Chronological Period/1900-1919
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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
$19.00 Read more#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s
In this “overpowering and beautiful nov- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulks, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 02 1997
- ISBN10: 0679776818
- Language: English
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By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families
$28.00 Read moreFrom one of Canada’s most beloved performing artists comes an audacious work of non-fiction that explores the stories that shape us and the reach that the past can have across generations.
Growing up- Author: Thomson, R. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1039008380
- Language: English
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The Skylarks’ War
$8.99 Read moreA Boston Globe Best Book of 2018
“Vivid, hilarious, and heartbreaking.” –Elizabeth Wein, New York Times bestselling author of Code Name Verity “The best children’s book
A Horn Book Best Book of 2018- Author: McKay, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1534427112
- Language: English
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The Phantom Twin
$17.99 Add to cartA young woman is haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin, in Lisa Brown’s The Phantom Twin, a sweetly spooky graphic novel set in a turn-of-the-century sideshow.
Isabel and Jane are the Extraordina- Author: Brown, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1626729247
- Language: English
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Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Mata Hari
$7.99 Read moreChoose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Mata Hari by Katherine Factor takes YOU around the world and back in time. 9-12 year old readers will enact the early life of an actual historic spy, Margaretha Zelle,… [more below]
- Series: Choose Your Own Adventure
- Author: Factor, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 193713332X
- Language: English
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Leah Braves the Flood: A Great Molasses Flood Survival Story
$27.99 Read moreLeah dreams of leaving behind the crowded streets of Boston’s North End neighborhood to journey west. It’s the only way she’ll have the future she wants – one that doesn’t involve her getting married … [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Gilbert, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496596897
- Language: English
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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
$21.00 Add to cartA searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath–from the prizewinning economist and author of Shutdown, Crashed and The Wages of Destruction
Winner of the L- Author: Tooze, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127977
- Language: English
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
$20.00 Add to cartIn his classic book, T.E. Lawrence–forever known as Lawrence of Arabia–recounts his role in the origin of the modern Arab world. At first a shy Oxford scholar and archaeologist with a facility for l… [more below]
- Author: Lawrence, T. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: June 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0385418957
- Language: English
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Shout at the Devil
$17.99 Read moreA thrilling WW1 adventure novel from global bestseller Wilbur Smith
“For the first time they confronted each other. These two who had played murderous hide-and-seek for three long years across ten tho- Author: Smith, Wilbur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1499860129
- Language: English
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Sprinting Through No Man’s Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France
$14.95 Read moreThe inspiring, heart-pumping true story of soldiers turned cyclists and the historic 1919 Tour de France that helped to restore a war-torn country and its people.
On June 29, 1919, one day after the Tr
- Author: Dobkin, Adin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1542018838
- Language: English
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Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary
$11.99 Read moreLearn about the 1907 outbreak of typhoid fever and “Typhoid Mary” in this book perfect to share with young readers interested in a historical perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic that is gripping the … [more below]
- Series: Deadly Diseases
- Author: Jarrow, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1635925150
- Language: English
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A Fatal Lie
$18.99 Add to cart“If there’s ever been a more complex and compelling hero in crime fiction than Inspector Rutledge, I can’t think of one.” –Jeffery Deaver
In one of his most puzzling cases, Scotland Yard Inspector Ia
- Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries #23
- Author: Todd, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0062905562
- Language: English
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Who Was Jules Verne?
$6.99 Read moreMeet the father of science fiction, Jule Verne.
Born in France in 1829, Jules Verne always dreamed of adventure. At age 11, he snuck onboard a ship headed for the Indies only to be discovered by his f- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Buckley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0448488507
- Language: English
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The Return of the Soldier
$15.00 Add to cartA soldier returns home transformed by World War I, sending shock waves through the lives of three women, in Rebecca West’s groundbreaking debut novel
Jenny has been waiting for the return of her cousi- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: West, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0812971221
- Language: English
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Avis Dolphin
$16.95 Read moreInspired by the story of actual passengers on the ill-fated Lusitania, this is a novel of great adventure and suspense, including graphic novel-style illustrations.
Avis Dolphin doesn’t want to leave
- Author: Wishinsky, Frieda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1554984890
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring
$42.95 Add to cartThough she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman–the daughter of Romanian-born
- Author: Wallance, Gregory J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1612349439
- Language: English
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The Sun Also Rises
$24.99 Read moreHemingway’s brilliant first novel is a poignant tale of love, loss, and the power to endure.
In his unforgettable first novel, Hemingway artfully illuminates the plight of the Lost Generation, weaving
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 9798200881796
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 10
$56.25 Add to cart“I’ve struck it!” Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. “And I will give it away–to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography.” … [more below]
- Series: Mark Twain Papers #10
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 760
- Publish Date: November 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0520267192
- Language: English
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The Mexican Revolution
$18.95 Add to cartFirst published in Spanish in 1971, The Mexican Revolution has been praised by Mexico’s Nobel Prize-winning author Octavio Paz as a “notable contribution” to history and is widely recognized as a semi
- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Gilly, Adolfo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1595581235
- Language: English
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Fear: A Novel of World War I
$19.95 Read moreA NYRB Classics Original
A young soldier learns the true meaning of fear amidst the carnage of World War I in this literary masterpiece and “one of
Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Chevallier, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177169
- Language: English
