Chronological Period/1900-1919
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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
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Bismarck: A Life
$25.99 Add to cartThis riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian cul… [more below]
- Author: Steinberg, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199975396
- Language: English
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The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks
$18.99 Add to cartCaldecott medalist Mordicai Gerstein captures the majestic redwoods of Yosemite in this little-known but important story from our nation’s history. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt joined natural… [more below]
- Author: Rosenstock, Barb
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 19 2012
- ISBN10: 0803737106
- Language: English
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One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story
$9.99 Add to cart“Another historical and chilling success” of revenge from beyond the grave during the 1918 influenza outbreak from ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn. (Kirkus)
“The novel’s blend of historical drama- Author: Hahn, Mary Downing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1328497984
- Language: English
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Titanic
$24.95 Add to cart“The text in the book is quite accessible for the elementary student and yet will appeal to an older audience as well… For use in school and public libraries as well as in personal collections.”
—- Author: Pipe, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 28
- Publish Date: September 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1554073030
- Language: English
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
$19.99 Add to cartNamed “One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada” (Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Spring is a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed schol… [more below]
- Author: Eksteins, Modris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0395937582
- Language: English
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Land of the Burnt Thigh: A Lively Story of Women Homesteaders on the South Dakota Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartThis tale of two sisters courageously homesteading on the prairie in 1907 provides a lively portrait of frontier life.
“Interesting in its spirit and atmosphere, and it is told simply and well. . . Thi… [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Kohl, Edith Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: October 15 1986
- ISBN10: 0873511999
- Language: English
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The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
$38.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BEST SELLER – A riveting account of Shackleton’s famed Antarctic expedition, recounting one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration–perhaps the greatest of them all—th… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0375404031
- Language: English
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Leah Braves the Flood: A Great Molasses Flood Survival Story
$9.99 Add to cartLeah dreams of leaving behind the crowded streets of Boston’s North End neighborhood to journey west. It’s the only way she’ll have the future she wants – one that doesn’t involve her getting married … [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Gilbert, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496599098
- Language: English
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The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic
$19.99 Add to cart“A lyrical, monumental work of fact and imagination.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Arrogance and innocence, hubris and hope — twenty-four haunting voices of the Titanic tragedy, as well as the- Author: Wolf, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 076366331X
- Language: English
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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America’s Deadliest Avalanche
$22.99 Add to cart“Krist does wonders . . . [He] describes the frantic rescue efforts . . . and the malevolent, unending storm. In a thrilling, climactic chapter, he conjures forth the avalanche.”–The New York Times
I- Author: Krist, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0805083294
- Language: English
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The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Jewish Book Award
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment i- Author: Schneer, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0812976037
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Introduction to the Somme 1916
$25.99 Read moreThe Battle of the Somme epitomised the cruelty of the Western Front. 1 July 1916 witnessed the opening round of the British Army’s attempt to break through an eighteen-mile front of heavily defended G… [more below]
- Series: Illustrated Introduction to …
- Author: Parker, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1445644428
- Language: English
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The Worst Journey in the World
$19.00 Add to cartA firsthand account of Scott’s disastrous Antarctic expedition
The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard–the youngest- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cherry-Garrard, Apsley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039385
- Language: English
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Titanic: Voices from the Disaster (Scholastic Focus)
$8.99 Add to cartAward-winning author Deborah Hopkinson pieces together the harrowing, tragic story of the TITANIC in this Sibert Honor volume. Now in paperback
In this award-winning book, critically acclaimed author … [more below]
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0545116759
- Language: English
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In Memoriam
$19.00 Add to cartA haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I – “Dazzling and wrenching, witty and wildly romantic, with echoes of Brideshead Revisited and Atonement.” –Le… [more below]
- Author: Winn, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0593467841
- Language: English
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Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion
$19.99 Read moreA visually stunning look at innovative and eye-popping measures used to protect ships during World War I.
During World War I, British and American ships were painted with bold colors and crazy patter
- Author: Barton, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1512410144
- Language: English
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Soldiers Unknown
$29.95 Read moreThe Klamath River, 1918. The native Yurok people of Northern California have been untouched by the savage world war raging in Europe–until now. Three cousins are called to serve a nation that has giv… [more below]
- Author: Lowry, Chag
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1942279280
- Language: English
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Ashes of Roses
$11.99 Add to cartWhen Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, she is looking for a land of opportunities; what she finds is far from all she’d dreamed. Stubborn and tenacious, she r
- Author: Auch, Mj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0312535805
- Language: English
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Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire
$22.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more t- Author: Finkel, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0465023975
- Language: English
