.00 Add to cartIn the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, and workp… [more below]
- Series: Penguin History of American Life
- Author: Barrett, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0143122800
- Language: English
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Dream Story (Translated, Annotated, & Illustrated)
$16.95 Add to cartThis new edition of Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler offers readers a new translation from the original German text and a comprehensive exploration of the acclaimed novella, originally published as Tr
- Author: Schnitzler, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: September 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9798349467868
- Language: English
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The Holocaust in American Life
$25.99 Add to cartPrize-winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long — how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization; how American Jews, not
- Author: Novick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0618082328
- Language: English
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The Director
$19.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR – AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A Washington Post NOTABLE BOOK
A Late Show with Stephen Colbert Book Club Pick “Nothing short of brilliant.” —The Wall St- Author: Kehlmann, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1668087804
- Language: English
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The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of The Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast
$18.95 Add to cartOn Aug. 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, R.I. The crooks fled with du… [more below]
- Author: Worcester, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1493009591
- Language: English
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Fatal Friendship: First Phase: From World War I to II
$19.99 Add to cartRising US capitalism presented itself to the world with freedom, democracy, and prosperity. However, the practices of America First-genocide, labor exploitation, and warlike plunder of foreign propert
- Author: Rügemer, Werner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 6054923897
- Language: English
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Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves
$34.00 Read moreA history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable.
“A tour de force … Read it now.” –Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Aboliti- Author: Schrader, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1541608038
- Language: English
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Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation’s Troubled Homecoming from World War II
$21.99 Add to cartOne of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called “Good War.” The Greatest Generation, we’re told by Tom Brokaw and others, fought heroically, then return… [more below]
- Author: Childers, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0547336926
- Language: English
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A Harlem Wedding
$19.99 Read more- Author: Warren, Tiffany L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 006332217X
- Language: English
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These Empty Places
$18.99 Read moreWhen their worlds are upended, two women brought together by their loss discover what truly matters most.
Claire Roth sacrificed love for a life of comfort on Lake Toxaway–until the dam broke, and th… [more below]- Author: Thomas, Sarah Loudin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0764245937
- Language: English
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Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II
$16.99 Add to cartA powerful multicultural history of Americans in World War II, from the acclaimed author of A Different Mirror.
A history of America in World War II is told through the lives of an ethnically divers- Author: Takaki, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0316831565
- Language: English
