Chronological Period/1900-1949
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Disappearances
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the New England Book Award, Howard Frank Mosher’s endearing novel is both a heroic adventure and a thrilling coming-of-age story. It is the memorable tale of a young man named Wild Bill Bonh
- Author: Mosher, Howard Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0618694064
- Language: English
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Half-Blood Blues
$23.99 Add to cartWinner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011
An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction Berlin, 1939. The Hot Time- Author: Edugyan, Esi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250012708
- Language: English
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The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy
$17.99 Add to cartThe Big Money completes John Dos Passos’s three-volume “fable of America’s materialistic success and moral decline” (American Heritage) and marks the end of “one of the most ambitious projects that an… [more below]
- Series: U.S.A. Trilogy #3
- Author: Dos Passos, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0618056831
- Language: English
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Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth
$19.00 Add to cartWILLA Literary Award Winner and Colorado Book Award Winner! When Margaret Tobin Brown arrived in New York City shortly after her perilous night in Titanic’s Lifeboat Six, a legend was born. Through ma… [more below]
- Author: Iversen, Kristen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: April 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1555664687
- Language: English
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The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution
$13.00 Add to cartThe greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, in a brilliant new translation by an award-winning translator
The Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth ce- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Azuela, Mariano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105272
- Language: English
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The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life
$18.99 Add to cartIn the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah’s windswept shore, two legends of the game–Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen–meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown
- Author: Pressfield, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 1996
- ISBN10: 038072751X
- Language: English
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Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist
$9.99 Add to cart“I remember the day I lost my spirit.” So begins the story of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Sa, which means Red Bird. Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Zitkala-S
- Author: Capaldi, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1541578368
- Language: English
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Nacho’s Nachos: The Story Behind the World’s Favorite Snack
$19.95 Read moreThe delicious true story of an inventive chef and the serendipitous events that led to the creation of the world’s favorite snack–nachos!
Ignacio Anaya was born in Mexico in 1895, and like a lot of Ig
- Author: Nickel, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1620143690
- Language: English
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The English Patient
$18.00 Add to cartBOOKER PRIZE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – The bestselling author of Warlight traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. “A rare spellbind… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Ondaatje, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 30 1993
- ISBN10: 0679745203
- Language: English
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A Parchment of Leaves
$17.95 Add to cartIn 1900s Kentucky, Saul Sullivan leaves his bride behind to seek work, and his brother steps in, with violent consequences.
- Author: House, Silas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1949467252
- Language: English
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Nikola Tesla
$15.99 Read moreFrom the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Nikola Tesla, the scientist and inventor whose groundbreaking inventions we continu… [more below]
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #83
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 071127083X
- Language: English
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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press
$22.00 Add to cartStories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the
- Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
- Author: Portnoy, Eddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 150360411X
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$12.00 Add to cartThe ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him,… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394741048
- Language: English
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
$19.99 Add to cartNamed “One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada” (Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Spring is a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed schol… [more below]
- Author: Eksteins, Modris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0395937582
- Language: English
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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
$19.99 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JEREMY IRONS AND DEV PATEL!
A moving and enlightening look at the unbelievable true story of how gifted prodigy Ramanujan stunned the scholars of Cambridge Universi- Author: Kanigel, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1476763496
- Language: English
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Harry Houdini
$15.99 Read moreIn this book from the highly acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Harry Houdini, one of the most famous entertainers to have ever lived.
When he was four, littl- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #77
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0711259453
- Language: English
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Women of the Silk
$17.99 Add to cartIn Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk fact
- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0312099436
- Language: English
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The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
$38.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BEST SELLER – A riveting account of Shackleton’s famed Antarctic expedition, recounting one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration–perhaps the greatest of them all—th… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0375404031
- Language: English
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
$30.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics–soon to be a Showtime limited series
… [more below]- Author: Chabon, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 19 2000
- ISBN10: 0679450041
- Language: English
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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam
$25.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how an- Author: Logevall, Fredrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0375756477
- Language: English
