Chronological Period/1900-1919
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Library for the War-Wounded
$26.99 Read moreThe internationally bestselling novel-a daughter’s portrait of her WWII veteran father, assembled from shards of memory.
We called him Vati, Dad. Not Papa. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted to p- Author: Helfer, Monika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 163973239X
- Language: English
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The Masters of Atlantis
$19.00 Add to cartMasters of Atlantis is a cockeyed journey into an America of misfits and con men, oddballs, and innocents, by one of America’s most respected novelists, #1New York Times bestselling author Charles Por… [more below]
- Author: Portis, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1585670219
- Language: English
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The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
“Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park.” –Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile
Lindsey F- Author: Fitzharris, Lindsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1250872928
- Language: English
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A Beautiful Rival: A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden
$18.99 Add to cartIn this stunning new novel, bestselling author Gill Paul reveals the unknown history of cosmetic titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein and their infamous rivalry that spanned not only decades,
- Author: Paul, Gill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0063245116
- Language: English
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After Anne: A Novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Life
$18.99 Add to cartUSA TODAY BESTSELLER
A stunning and unexpected portrait of Lucy Maud Montgomery, creator of one of literature’s most prized heroines, whose personal demons were at odds with her most enduring legacy–t
- Author: Steiner, Logan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0063246457
- Language: English
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Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
$7.99 Add to cart- 2022 Pura Belpr? Honor Book
- NYPL Best Book of 2021
- Texas Bluebonnet Master List Selection
- NPR Best Book of 2021
Based on a true story, the tale of one girl’s perilous journey to cross the U.S. border and
- Series: Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
- Author: Dobbs, Alda P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1728251664
- Language: English
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Mrs. Dalloway: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$16.00 Add to cartA stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf’s engulfing portrait of one day in a woman’s life, featuring a new foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of Spec
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 0143136135
- Language: English
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Lines of Courage
$17.99 Add to cartJennifer A. Nielsen, award-winning author of A Night Divided and Rescue, artfully weaves together the stories of five kids living through World War I, each of whom holds the key to the others’ futures
- Author: Nielsen, Jennifer A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 17, 2022
- ISBN10: 1338620932
- Language: English
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The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series
$25.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – “A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s statement that the first month of World War I was ‘a drama never surpassed.’
- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 08, 1994
- ISBN10: 034538623X
- Language: English
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Hotel Cuba
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Hamburger, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063221446
- Language: English
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The Sun Also Rises
$19.00 Add to cartNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
This new edition of The Sun Also Rises celebrates the art and craft of Hemingway’s quintessential story of the Lost Ge- Series: Hemingway Library Edition
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 16, 2016
- ISBN10: 1501121960
- Language: English
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A Farewell to Arms
$19.99 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s classic novel of love during wartime. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the … [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0684801469
- Language: English
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Ethan Frome
$11.00 Add to cartSet against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by Eliza… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0142437808
- Language: English
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The Sun Also Rises
$12.00 Add to cartThe debut novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author that is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their dreams in postwar… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0593466349
- Language: English
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The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation
$18.95 Add to cartYears before Charles Lindbergh’s flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of daredevil pilots, most of them veterans of the World War I, brought aviation to the masses by competin
- Author: Lancaster, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324094079
- Language: English
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The President’s Wife
$27.99 Read more“A vivid portrait of a woman whose remarkable role and achievements in history have largely been relegated to the shadows… A fascinating read!” –Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author
- Author: Wood, Tracey Enerson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1728257840
- Language: English
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Ham on Rye
$17.99 Add to cart“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.” –Los Angeles Times Book R
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 29, 2014
- ISBN10: 006117758X
- Language: English
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The Wright Brothers
$19.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize–the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly–Wilbur
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 03, 2016
- ISBN10: 1476728755
- Language: English
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A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic
$18.99 Add to cartThe classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick
First published in 1955, A Night to Remember remains a- Series: Holt Paperback
- Author: Lord, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 07, 2005
- ISBN10: 0805077642
- Language: English
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Canary Girls
$36.00 Add to cartRosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain’s arsenals d
- Author: Chiaverini, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 63322749
- Language: English
