Chronological Period/1900-1949
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The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons
$19.99 Add to cartCelebrating the inventor of the Crayola crayon! This gloriously illustrated picture book biography tells the inspiring story of Edwin Binney, the inventor of one of the world’s most beloved toys. A pe… [more below]
- Author: Biebow, Natascha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 132886684X
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$12.95 Add to cartBorn in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human hear
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 17 1993
- ISBN10: 0393310396
- Language: English
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Snowflake Bentley: A Caldecott Award Winner
$18.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0395861624
- Language: English
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Bauhaus. Updated Edition
$25.00 Add to cartIn 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
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Droste, Magdalena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: January 04 2019
- ISBN10: 3836565544
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement
$19.99 Add to cartThe official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY” —Time
The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of fo
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 07, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253804
- Language: English
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The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel
$32.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling dramatic serial novel and inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film of the same name starring Tom Hanks, the “literary event” (Entertainment Weekly) of The Green Mile … [more below]
- Author: King, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 03 2000
- ISBN10: 0743210891
- Language: English
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Outlander
$35.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The first book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series.
One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s T- Series: Outlander #1
- Author: Gabaldon, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 01, 1991
- ISBN10: 0385302304
- Language: English
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George Washington Carver
$14.95 Add to cartOnly alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His Secrets. The amazing story of Geory W. Carver, slave birth, Iowa State graduate and Tuskegee Professor who revolutionized the economy of the s… [more below]
- Author: Federer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 01, 2002
- ISBN10: 096535573X
- Language: English
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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramic
An Economist Book of the Year
Costa Book Award Winner for Biography
Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)- Author: de Waal, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250811279
- Language: English
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Mein Kampf: Official Nazi English Translation
$29.95 Add to cartThis is the Official Nazi English Translation of Mein Kampf. It was recently rediscovered after all copies were thought to have been destroyed. This is one of the rarest Mein Kampf editions ever made … [more below]
- Author: Hitler, Adolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: April 22, 2009
- ISBN10: 097747609X
- Language: English
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East of Eden: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002)
$39.00 Read moreA masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Ed- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 601
- Publish Date: June 24 2003
- ISBN10: 0670033049
- Language: English
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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th Anniversary Edition
$27.00 Add to cartA special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time), featuring a new introdu
- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01, 1994
- ISBN10: 0385312083
- Language: English
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Code Talker
$22.00 Add to cartThe first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII.
His name wasn’t Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Def- Author: Nez, Chester
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0425247856
- Language: English
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Sex, Murder, & the Unwritten Law: Gender and Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal code seemed much too merciful to suit most southerners, wh
- Series: American Liberty & Justice
- Author: Neal, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: September 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0896726622
- Language: English
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The Street
$19.99 Add to cartWith a new introduction from New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones, The Street was Ann Petry’s first novel, originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork.
The Street tell
- Author: Petry, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 07, 2020
- ISBN10: 0358187540
- Language: English
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All Quiet on the Western Front
$18.00 Add to cartThe masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time–with an Oscar-winning film adaptation now streaming on Netflix.
“[Erich Maria Remar- Series: All Quiet on the Western Front #1
- Author: Remarque, Erich Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 29 1996
- ISBN10: 0449911497
- Language: English
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Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartA Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to surv- Author: McCourt, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 25 1999
- ISBN10: 068484267X
- Language: English
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
$17.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062748211
- Language: English
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
$19.99 Add to cartBeautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twenti
- Author: Hartman, Saidiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 393357627
- Language: English
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Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history–from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White Ci… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 11 2000
- ISBN10: 0375708278
- Language: English
