Chronological Period/1920's
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A Pale Horse
$18.99 Add to cartThe Great War never relinquished its hold on Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, leaving him haunted and isolated, unable to forget. In the spring of 1920, he’s dispatched to Berkshire to find a mis
- Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries #10
- Author: Todd, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 006167270X
- Language: English
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The Chaperone
$18.00 Add to cartSoon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton Abbey starring Elizabeth McGovern, The Chaperone is a New York Times-bestselling novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks… [more below]
- Author: Moriarty, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1594631433
- Language: English
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The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
$19.99 Add to cartA riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen.
Why did democracy fall apart so- Author: Hett, Benjamin Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1250210860
- Language: English
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Sweet Thunder
$17.00 Add to cartA beloved character brings the power of the press to 1920s Butte, Montana, in this latest from the best storyteller of the West
In the winter of 1920, a quirky bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butt- Series: Two Medicine Country
- Author: Doig, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 1594632766
- Language: English
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Who Was Annie Oakley?
$6.99 Add to cartYou want girl power? Meet Annie Oakley Born in 1860, she became one of the best-loved and most famous women of her generation. She amazed audiences all over the world with her sharpshooting, horse-ri… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Spinner, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 18 2002
- ISBN10: 0448424975
- Language: English
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Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness
$9.99 Add to cartThe beloved real-life story of a woman in the Alaskan wilderness, the children she taught, and the man she loved.
“From the time I’d been a girl, I’d been thrilled with the idea of living on a fronti- Author: Specht, Robert
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: July 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0553265962
- Language: English
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Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1921 Tulsa’s Greenwood District, known then as the nation’s “Black Wall Street,” was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year, a whi… [more below]
- Author: Krehbiel, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0806168714
- Language: English
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Jack Knight’s Brave Flight: How One Gutsy Pilot Saved the US Air Mail Service
$18.99 Read moreHigh-flying history is brought to life in this suspenseful story of an unknown and daring pilot named Jack Knight, who in 1921 flew his biplane straight into a blizzard over America’s heartland and sa… [more below]
- Author: Esbaum, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1684379814
- Language: English
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Uncle Jed’s Barbershop
$8.99 Read moreCoretta Scott King Award winner
A young girl’s beloved uncle is a talented barber without a shop who never gives up on his dream in this richly illustrated, stirring picture book. Everyone has a favor- Author: Mitchell, Margaree King
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0689819137
- Language: English
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A Test of Wills
$18.99 Add to cart“Todd has written a first novel that speaks out, urgently and compassionately, for a long-dead generation….A meticulously wrought puzzle.”
–New York Times Book Review“An intricately plotted mystery.
- Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries #1
- Author: Todd, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0062091611
- Language: English
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Born to Fly: The First Women’s Air Race Across America
$22.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin, Born to Fly: The First Women’s Air Race Across America is the gripping true story of the fearless women pilots who a
- Author: Sheinkin, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1626721300
- Language: English
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Women of the Silk
$17.99 Add to cartIn Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk fact
- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0312099436
- Language: English
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Paper Son: Lee’s Journey to America
$17.99 Read moreIn 1926, 12-year-old Fu Lee lives with his grandparents in a small village in China. He lives with his grandparents because his parents are dead. It is a difficult life but made easier by the love Lee… [more below]
- Series: Tales of Young Americans
- Author: James, Helen Foster
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1585368334
- Language: English
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City
$21.99 Read moreFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin comes the stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon
In 1927, Henry Ford, the- Author: Grandin, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429622
- Language: English
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
$21.99 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America’s schools
In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the settin- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646037
- Language: English
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Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse
$19.95 Add to cartOne small step for a mouse; one giant leap for aviation.
These are dark times . . . for a small mouse. A new invention–the mechanical mousetrap–has caused all the mice but one to flee to America, t- Series: Mouse Adventures
- Author: Kuhlmann, Torben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0735841675
- Language: English
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The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
$23.00 Add to cartWinner of the Caughey Western History Prize
Winner of the Robert G. Athearn Award
Winner of the Lawrence W. Levine Award
Winner of the TCU Texas Book Award
Winner of the NACCS Tejas Foco Nonfiction Book A- Author: Martinez, Monica Mu?oz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0674244826
- Language: English
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Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin
$39.95 Add to cartWhen Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin first appeared in the fall of 2000, it inspired wide acclaim and multiple printings.
This sourcebook of hundreds of rare visual delights from t… [more below]- Author: Gordon, Mel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0922915962
- Language: English
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A Room of One’s Own: The Feminist Classic
$13.00 Add to cartDiscover Virginia Woolf’s landmark essay on women’s struggle for independence and creative opportunity
A Room of One’s Own is one of Virginia Woolf’s most influential works and widely recognized for i
- Series: Capstone Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0857088823
- Language: English
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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
$27.00 Add to cartA magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world
The product of a decade of intrepid research, Stalin is a landmark achievement. Stephen Kotkin offers a biogr- Author: Kotkin, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: October 13, 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127861
- Language: English
