Chronological Period/1920's
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
$16.95 Add to cartWhen a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles
- Author: Salisbury, Gay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393325709
- Language: English
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Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
$27.95 Add to cartThe definitive history of Weimar politics, culture, and society
Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and striki
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year- Author: Weitz, Eric D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0691183058
- Language: English
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Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition
$17.00 Add to cartWho, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic
orders? and even if one of them pressed me
suddenly to his heart: I’d be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginni- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0865476071
- Language: English
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A Monstrous Regiment of Women
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the Nero Wolfe Award
It is 1921 and Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes’s brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology–is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance- Series: Mary Russell Mystery #2
- Author: King, Laurie R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0312427379
- Language: English
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The Sun Also Rises
$30.00 Add to cartThe only authorized edition of Ernest Hemingway‘s first novel.
“The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, a- Series: Hemingway Library Edition
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1476739951
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
$27.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Published po- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1416591311
- Language: English
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Richard Wright and the Library Card
$10.95 Read moreThis is the true story of the renowned African American author Richard Wright and his determination to borrow books from the public library that turned him away because of his color.
As a young black m
- Author: Miller, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1880000881
- Language: English
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We Own the Sky
$18.99 Add to cartA thrilling historical adventure by the master of adventure himself, Rodman Philbrick.
It’s Maine, 1924, and the Ku Klux Klan is on the rise.
Davy and Jo Michaud have been recently orphaned. Taken in by
- Author: Philbrick, Rodman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1338736299
- Language: English
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The Curse of the Mummy: Uncovering Tutankhamun’s Tomb (Scholastic Focus)
$10.99 Add to cart- Author: Fleming, Candace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1338596632
- Language: English
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Race to Hawaii: The 1927 Dole Air Derby and the Thrilling First Flights That Opened the Pacific
$26.99 Read moreToday, a trip to Hawaii is a simple six-hour flight from the West Coast, but almost a century ago, it was a nerve-wracking and twenty-six-hour journey across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to H… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0912777257
- Language: English
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The Power of the Dog
$16.99 Add to cartNow an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage’s acclaimed Western is “a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place” (Boston G… [more below]
- Author: Savage, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0316610895
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby: The Only Authorized Edition
$28.00 Add to cartA true classic of twentieth-century literature–nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supr- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0684830426
- Language: English
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Lena and the Burning of Greenwood: A Tulsa Race Massacre Survival Story
$9.99 Read moreIn the early 1920s, the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the wealthiest Black community in the United States. But Tulsa is still a segregated city. “Black Wall Street” and white Tulsa are ver… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Smith, Nikki Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1666329444
- Language: English
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
$23.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Missis… [more below]
- Author: Barry, John M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 02 1998
- ISBN10: 0684840022
- Language: English
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Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold)
$19.99 Add to cartPura Belpr Award WinnerIRA Notable Book for a Global SocietyNew York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and SharingEsperanza thought she’d always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico–s… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Pam Munoz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0439120411
- Language: English
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The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in… [more below]
- Author: Abbott, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0451498631
- Language: English
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and A- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 431
- Publish Date: November 3, 2004
- ISBN10: 078688746X
- 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 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
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The Haunting of Maddy Clare
$19.00 Add to cartA woman of limited means and even less experience must confront a vengeful spirit in this haunting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Girls and The Sun Down Motel.
1920s En- Author: St James, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0451235681
- Language: English
