Chronological Period/1900-1919
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A Peace to End All Peace, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
$26.00 Add to cartPublished with a new afterword from the author–the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created
The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nation- Author: Fromkin, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: July 21, 2009
- ISBN10: 0805088091
- Language: English
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I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 (I Survived #5): Volume 5
$5.99 Add to cartThe terrifying details of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake jump off the page
Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco — not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he’… [more below]
- Series: I Survived #05
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 01, 2012
- ISBN10: 0545206995
- Language: English
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I Survived the Wellington Avalanche, 1910 (I Survived #22)
$5.99 Add to cartThe Wellington snow slide of 1910 was–and still is–the deadliest avalanche in America’s history. Lauren Tarshis’s story of one child surviving the frozen nightmare pounds with page-turning action an… [more below]
- Series: I Survived #22
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1338752561
- Language: English
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait–the bestselling author of River of the Gods brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s ha… [more below]
- Author: Millard, Candice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0767913736
- Language: English
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Tonight on the Titanic
$6.99 Add to cartThe #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!
Titanic trouble! Jack and Annie are in for an exciting, scary, and sad- Series: Magic Tree House (R) #17
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 23 1999
- ISBN10: 679890637
- Language: English
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I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 (I Survived #2): 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?
Chet Roscow is fin
- Series: I Survived #02
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 0545206952
- Language: English
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts
$28.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical n
- Author: Arden, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 13, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593128257
- Language: English
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The Phoenix Crown
$18.99 Add to cartFrom bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake t
- Author: Quinn, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 13, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063304732
- Language: English
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I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived #1): Volume 1
$4.99 Add to cartThe most terrifying events in history are brought vividly to life in this New York Times-bestselling series
Ten-year-old George Calder can’t believe his luck — he and his little sister, Phoebe, are o
- Series: I Survived #01
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 0545206944
- Language: English
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All Quiet on the Western Front
$9.99 Add to cartThe masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time–with an Oscar-winning film adaptation now streaming on Netflix.
“[Erich Maria Remar- Series: All Quiet on the Western Front #1
- Author: Remarque, Erich Maria
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12, 1987
- ISBN10: 0449213943
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
$28.99 Add to cartThis instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the hidden history Rudolf Diesel, one of the world’s greatest inventors, and his mysterious disappearance… [more below]
- Author: Brunt, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1982169907
- Language: English
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartA 2005 Newbery Honor Book
It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg, Maine. No one in town will let him forget that he’s a minister’s son, even if he doesn’t act lik- Author: Schmidt, Gary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 0358206391
- Language: English
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Race to the South Pole (Ranger in Time #4): Volume 4
$7.99 Add to cartRanger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, is back This time, he joins a dangerous expedition to the South Pole
Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever with sear… [more below]
- Series: Ranger in Time #4
- Author: Messner, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0545639255
- Language: English
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
$28.99 Add to cartA PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
The beloved American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.
From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be
- Author: Smith, Betty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 13, 2001
- ISBN10: 0060001941
- Language: English
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Escape from the Great Earthquake (Ranger in Time #6): Volume 6
$7.99 Add to cartRanger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, helps two new friends survive the Great San Francisco Earthquake
Ranger travels to San Francisco and meets Lily Chen. She w… [more below]
- Series: Ranger in Time #6
- Author: Messner, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 054590983X
- Language: English
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A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
$30.00 Add to cartThe definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: “Fascinating…serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long pass… [more below]
- Series: Hemingway Library Edition
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 10, 2012
- ISBN10: 1451658168
- Language: English
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The Winter Soldier
$18.99 Add to cartThe epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of North Woods and The Piano Tuner is “a dream of a novel…part mystery, part war story, part romance” (Anthony Doerr, author of All t… [more below]
- Author: Mason, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 316477591
- Language: English
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The World War I Book
$29.99 Add to cartDiscover the key battles, tactics, technologies, and turning points of the First World War – the epic conflict that was supposed to be “the war to end all wars.”
Combining authoritative, exciting text- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0744091977
- Language: English
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
$32.50 Add to cart“As visually arresting as it is informative.”–The Boston Globe
“Du Bois’s bold colors and geometric shapes were decades ahead of modernist graphic design in America.”–Fast Company’s Co.Design W.E.B.- Author: The W E B Du Bois Center at the Universi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1616897066
- Language: English
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Mine Were of Trouble: A Nationalist Account of the Spanish Civil War
$9.93 Add to cartThe Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Espala).
Escalating violence between left- and right-wing political factions boils over. Military officers stage a coup against a democratically elected
- Author: Kemp, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 1777493897
- Language: English
