Chronological Period/1900-1919
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Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909
$19.99 Add to cartThe true story of the young immigrant who led the largest strike of women workers in U.S. history. This picture book biography about the plight of immigrants in America in the early 1900s and the time
- Author: Markel, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0061804428
- Language: English
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The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
$23.00 Add to cartWinner of the Caughey Western History Prize
Winner of the Robert G. Athearn Award
Winner of the Lawrence W. Levine Award
Winner of the TCU Texas Book Award
Winner of the NACCS Tejas Foco Nonfiction Book A- Author: Martinez, Monica Mu?oz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0674244826
- Language: English
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Testament of Youth
$23.00 Read moreGiving a voice to a lost generation, this edition features a new introduction by Brittain’s biographer. Now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Hayley Atwell, and Taron Ege… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Brittain, Vera
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 31 2005
- ISBN10: 0143039237
- Language: English
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The Group
$19.99 Add to cartWritten with a trenchant, sardonic edge, The Group is a dazzlingly outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America between two world wars. “Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost c
- Author: McCarthy, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 16 1991
- ISBN10: 0156372088
- Language: English
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Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin
$39.95 Add to cartWhen Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin first appeared in the fall of 2000, it inspired wide acclaim and multiple printings.
This sourcebook of hundreds of rare visual delights from t… [more below]- Author: Gordon, Mel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0922915962
- Language: English
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Mrs. Dalloway
$8.99 Add to cartIn the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172590
- Language: English
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The Poppy Lady: Moina Belle Michael and Her Tribute to Veterans
$18.99 Add to cartHere is the inspiring story behind the Veterans Day red poppy, a symbol that honors the service and sacrifices of our veterans.
When American soldiers entered World War I, Moina Belle Michael, a schoo- Author: Walsh, Barbara E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1590787544
- Language: English
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The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway
$35.00 Add to cart“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” So begins Virginia Woolf’s much-beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway has long been viewed not only as Woolf’s masterpiec
- Series: Annotated Books
- Author: Emre, Merve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 163149676X
- Language: English
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Don’t Push Me
$19.00 Add to cartInspired by true events, “Don’t Push Me” is an intergenerational saga of gay romance and the shame that cripples it. On a ski vacation in the Alps, Elliott discovers that the owners of the inn where h
- Author: Hartwig, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: November 22 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218327910
- Language: English
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Lucy Fights the Flames: A Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Survival Story
$9.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496584481
- Language: English
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Gem of the Ocean
$15.95 Add to cart“No one except perhaps Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater.”–John Lahr, The New Yorker
“A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty.
- Author: Wilson, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1559362804
- Language: English
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Character Building
$8.99 Add to cartA compilation of more than 30 addresses from Booker T. Washington explaining the importance of personal responsibility, self-reflection and economic independence in the Black community. Character Buil
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Washington, Booker T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 766
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 151327113X
- Language: English
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Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One’s Own
$17.95 Add to cartIn this remarkable and important book, Sarah Carter introduces us to some of Montana’s first women homesteaders through their journals and other writings. By shedding light on these determined ninetee… [more below]
- Author: Carter, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 295
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1560374497
- Language: English
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Sobrevivà Los Ataques de Tiburones de 1916 (I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916): Volume 2
$5.99 Add to cartBased on true events It’s the summer of 1916 and the Jersey shore is being terrorized by a Great White shark. Can 10-year-old Chet and his friends survive a swim in the local creek?
The Spanish editio… [more below]
- Series: Sobreviv? #2
- Author: Dawson, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 26 2018
- ISBN10: 133833123X
- Language: Spanish
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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
$27.00 Add to cartA magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world
The product of a decade of intrepid research, Stalin is a landmark achievement. Stephen Kotkin offers a biogr- Author: Kotkin, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: October 13, 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127861
- Language: English
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia
$19.99 Add to cart“[A] superb history…. In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic…; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickr… [more below]
- Author: Fleming, Candace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0375867821
- Language: English
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Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
$29.99 Add to cartMichael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe
- Author: Korda, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1631496883
- Language: English
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All Quiet on the Western Front
$28.00 Read moreThe original US edition of the masterpiece of war literature depicting the plight of German soldiers during World War I–now an Oscar-nominated Netflix film
From the perspective of Paul B?mer, a youn- Author: Remarque, Erich Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 30 1929
- ISBN10: 0316739928
- Language: English
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Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
$27.95 Add to cartThe definitive history of Weimar politics, culture, and society
Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and striki
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year- Author: Weitz, Eric D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0691183058
- Language: English
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Story of the Titanic
$18.99 Add to cartThe true story of the world’s most famous ship is retold in this beautiful book with stunning visuals and a gripping narrative.
One fateful night in 1912 the so-called Ship of Dreams turned into a nig- Series: DK a History of
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0756691710
- Language: English
