Chronological Period/1900-1949
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Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine’s Mt. Desert Island
$16.95 Add to cartWhen the Wabanaki were moved to reservations, they proved their resourcefulness by catering to the burgeoning tourist market during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Bar Harbor was called Eden. … [more below]
- Author: McBride, Bunny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0892728043
- Language: English
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
$18.95 Add to cartA new 100th anniversary edition of the only adult book on one of the odder disasters in US history–and the greed, disregard for poor immigrants, and lack of safety standards that led to it.
Around no- Author: Puleo, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 080707800X
- Language: English
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The Man in the Arena: Selected Writings of Theodore Roosevelt: A Reader
$26.99 Add to cartThe first compilation of selections from the major works of Teddy Roosevelt since the resurgence in his popularity due to the major award-winning/bestselling biographies by Edmond Morris and H. W. Bra
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore, IV
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0765306719
- Language: English
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A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry
$23.95 Add to cart“Fry was the American Schindler…with desperate exiles, menacing Nazis, forged documents and midnight escapes… think] Casablanca.”
–New York Times
Varian Fry, the only American honored at Yad Vash
- Author: Isenberg, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: May 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0595348823
- Language: English
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Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing
$21.95 Add to cartCritical Praise for Gene Smith On Until the Last Trumpet Sounds
“”The best recent compact study of the commander of the American Expeditionary Force of World War I.”” Booklist “”A six-star effort . .- Author: Smith, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0471350648
- Language: English
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FDR
$26.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “A model presidential biography… Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man” – Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
One of today’s premier biograph- Author: Smith, Jean Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0812970497
- Language: English
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Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
$19.00 Add to cartNow a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, Self Made (formerly titled On Her Own Ground) is the first full-scale biography of “one of the great success stories of American history” (The Philadelph… [more below]
- Series: Lisa Drew Books (Paperback)
- Author: Bundles, A’Lelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1982126671
- Language: English
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Cubism
$20.00 Add to cartPioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With inspiration from African and Native American art and sculpture, its practitio
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Ganteführer-Trier, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 3836505398
- Language: English
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Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
$19.95 Read moreIn his short 37 years, John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons embodied at least several different roles in one tormented but glorious life.
By day, Parsons’ unorthodox genius created a solid rocket fuel that h… [more below]- Author: Carter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0922915970
- Language: English
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Essays on the Great Depression
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize-winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic eco
- Author: Bernanke, Ben S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0691254133
- Language: English
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How to Trade In Stocks
$14.99 Add to cartHow to Trade in Stocks – The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price
The Success Secrets of a Stock Market Legend
Jesse Livermore was a loner, an individualist-and the most successful sto
- Author: Livermore, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: March 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1638232989
- Language: English
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Shigeru Mizuki’s Hitler
$29.95 Read moreA master cartoonist and veteran tells the life story of the man who started the Second World War
Seventy years after his death, Adolf Hitler remains a mystery. Historians, military tacticians, and psyc- Author: Mizuki, Shigeru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1770462104
- Language: English
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King: The Complete Edition: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$29.99 Read more- Author: Anderson, Ho Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: February 17 2005
- ISBN10: 1560976225
- Language: English
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Fires on the Plain
$16.95 Add to cart“Written with precise skill and beautifully controlled power. The translation by Ivan Morris is outstanding.” —The New York Times
**Winner of the 1952 Yomiuri Prize** This haunting novel explores the- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Ooka, Shohei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0804813795
- Language: English
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Human Voices
$18.99 Add to cart“A wonderful combination of deadpan English comedy and surreal farce.” — A. S. Byatt “A tribute to the unsung and quintessentially English heroism of imperfect people.” — New Criterion
When British- Author: Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0544484088
- Language: English
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Red Grass River: A Legend
$18.99 Add to cartJames Carlos Blake is a masterful chronicler of the restless, outcast, the lawless, and the lonelyheart. His previous novel, In the Rogue Blood, was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fictio
- Author: Blake, James Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0380792427
- Language: English
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The Farming of Bones
$17.00 Read moreIt is 1937 and Amabelle D sir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastien, a cane
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1616953497
- Language: English
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The Last Town on Earth
$17.00 Read moreA town under quarantine during the 1918 flu epidemic must reckon with forces beyond their control in a powerful, sweeping novel of morality in a time of upheaval
“An American variation on Albert Camus- Author: Mullen, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 31 2007
- ISBN10: 812975928
- Language: English
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The Language of Threads
$22.00 Add to cartReaders of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel t
- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 21 2000
- ISBN10: 0312267568
- Language: English
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Prairie Nocturne
$19.99 Add to cartPrairie Nocturne is the epic saga of two former lovers sired in the pages of Ivan Doig’s acclaimed Montana Trilogy. Susan Duff — the bossy, indomitable schoolgirl with a silver voice from Dancing at … [more below]
- Author: Doig, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743201361
- Language: English
