Chronological Period/1900-1949
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War
$34.99 Add to cartThe First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in … [more below]
- Series: Oxford Illustrated History
- Author: Strachan, Hew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198743122
- Language: English
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Stalingrad
$25.00 Add to cartThe Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day a… [more below]
- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140284583
- Language: English
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Wilbur and Orville Wright: Young Fliers
$8.99 Read moreWilbur and Orville Wright: Young Fliers is the next installment in the Childhood of Famous Americans series.
From Augusta Stevenson, Wilbur and Orville Wright: Young Fliers this lively, inspiring, and- Series: Childhood of Famous Americans (Paperback)
- Author: Stevenson, Augusta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 31 1986
- ISBN10: 0020421702
- Language: English
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Listening for Lions
$9.99 Add to cartA critically acclaimed historical novel “that roars” (Kliatt), from the author of the National Book Award-winning novel Homeless Bird.
Africa is the only home Rachel Sheridan has ever known. But when
- Author: Whelan, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 006058176X
- Language: English
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
$19.99 Add to cart“Involves us intensely in a world that no longer exists–that of free Tibet. . . . Fervent and admirably unsentimental . . . [David-Neel] had to exercise the utmost ingenuity to survive.”– New York T
- Author: David-Neel, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0060596554
- Language: English
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When Washington Was in Vogue: A Love Story
$17.99 Add to cartNearly lost after its anonymous publication in 1926 and only recently rediscovered, When Washington Was in Vogue is an acclaimed love story written and set during the Harlem Renaissance. When bobbed-h
- Author: Williams, Edward Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0060555467
- Language: English
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The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel
$11.99 Add to cartMasterfully told and as suspenseful as it is haunting, The Green Mile is Stephen King’s classic #1 New York Times bestselling dramatic serial novel and inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starrin… [more below]
- Author: King, Stephen
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1501160443
- Language: English
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We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
$21.99 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestselling classic, Caldecott Medal-winning artist Kadir Nelson tells the incredible story of baseball’s unsung heroes — perfect for celebrating the centennial anniversary of … [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Kadir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0786808322
- Language: English
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A Child’s Christmas in Wales: Gift Edition
$14.99 Read moreThe enduring holiday classic, lavishly illustrated by multiple Caldecott Medalist Trina Schart Hyman, is now available in a gift edition for a new generation of readers.
This nostalgic recollection o- Author: Thomas, Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0823438708
- Language: English
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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
$22.99 Add to cartThe award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the cl- Author: Chauncey, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1541699211
- Language: English
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Ella of All-Of-A-Kind Family
$12.95 Read moreIn the fifth and final book in the All-of-A-Kind Family series, Ella, the eldest child of the family, has been offered a stage career by a Broadway talent scout. While Ella wants to sing more than any
- Author: Taylor, Sydney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1939601266
- Language: English
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
$23.00 Add to cart“She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far
- Series: Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies
- Author: Wells, Ida B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 022669142X
- Language: English
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Canoeing with the Cree: 75th Anniversary Edition
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1930 two novice paddlers–Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port–launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious summer-long journey from Minneapoli… [more below]
- Author: Sevareid, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0873515331
- Language: English
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Cold Sassy Tree
$19.99 Add to cartThe one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around–fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he’s aiming to marry the young and frec
- Author: Burns, Olive Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 04, 2007
- ISBN10: 0618919716
- Language: English
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A Month in the Country
$15.95 Add to cartA short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter–and fully embrace–normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village.
In J. L. Carr’s deeply charged poeti- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Carr, J. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 31 2000
- ISBN10: 0940322471
- Language: English
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
$25.00 Add to cartNational Bestseller
New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award
of the Council on Foreign Rela- Author: MacMillan, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0375760520
- Language: English
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Maria Montessori
$15.99 Add to cart*Celebrate Italian Heritage Read (New York Public Library)*
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life o- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #23
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1786037556
- Language: English
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Shakespeare and Company, New Edition
$24.95 Add to cartSylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighte
- Author: Beach, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0803260970
- Language: English
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How to Trade In Stocks
$24.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: March 2, 2022
- ISBN10: 1638232997
- Language: English
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Brown Girl, Brownstones
$12.95 Add to cartAn unforgettable novel, written with pride and anger, with rebellion and tears. — Herald Tribune Book ReviewPassionate, compelling . . . an impressive accomplishment. — Saturday ReviewRemarkable for… [more below]
- Author: Marshall, Paule
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0486468321
- Language: English
