Chronological Period/1900-1949
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Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire
$22.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power—and how its legacies shape our world today—told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine.
“The book is far more- Author: Katz, Jonathan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1250135591
- Language: English
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The Secret Garden
$19.99 Add to cartCelebrate an unforgettable classic with this gorgeously repackaged edition, featuring the timeless art of Tasha Tudor. Just in time for the movie adaptation starring Colin Firth and Julie Walters
This
- Author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 03, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062981951
- Language: English
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Who Was Amelia Earhart?
$6.99 Add to cartAmelia Earhart was a woman of many “firsts.” In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1935, she also became the first woman to fly across the Pacific. From her ear… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Jerome, Kate Boehm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0448428563
- Language: English
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
$22.99 Add to cartThe National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: 15-Oct-78
- ISBN10: 0671244094
- Language: English
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Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
$19.00 Add to cartThe fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad–one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell… [more below]
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1400049474
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary
$18.95 Add to cartA fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy.
German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s (1875-1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for- Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1611806860
- Language: English
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Who Was Anne Frank?
$6.99 Add to cartIn her amazing diary, Anne Frank revealed the challenges and dreams common for any young girl. But Hitler brought her childhood to an end and forced her and her family into hiding. Who Was Anne Frank?
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Abramson, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 18, 2007
- ISBN10: 0448444828
- Language: English
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A Child’s Christmas in Wales
$9.95 Add to cartThis gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old for over half a century and is now a modern classic. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth cent
- Author: Thomas, Dylan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231879
- Language: English
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
$24.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – TIME Magazine‘s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 – New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 – NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 – Economist Book of the Year – SELF.com’
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 08, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062748203
- Language: English
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A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic
$18.99 Add to cartThe classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick
First published in 1955, A Night to Remember remains a- Series: Holt Paperback
- Author: Lord, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 07, 2005
- ISBN10: 0805077642
- Language: English
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Ask the Dust
$18.00 Add to cartAsk the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the e
- Author: Fante, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 07, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060822554
- Language: English
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Tender is the Night
$21.00 Add to cartA modern classic, this edition has been restored by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III and features a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s great-granddaughter Blake Hazard and a new introduction by b… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 01 1995
- ISBN10: 068480154X
- Language: English
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Survival in Auschwitz
$17.99 Add to cartThe true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a “true work of art, thi… [more below]
- Author: Levi, Primo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0684826801
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
$22.99 Add to cart“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time
Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn’s entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain fo
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: August 07, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253723
- Language: English
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Wisconsin Death Trip
$34.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 191
- Series: Wisconsin
- Author: Lesy, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0826321933
- Language: English
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Origins of Totalitarianism
$24.99 Read moreHannah Arendt’s definitive work on totalitarianism–an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history–now with a new introduction by Anne Applebaum
Hannah Arendt’s definitive
- Series: Harvest Book #0244
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 21, 1973
- ISBN10: 0156701537
- Language: English
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The Buddha in the Attic
$16.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – PEN/FAULKER AWARD WINNER – The acclaimed author of The Swimmers and When the Emperor Was Divine tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “… [more below]
- Series: Pen/Faulkner Award – Fiction
- Author: Otsuka, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 20, 2012
- ISBN10: 0307744426
- Language: English
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Snowflake Bentley: A Caldecott Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartIn this Caldecott Medal-winning picture book, the true story of Wilson Bentley and his singular fascination with snowflakes is rendered in rich prose and gorgeous artwork, perfect for the holidays, sn
- Author: Martin, Jacqueline Briggs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547248296
- Language: English
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East of Eden
$23.00 Add to cartA masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “t- Series: Oprah’s Classics Book Club Selections
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0142004235
- Language: English
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Bauhaus
$20.00 Read moreIn a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school develope
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Droste, Magdalena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560143
- Language: English
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