Chronological Period/1900-1919
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Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition
$17.00 Add to cartWho, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic
orders? and even if one of them pressed me
suddenly to his heart: I’d be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginni- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0865476071
- Language: English
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Lines of Courage
$8.99 Add to cart- Author: Nielsen, Jennifer A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1338620959
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery
$6.95 Add to cartThe dramatic autobiographical account of Booker T. Washington’s unique American experience–a struggle against social and ideological bias that he began as a slave and never stopped.
“Washington’s sto- Author: Washington, Booker T.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531477
- Language: English
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Before She Was Harriet
$18.99 Add to cartWho was Harriet Tubman before she was Harriet?
We know her today as Harriet Tubman, but in her lifetime she was called by many names. As General Tubman she was a Union spy. As Moses she led hundreds t- Series: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books
- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0823420477
- Language: English
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Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe
$21.95 Add to cartThe story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village–and a vital chapter of the history of the North Shore
“We do this because telling where you are from is just as important as … [more below]
- Author: Drouillard, Staci Lola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1517903408
- Language: English
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In Our Time: Stories
$6.00 Read moreHemingway made his North American literary debut in 1925 with In Our Time, his first collection of short stories and vignettes. Widely praised at the time for what later would be considered the author… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0486848965
- Language: English
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The Jungle
$6.99 Add to cartIn this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the ast… [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Sinclair, Upton
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0553212451
- Language: English
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Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
$9.99 Read moreTheodosia Throckmorton has her hands full at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities in London. Her father may be head curator, but it is Theo–and only Theo–who is able to see all the magic and ancien
- Series: Theodosia #1
- Author: Lafevers, R. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0618999760
- Language: English
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President Taft Is Stuck in the Bath
$8.99 Add to cart“Hilarious. . . . Studying the presidency need never be dull again.” — Booklist
George Washington crossed the Delaware in the dead of night. Abraham Lincoln saved the Union. And President William How- Author: Barnett, Mac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0763665568
- Language: English
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Sobrevivà El Terremoto de San Francisco, 1906 (I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906)
$5.99 Add to cartThe terrifying details of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake jump off the page
iLa versi n en espa ol de I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 A Leo, de diez a os, le gusta ser vendedor de peri… [more below]
- Series: Sobreviv? #5
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1338601210
- Language: Spanish
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The Care and Management of Lies: A Novel of the Great War
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fracture
- Series: P.S. (Paperback)
- Author: Winspear, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0062220519
- Language: English
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Regeneration
$20.00 Add to cart“Calls to mind such early moderns as Hemingway and Fitzgerald…Some of the most powerful antiwar literature in modern English fiction.”–The Boston Globe
The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy–a … [more below]- Series: Regeneration Trilogy
- Author: Barker, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 31 2013
- ISBN10: 0142180599
- Language: English
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Carrie and the Great Storm: A Galveston Hurricane Survival Story
$9.99 Read moreTwelve-year-old Carrie is excited to spend the night at her best friend Betsy’s house one Saturday night in the turn of the century Galveston, Texas. But when her parents receive a last-minute invitat
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Gunderson, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 1496584473
- Language: English
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The Sun Also Rises
$30.00 Add to cartThe only authorized edition of Ernest Hemingway‘s first novel.
“The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, a- Series: Hemingway Library Edition
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1476739951
- Language: English
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Silence for the Dead
$19.00 Add to cart“Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow….”
In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a n- Author: St James, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0451419480
- Language: English
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The First Man in Rome
$19.99 Add to cartWith extraordinary narrative power, New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough sweeps the reader into a whirlpool of pageantry and passion, bringing to vivid life the most glorious epoch in
- Series: Masters of Rome #1
- Author: McCullough, Colleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1152
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0061582417
- Language: English
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Hardscrabble
$9.99 Read more2020-2021 South Carolina Book Awards 2019 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Juvenile Book Winner 2019 Spur Award – Western Writer’s of America Finalist In 1910, after losing their farm in Iowa, the Marti… [more below]
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1585363766
- Language: English
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
$34.00 Add to cartThe beloved American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the century.
From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of
- Author: Smith, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 830
- Publish Date: January 18, 2005
- ISBN10: 0060745940
- Language: English
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On the Banks of the Bayou
$11.99 Read moreThe seventh book in the Rose Years series, the story of the spirited daughter of the author of the beloved Little House series.
A whole new world opens up for Rose Wilder when she leaves Rocky Ridge F
- Series: Little House Sequel
- Author: MacBride, Roger Lea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 19 1998
- ISBN10: 0064405826
- Language: English
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The Great War and Modern Memory
$23.99 Add to cartWinner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century’s 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell’s The Great Wa… [more below]
- Author: Fussell, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0199971951
- Language: English
