Chronological Period/1900-1919
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Emily of Deep Valley: A Deep Valley Book
$17.99 Add to cart“I never grow tired of cheering for Emily, and neither will a new generation of readers.”–Mitali Perkins, author of You Bring the Distant Near, finalist for the National Book Award
This standalone nov
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lovelace, Maud Hart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0062003305
- Language: English
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The 42nd Parallel
$18.99 Add to cartThe first in John Dos Passos’s acclaimed USA trilogy–a “linguistically adventurous national portrait for a precarious age–his, and ours” (The New Yorker).
John Dos Passos’s USA trilogy (comprising T… [more below]
- Series: U.S.A. Trilogy #1
- Author: Dos Passos, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0618056815
- Language: English
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Who Was Annie Oakley?
$6.99 Add to cartYou want girl power? Meet Annie Oakley Born in 1860, she became one of the best-loved and most famous women of her generation. She amazed audiences all over the world with her sharpshooting, horse-ri… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Spinner, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 18 2002
- ISBN10: 0448424975
- Language: English
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Einstein: The Fantastic Journey of a Mouse Through Space and Time
$22.00 Add to cartTime is relative! Award-winning illustrator Torben Kuhlmann’s brilliant new book bends time and imagination.
Bank Street 2022 Best Children’s Books of the Year list
September/October Indie Next Kids P- Series: Mouse Adventures
- Author: Kuhlmann, Torben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0735844445
- Language: English
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A Soldier of the Great War
$24.99 Add to cartFrom acclaimed, award-winning novelist Mark Helprin, a lush and literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war.
Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idylli… [more below]
- Author: Helprin, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0156031132
- Language: English
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The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
$21.99 Read more“Before the Greatest Generation, there was the Forgotten Generation of World War I . . . wonderfully engaging.” – KirkusReviews, starred review
“Richard Rubin has done something that w- Author: Rubin, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0544290488
- Language: English
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In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1908 easterners Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed accepted appointments as field matrons in Karuk tribal communities in the Klamath and Salmon River country of northern California. In doing so, t
- Author: Arnold, Mary Ellicott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: December 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803236379
- Language: English
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Mrs Dalloway
$15.99 Add to cartVirginia Woolf’s singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify exi
- Series: Wordsworth Collector’s Editions
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1840221968
- Language: English
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The Sun Also Rises
$9.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s first novel is considered by some scholars to be his greatest work, following American and British expats in the 1920s as they travel from Paris to Pamplona to watch the running of … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 12 2022
- ISBN10: 048684854X
- Language: English
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A Long Long Way
$18.00 Read moreA powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war from “master storyteller” (Wall Street Journal) Sebastian Barry, author of Old God’s Time
In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen y… [more below]- Author: Barry, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 08 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035096
- Language: English
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Nothing but the Dirt: Stories from an American Farm Town
$24.99 Add to cartIn this work of creative nonfiction, author Kate Benz provides an intimate look at the present-day residents of Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on agri
- Author: Benz, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0700633456
- Language: English
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All the Ways We Said Goodbye: A Novel of the Ritz Paris
$16.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of t
- Author: Williams, Beatriz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0062931105
- Language: English
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Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War.
$47.99 Read moreA new theory on how World War I started–not with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but rather 10 years earlier, by power-hungry men whose lies have infiltrated history
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- Author: Docherty, Gerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1780576307
- Language: English
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Betsy-Tacy
$9.99 Add to cartBest Friends Forever
There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy’s age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl sh
- Series: Betsy-Tacy #1
- Author: Lovelace, Maud Hart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 14 2007
- ISBN10: 0064400964
- Language: English
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A Parchment of Leaves
$17.95 Add to cartIn 1900s Kentucky, Saul Sullivan leaves his bride behind to seek work, and his brother steps in, with violent consequences.
- Author: House, Silas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1949467252
- Language: English
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First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers
$5.99 Add to cartThis Level Four I Can Read book is a perfect bridge to chapter books for elementary-grade kids–and it introduces the thrilling story of the Wright Brothers, flight pioneers.
When Tom Tate hears that
- Series: I Can Read Level 4
- Author: Shea, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0064442152
- Language: English
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The Voice of Fashion: 79 Turn-of-the-Century Patterns with Instructions and Fashion Plates
$42.00 Add to cartThe Voice of Fashion contains a comprehensive selection of women’s styles from rare originals of 14 magazines published from 1900 through 1906. The 79 patterns in this book include afternoon, evening,… [more below]
- Author: Grimble, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 463
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0963651722
- Language: English
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Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance
$13.99 Read moreThe extraordinary true story behind Ernest Shackleton’s harrowing expedition to Antarctica on the Endurance–the ill-fated ship that became trapped in ice and sank to the ocean floor. Defying the odds… [more below]
- Author: Armstrong, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 375810498
- Language: English
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A Test of Wills
$18.99 Add to cart“Todd has written a first novel that speaks out, urgently and compassionately, for a long-dead generation….A meticulously wrought puzzle.”
–New York Times Book Review“An intricately plotted mystery.
- Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries #1
- Author: Todd, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0062091611
- Language: English
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A Dinosaur Named Ruth: How Ruth Mason Discovered Fossils in Her Own Backyard
$17.99 Read moreFor fans of Shark Lady and from the New York Times bestselling illustrator of Dr. Fauci comes the incredible true story of a girl who discovered dinosaur bones in her own backyard and, after years of … [more below]
- Author: Lyon, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1534474641
- Language: English
