Chronological Period/1900-1919
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Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
$18.99 Add to cart“By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.”–Marg
- Author: Wills, Shomari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0062437607
- Language: English
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Disaster on the Titanic (Ranger in Time #9): Volume 9
$7.99 Add to cartRanger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, finds himself in 1912… on board the Titanic
Everyone says the Titanic is unsinkable, and Patrick Murphy believes this mos… [more below]
- Series: Ranger in Time #9
- Author: Messner, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1338133985
- Language: English
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Dragonwings
$9.99 Add to cartNewbery Honor Book Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep takes readers on an adventure-filled journey across the world.
Inspired by the story of a Chinese immigrant who created a flying machine in 1909, Dragon
- Series: Golden Mountain Chronicles
- Author: Yep, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 317
- Publish Date: January 23, 2001
- ISBN10: 0064400859
- Language: English
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Johnny Got His Gun
$17.95 Add to cartThe Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers
An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo’s stark, profoundly troubling masterpie- Author: Trumbo, Dalton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0806528478
- Language: English
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Lily and the Great Quake: A San Francisco Earthquake Survival Story
$9.99 Add to cartLily is a twelve-year-old Chinese American girl living in San Francisco’s Chinatown when an earthquake destroys her home and sets her neighborhood on fire. Separated from her parents, Lily must help h… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Bybee, Veeda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496592174
- Language: English
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At Night All Blood Is Black
$16.00 Add to cart*WINNER OF THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE*
*ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021*
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction
Shortlisted for the 2022 DUBLIN Literary Aw- Author: Diop, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 17, 2021
- ISBN10: 125080020X
- Language: English
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Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John Muir
$14.99 Add to cartThe exciting life story of John Muir–who sailed to America as a boy and ended up changing the world; told for the first time in a graphic novel.
John Muir led an adventurous life, starting with his wi
- Author: Bertagna, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1930238908
- Language: English
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Storm of Steel: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the great war memoirs, published here in a stunning Deluxe Edition for the centenary of World War I and the Battle of the Somme–and featuring a foreword by the New York Times bestselling autho… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Junger, Ernst
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 0143108255
- Language: English
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A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention Into the Russian Civil War
$32.00 Add to cartThe first comprehensive history of the failed Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, a decisive turning point in the relationship between Russia and the West
Overlapping with and overshadowed- Author: Reid, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619668
- Language: English
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The Well of Loneliness
$9.99 Read more‘As a man loved a woman, that was how I loved…It was good, good, good…’
Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents – a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war h
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Hall, Radclyffe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 184022455X
- Language: English
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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
$24.00 Add to cartThe Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge–a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness
- Author: Asbridge, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 08, 2011
- ISBN10: 0060787295
- Language: English
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The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson
$35.00 Read more“The extraordinary untold story of how a disillusioned American diplomat named William C. Bullitt came to Freud’s couch in 1926, and how Freud and his patient collaborated on a psychobiography of Pres
- Author: Weil, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0674291611
- Language: English
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Mrs. Dalloway
$11.00 Add to cartThis new edition of one of Virginia Woolf’s most celebrated novels features an introduction by Michael Cunningham, acclaimed bestselling author of The Hours.
Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the … [more below]- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0593311809
- Language: English
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The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War: Translated by Cecil Parrott. with Original Illustrations by Josef Lada.
$22.00 Add to cartDiscover “perhaps the funniest novel ever written” (The Guardian ), now beautifully reissued
“The classic comic novel of the First World War.” —The New Yorker – “A literary masterpiece.” —New York Re
- Author: Hasek, Jaroslav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 0062835440
- Language: English
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Mine Were of Trouble: A Nationalist Account of the Spanish Civil War
$19.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 1777493889
- Language: English
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Lost Roses
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, featu… [more below]
- Series: Woolsey-Ferriday
- Author: Kelly, Martha Hall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1524796395
- Language: English
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The Whistling Season
$18.99 Add to cartCan’t cook but doesn’t bite. So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an “A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition” that draws the attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the … [more below]
- Author: Doig, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07, 2007
- ISBN10: 0156031647
- Language: English
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
$19.00 Add to cartA PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
A beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of the beloved American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.
Fro
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Smith, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 30, 2006
- ISBN10: 0061120073
- Language: English
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Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
$15.99 Add to cartA great American sport and Native American history come together in this true story for middle grade readers about how Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner created the legendary Carlisle Indians football team, f
- Author: Sheinkin, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1250294479
- Language: English
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The Fortnight in September
$18.00 Add to cartThis charming, timeless classic about a family of five setting out on their annual seaside vacation is “the most uplifting, life-affirming novel I can think of…the beautiful dignity to be found in e
- Author: Sherriff, R. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07, 2021
- ISBN10: 1982184787
- Language: English
