Chronological Period/1900-1949
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Adoniram Judson: Bound for Burma
$11.99 Add to cartAs America’s first foreign missionary, Adoniram Judson spent thirty-eight years working in Burma, then one of the most hostile countries on earth. Judson was ignored, mocked, beaten, and tortured, yet… [more below]
- Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 05 2001
- ISBN10: 1576581616
- Language: English
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A Man of the Beatitudes: Pier Giorgio Frassati
$17.95 Read moreA beguiling and moving biography of Pier Giorgio Frassati, a handsome, athletic and fun-loving young man from a rich, aristocratic Italian family in the 1920’s who was recently beatified by Pope John … [more below]
- Author: Frassati, Luciana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: June 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0898708613
- Language: English
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Where the Red Fern Grows
$19.99 Add to cartA young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart’s desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.
- Author: Rawls, Wilson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1432850326
- Language: English
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
$18.99 Add to cartIn this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and
- Author: Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346105
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
$19.99 Read moreBestselling author-illustrator Marissa Moss tells the gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission
As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century,
- Author: Moss, Marissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1419758535
- Language: English
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Bauhaus. Updated Edition
$80.00 Read moreIn a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusi
- Author: Droste, Magdalena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 28 2018
- ISBN10: 3836572826
- Language: English
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Across the River and Into the Trees
$18.00 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber!
A poignant tale of a revitalizing love that is found too late–the fleeting connection between an Italian countess and an injured American co- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 12 1996
- ISBN10: 0684825538
- Language: English
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
$15.99 Read moreIn a riveting biography that reads like a crime novel, Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti uncovers the true story of Mary Mallon, a.k.a. Typhoid Mary, one of the most m
- Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0063295962
- Language: English
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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
$42.99 Add to cartOne Palestine, Complete explores the tumultuous period before the creation of the state of Israel. This was the time of the British Mandate, when Britain’s promise to both Jews and Arabs that they wou
- Author: Segev, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0805065873
- Language: English
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Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Harry Houdini
$7.99 Add to cartChoose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Harry Houdini by Katherine Factor puts YOU in the shoes of America’s first famous magician, Harry Houdini, also known as “The King of Cuffs.” 9-12 year old readers wil… [more below]
- Author: Factor, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1937133362
- Language: English
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Stepping on the Cracks
$9.99 Add to cartIn 1944, when her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret changes her mind about the school bully, Gordy, after she discovers he is hiding his own brother, a deserter.
A… [more below]
- Author: Hahn, Mary Downing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547076606
- Language: English
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Gandhi an Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
$20.00 Add to cartMohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, wh… [more below]
- Author: Gandhi, Mohandas K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0807059099
- Language: English
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The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just
$19.99 Add to cart“A must-purchase picture book biography of a figure sure to inspire awe and admiration among readers.”–School Library Journal (starred review)
Extraordinary illustrations and lyrical text present p
- Author: Mangal, Mélina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1512483753
- Language: English
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Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb
$28.95 Add to cart- Author: Groueff, Stephane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: June 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0595092381
- Language: English
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A Good Night for Ghosts
$6.99 Add to cartMake story time a little spookier with the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time! Every visit to the magic tree house leads to a time-travel adventure!
Jack and Annie are on a mission to fin- Series: Magic Tree House (R) Merlin Mission #14
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0375856498
- Language: English
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The Red Coast: Radicalism and Anti-Radicalism in Southwest Washington
$24.95 Read moreThe Red Coast is a lively and readable informal history of the labor, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwest Washington State from the late nineteenth centu… [more below]
- Author: Goings, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 20 2019
- ISBN10: 087071967X
- Language: English
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Vienna Prelude
$18.99 Add to cartECPA Gold Medallion Award winner
Opening in 1936, the Zion Covenant series tells the courageous and compelling stories of those who risk everything to stand against the growing tide of Nazi terrorism… [more below]
- Series: Zion Covenant #1
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1414301073
- Language: English
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A Fable
$16.95 Read moreThis novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0307946770
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$6.95 Read moreIn 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), replied to th… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0486422453
- Language: English
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Who Was Alexander Graham Bell?
$6.99 Read moreDid you know that Bell’s amazing invention–the telephone–stemmed from his work on teaching the deaf? Both his mother and wife were deaf. Or, did you know that in later years he refused to have a tel… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Bader, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 31 2013
- ISBN10: 0448464608
- Language: English
