Chronological Period/1900-1949
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Madame Curie: A Biography
$21.99 Add to cartMarie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide fame, and indeed, one of the great scientists of this century. Winner of two Nobel Prizes (for physics in 1903 and for… [more below]
- Series: Da Capo Series in Science
- Author: Curie, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: April 2, 2001
- ISBN10: 0306810387
- Language: English
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Ss-GB
$17.00 Add to cart“Deighton’s best book . . . an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation.”–The New York Times Book Review
It is 1941 and Germany has won the war… [more below]
- Author: Deighton, Len
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161073
- Language: English
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I Capture the Castle
$19.00 Read moreOne of the 20th century’s most beloved novels is still winning hearts, Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle!
“This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I’ve ever met.” — J.K. Rowling, author- Author: Smith, Dodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0312201656
- Language: English
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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
$6.99 Add to cartOne day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edi… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Frith, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0448437651
- Language: English
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American Murderer: The Parasite That Haunted the South
$24.99 Add to cartIncluded on NPR’s 2022 “Books We Love” List
What made workers in the American South so tired and feeble during the 1
Finalist, 2023 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
ALSC Notable Children’s Book- Series: Medical Fiascoes
- Author: Jarrow, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 27, 2022
- ISBN10: 168437815X
- Language: English
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To Have and Have Not
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of the best writers in American literature, a classic novel about smuggling, intrigue, and love.To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into ru… [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 20 1996
- ISBN10: 0684818981
- Language: English
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Mein Kampf: The New Ford Translation
$39.95 Add to cartFor the first time in 65 years, a modern, easy to understand, truly complete, accurate and uncensored edition of Mein Kampf has been released which reveals more than any past translation. Older transl… [more below]
- Author: Hitler, Adolf
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 25, 2009
- ISBN10: 0977476073
- Language: English
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A Year with Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke
$26.99 Add to cartOne of the most beloved poets of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke is widely celebrated for his depth of insight and timeless relevance. He has influenced generations of writers with his class
- Author: Barrows, Anita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 17 2009
- ISBN10: 006185400X
- Language: English
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Who Was Babe Ruth?
$6.99 Read moreJust in time for baseball season
Babe Ruth came from a poor Baltimore family and, as a kid, he was a handful. It was at a reform school that Babe discovered his talent for baseball, and by the age o- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Holub, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0448455862
- Language: English
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I Am Albert Einstein
$9.99 Read more“We can all be heroes” is the message entertainingly told in this New York Times Bestselling picture-book biography series, with this one highlighting Albert Einstein
Each picture book in this series i… [more below]- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0593619161
- Language: English
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Summer
$12.95 Add to cart‘Can’t you see that I don’t care what anybody says?’
Charity Royall lives in the small New England village of North Dormer. Born among outcasts from the Mountain beyond, she is rescued by lawyer Roya- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198709986
- Language: English
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All the King’s Men: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
$19.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
The classic, ever-relevant story of a backcountry lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power–American literature’s definitive political novel.
All the King’s M… [more below]
- Author: Warren, Robert Penn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 1, 1996
- ISBN10: 0156004801
- Language: English
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Mein Kampf: The New Ford Translation
$34.95 Add to cartFor the first time in 65 years, a modern, easy to understand, truly complete and uncensored edition of Mein Kampf has been released which reveals more than any past translation. This hardcover book is… [more below]
- Author: Hitler, Adolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 28, 2009
- ISBN10: 0984158421
- Language: English
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Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
$20.00 Add to cartIn the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empi
- Author: Tharoor, Shashi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 8, 2018
- ISBN10: 1947534300
- Language: English
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Address Unknown
$16.99 Read moreA rediscovered classic and international bestseller that recounts the gripping tale of a friendship destroyed at the hands of Nazi Germany
In this searing novel, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor brings vivid
- Author: Taylor, Kathrine Kressmann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 29, 2021
- ISBN10: 0063068494
- Language: English
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Ellis Island (a True Book: American History)
$6.95 Read moreLearn why immigrants came to the United States and the establishment of Ellis Island Immigration Station.
A True Book: American History series allows readers to experience the earliest moments in Ameri… [more below]
- Series: A True Book: American History
- Author: Landau, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0531147819
- Language: English
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The Sojourn
$17.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE WINNERA stirring tale of brotherhood, coming of age, and survival during World War I
The Sojourn is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted f
- Author: Krivak, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: 19-Apr-11
- ISBN10: 1934137340
- Language: English
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Ragtime
$18.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the s- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Doctorow, E. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0812978188
- Language: English
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One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
$10.99 Add to cart“One Last Word is the work of a master poet.” – Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover
From the New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Nikki Gri- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1681196026
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast
$18.99 Add to cart“There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other.” –Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable FeastErnest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in… [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 29 1996
- ISBN10: 068482499X
- Language: English
