Chronological Period/1900-1949
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The Great Houdini: World Famous Magician & Escape Artist
$5.99 Add to cartHarry Houdini was a great escape artist, but perhaps his greatest trick was becoming the famous magician that we have come to know. As a child, Houdini worked hard–and even quit school–to help suppo… [more below]
- Series: Step Into Reading
- Author: Kulling, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0679885730
- Language: English
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Henri Matisse
$9.95 Read moreHenri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Joan Mir and Andy Warhol each significantly shaped the development of art in the twentieth century. These Modern masters are the subjects of four small books, the first … [more below]
- Author: Matisse, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0870707248
- Language: English
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Lucy Maud Montgomery: Creator of Anne of Green Gables
$4.99 Read more- Series: I Can Read!: Level 1
- Author: Howden, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1443460265
- Language: English
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Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa
$24.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1974, and edited by John Henrik Clarke with the aid of Amy Jacques Garvey, this is a superbly edited collection of writings reflecting the life and work of Marcus Garvey. Included a… [more below]
- Author: Clarke, John Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 525
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 1574780476
- Language: English
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The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto – 75th Anniversary Edition
$16.99 Read moreThe first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw Ghetto
Mary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to- Author: Berg, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1786073404
- Language: English
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Under Western Eyes
$11.95 Add to cartUnder Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such as the defensibility of terrori… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552371
- Language: English
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When Everybody Wore a Hat
$9.99 Read moreThis is the story of when I was a boy, almost 100 years ago, when fire engines were pulled by horses, boys did not play with girls, kids went to libraries for books, there was no TV, you could see a m
- Series: Rise and Shine
- Author: Steig, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0060097027
- Language: English
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Trotsky: A Biography
$30.00 Read moreRobert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.
Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing an- Author: Service, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: October 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0674062256
- Language: English
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A Year Down Yonder
$18.99 Read moreWinner of the Newbery Medal
“Peck charms readers once again with this entertaining sequel to A Long Way from Chicago“–School Library Journal (starred review) It was within the pages of Richard Peck‘s- Author: Peck, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0803725183
- Language: English
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. – With a new Afterword – “Desert Queen…plucks Gertrude … [more below]
- Author: Wallach, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400096197
- Language: English
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George Washington Carver
$4.99 Add to cartTake a bite into the fascinating history of peanut butter and the man who invented it. Through leveled text and engaging photos, kids meet George Washington Carver and learn about his important work w… [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Jazynka, Kitson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1426322852
- Language: English
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The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
$30.00 Read moreHow six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II
“A damning indictment. . . . The parallels with today’s right-wing media, on both sides of the Atlantic, are u- Author: Olmsted, Kathryn S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0300256426
- Language: English
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The Bottoms
$16.95 Add to cartThis Edgar Award winner is “equal parts morality tale and page-turning thriller” (Denver Post)–classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and most affecting form, with echoes of William Fa… [more below]
- Author: Lansdale, Joe R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0307475263
- Language: English
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John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman
$40.00 Read moreTHE DEFINITIVE SINGLE-VOLUME BIOGRAPHY Robert Skidelsky’s three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman’s life. Here, S… [more below]
- Author: Skidelsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036157
- Language: English
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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
$19.00 Read more#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s
In this “overpowering and beautiful nov- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulks, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 02 1997
- ISBN10: 0679776818
- Language: English
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The Speakeasies of 1932: Over 400 Drawings, Paintings & Photos
$32.95 Read moreIntroduction by Pete Hamill. When Manhattan joints were hung out to dry, the Booze-oizie sniveled, then pirouetted on their stools to find reasonably palatable Speakeasy facsimiles. These Prohibition … [more below]
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Hirschfeld, Al
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1557835187
- Language: English
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920-26 (Loa #353)
$35.00 Read moreLibrary of America’s authoritative Fitzgerald edition continues with his greatest masterpiece and best story collection of stories in newly edited texts
This long-awaited second volume of Library of A- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 756
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537148
- Language: English
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The Private Journals of Edvard Munch: We Are Flames Which Pour Out of the Earth
$29.95 Read moreScandinavia’s most famous painter, the Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863-1944), is probably best known for his painting The Scream, a universally recognized icon of terror and despair. (A version was stole… [more below]
- Author: Munch, Edvard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: July 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0299198146
- Language: English
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Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life
$17.95 Add to cartA vibrant, deeply human portrait of a woman dedicated to fierce protest against the tyranny of institutions over individuals, by the celebrated author
Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Gornick, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 030019823X
- Language: English
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Virginia Woolf
$26.00 Read more“A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
While Virginia Woolf–one of our century’s most brilliant and- Author: Lee, Hermione
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: October 05 1999
- ISBN10: 0375701362
- Language: English
