Chronological Period/1900-1919
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The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend
$21.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed New York Times bestselling biography of the legendary Sioux warrior Red Cloud: “a page-turner with remarkable immediacy…and the narrative sweep of a great Western” (The Boston Globe). … [more below]
- Author: Drury, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1451654685
- Language: English
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May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
$21.00 Add to cartThe twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon John… [more below]
- Series: The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
- Author: Perry, Imani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 146966609X
- Language: English
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The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
$16.99 Add to cartTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
“A stunning story… The ending is ingenious, and it’s possible that Benedict has brought to life the most plausible explanation for why Christie di
- Author: Benedict, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 1728234301
- Language: English
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The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
$21.00 Add to cartSmithsonian Magazine, 10 Best History Books of 2021 – “Fascinating . . . Purity is in the mind of the beholder, but beware the man who vows to protect yours.” –Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker
Anthony- Author: Sohn, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 125017483X
- Language: English
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The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic about the Outbreak of World War I
$10.99 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.’… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0345476093
- Language: English
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Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history–from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White Ci… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 11 2000
- ISBN10: 0375708278
- Language: English
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
$23.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania
“Both terrifying and enthralling.”–Entertainm- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0307408876
- Language: English
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The Pull of the Stars
$16.99 Add to cartIn Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in “Donoghue’s best novel since Room” (Kirkus Reviews).
In an Ireland dou- Author: Donoghue, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 06, 2021
- ISBN10: 031649903X
- Language: English
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller!
“The glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still.” —NPR Books
Discover the gripping and inspiring true story of Th
- Author: Moore, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: March 06, 2018
- ISBN10: 1492650951
- Language: English
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The Man from the Train: Discovering America’s Most Elusive Serial Killer
$21.00 Add to cartAn Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistici
- Author: James, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 09, 2018
- ISBN10: 1476796262
- Language: English
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A Farewell to Arms
$18.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1476764522
- Language: English
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The Alice Network: A Reese’s Book Club Pick
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times and USA Today Bestseller
An NPR’s Best Book of the Year
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick!
The 2017 Girly Book Club Book of the Year!
A Summer Book Pick from Good Housekeeping, Parade, Li
- Author: Quinn, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 06, 2017
- ISBN10: 0062654195
- Language: English
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
$18.99 Add to cartA PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
A special 75th anniversary edition of the beloved American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.
From the moment she en
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Smith, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 493
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0060736267
- Language: English
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The Lake House
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Homecoming comes a “moody, suspenseful page-turner” (People, Best Book Pick) filled with mystery and spellbinding secrets.
Living on her family’s idyllic- Author: Morton, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1451649355
- Language: English
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Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
$21.95 Read moreThe dramatic story of explorer Douglas Mawson and “the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history” (Sir Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer)
For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas- Author: Bickel, Lennard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2000
- ISBN10: 1586420003
- Language: English
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Leviathan (Boxed Set): Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath
$44.99 Add to cartDestiny meets history in the complete boxed set of the riveting, New York Times bestselling Leviathan trilogy.
It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, ste- Series: Leviathan Trilogy
- Author: Westerfeld, Scott
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 1552
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1442483776
- Language: English
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The Race
$10.99 Add to cart20th century detective Isaac Bell protects a promising aviator from her jealous husband in this remarkable adventure from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Clive Cussler.
It is 1910, the age of fly- Series: Isaac Bell Adventures #4
- Author: Cussler, Clive
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 042525044X
- Language: English
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Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt’s gla… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0316014001
- Language: English
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller. A Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Entertainment Weekly, and Amazon Best Book of the Year.
A dramatic account of the worst forest fire in American history by the au
- Author: Egan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 07, 2010
- ISBN10: 0547394608
- Language: English
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Behemoth
$14.99 Add to cartThe behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker Powers.
Deryn is a gir- Series: Leviathan Trilogy
- Author: Westerfeld, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 09 2011
- ISBN10: 1416971769
- Language: English
