Chronological Period/1900-1919
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The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.
FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R)… [more below]- Author: Fox, Margalit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1984853856
- Language: English
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The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
$18.99 Add to cart“Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism.”
–David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of… [more below]- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0358118220
- Language: English
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Hurry Up, Houdini!
$6.99 Add to cartThe #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!
Abracadabra! Jack and Annie are on a mission for Merlin the magician. T- Series: Magic Tree House (R) Merlin Mission #22
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0307980480
- Language: English
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Stay Where You Are and Then Leave
$13.99 Add to cartThe next work of historical fiction from the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne’s Stay Where You Are and Then Leave is a touching look at the effects war has on a family.
The day the- Author: Boyne, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062861
- Language: English
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The Star That Always Stays
$17.99 Read moreWhen bright and spirited Norvia moves from the country to the city, she has to live by one new rule: Never let anyone know you’re Ojibwe.
Growing up on Beaver Island, Grand-p?e told Norvia stories–st- Author: Johnson, Anna Rose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0823450406
- Language: English
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The Invincible Miss Cust
$16.99 Add to cartSheReads Best Historical Fiction of 2022 Finalist!
“Inspiring, heartwarming, and ultimately triumphant.” –Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends
“What a remarkab
- Author: Haw, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1728257700
- Language: English
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Whisper in the Tempest: A Novel of the Great War
$22.99 Add to cartDecember, 1917: When an urgent matter forces Ginger and Noah Benson to sail from Malta on the HMT Aragon, the unthinkable strikes: the Aragon is torpedoed-and Ginger and Noah are separated in the chao
- Author: McCormack, Annabelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986529479
- Language: English
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All about Madam C. J. Walker
$7.99 Read moreMadam C. J. Walker was a self-made millionaire who was beloved within her community for her philanthropy, and respected as a first rate business person. She was America’s first female self-made millio… [more below]
- Series: All about
- Author: Bundles, A’Lelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1681570939
- Language: English
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The Sinking of the Titanic
$8.99 Add to cartTells the story of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. Written in graphic-novel format.
- Series: Graphic History
- Author: Doeden, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0736852476
- Language: English
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The Wolf Wilder
$19.99 Add to cartA girl and the wolves who love her embark on a rescue mission through Russian wilderness in this lyrical tale from the author of the acclaimed Rooftoppers and Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms.
Feo’s life- Author: Rundell, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1481419420
- Language: English
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The Old Leather Man: Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York Legend
$35.00 Read moreFascinating documentation of a mysterious figure
In 1883, wearing a sixty-pound suit sewn from leather boot-tops, a wanderer known only as the Leather Man began to walk a 365 mile loop between the Conn
- Series: Garnet Books
- Author: DeLuca, Dan W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0819568627
- Language: English
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The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBy the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known.
This Very Short Introduction provides a concise- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Howard, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0199205590
- Language: English
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Before She Was Harriet
$8.99 Add to cartAn evocative poem and stunning watercolors come together to honor an American heroine in a Coretta Scott King Honor and Christopher Award-winning picture book.
We know her today as Harriet Tubman, bu- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0823444295
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
$14.95 Add to cartWilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered th… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Owen, Wilfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 17 1965
- ISBN10: 0811201325
- Language: English
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire
$18.95 Add to cartIn this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918–which inspired events that forever changed the European continent–here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and ris… [more below]
- Author: Hoyer, Katja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362975
- Language: English
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November’s Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
$16.95 Add to cartOn Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings be
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 081668720X
- Language: English
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Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
$8.99 Read moreElizabeth Cady Stanton stood up and fought for what she believed in. From an early age, she knew that women were not given rights equal to men. But rather than accept her lesser status, Elizabeth went
- Author: Stone, Tanya Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0312602367
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
$9.99 Read moreBooker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation’s most prominent Black educator and first presiden… [more below]
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Washington, Booker T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1454949996
- Language: English
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Lucy Fights the Flames: A Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Survival Story
$27.99 Read moreIn 1911, fourteen-year-old Lucy Morelli lives with her parents, older brother, and several youngers siblings in a crowded apartment in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Lucy dreams … [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Gilbert, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496583868
- Language: English
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For Spacious Skies: Katharine Lee Bates and the Inspiration for America the Beautiful
$16.99 Read moreA Mighty Girl’s 2020 Books of the Year
The true story of the unconventional woman and her enduring song about the spirit of America. Katharine Lee Bates first wrote the lines to “America the Beautiful- Series: She Made History
- Author: Churnin, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0807525308
- Language: English
