Chronological Period/1930's
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A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
$19.99 Add to cartThomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A Lucky Child. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 afte… [more below]
- Author: Buergenthal, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0316339180
- Language: English
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The Great Crash 1929
$16.99 Add to cartJohn Kenneth Galbraith’s classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse.
Arguing that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, Galbraith notes that … [more below]
- Author: Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547248164
- Language: English
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Essays on the Great Depression
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize-winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic eco
- Author: Bernanke, Ben S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0691254133
- Language: English
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The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel
$24.00 Add to cart“Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic. . . . She plucks the mysteries from people’s lives and works these dark narrative threads into Appalachian legends older than the
- Series: Ballad Novels #8
- Author: McCrumb, Sharyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0312573626
- Language: English
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The Farming of Bones
$17.00 Read moreIt is 1937 and Amabelle D sir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastien, a cane
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1616953497
- Language: English
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The Language of Threads
$22.00 Add to cartReaders of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel t
- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 21 2000
- ISBN10: 0312267568
- Language: English
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I Capture the Castle
$25.00 Add to cartOne of the 20th century’s most beloved novels is still winning hearts, Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle!
“This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I’ve ever met.” — J.K. Rowling, author- Author: Smith, Dodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031231616X
- Language: English
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Thrones, Dominations: A Lord Peter Wimsey / Harriet Vane Mystery
$24.00 Add to cartIn 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers –considered one of the best mystery writers of the Golden Age–abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a copy of the unfinished manuscript
- Series: Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries with Harriet Vane #1
- Author: Sayers, Dorothy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1250017432
- Language: English
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The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I: A Novel, Volume 1
$28.95 Add to cartA major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. Th… [more below]
- Author: Weiss, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 22 2005
- ISBN10: 0822335468
- Language: English
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The Hot Kid
$19.99 Add to cartThe undisputed master of the crime novel strikes again with this powerfully entertaining story, set in 1920s Oklahoma, that introduces one of the toughest lawmen ever to come out of the west. . . .
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- Author: Leonard, Elmore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0062267272
- Language: English
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Harpsong: Volume 1
$21.95 Add to cartA love story about Dust Bowl heroes who didn’t leave for California
Harlan Singer, a harmonica-playing troubadour, shows up in the Thompson family’s yard one morning. He steals their hearts with his m
- Series: Oklahoma Stories & Storytellers #1
- Author: Askew, Rilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 30 2009
- ISBN10: 806139285
- Language: English
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A Lily of the Field: An Inspector Troy Novel
$17.00 Add to cartSpanning the tumultuous years 1934 to 1948, John Lawton’s A Lily of the Field is a brilliant historical thriller from a master of the form. The book follows two characters–M馥acute;ret Voytek, a tal… [more below]
- Series: Inspector Troy Novels #7
- Author: Lawton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0802145469
- Language: English
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Topper
$15.00 Add to cart” Thorne Smith] created the modern American ghost. A ghost with style and wit. A ghost that haunts us still.”
Thorne Smith is a master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee. To
–The New York Times- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Smith, Thorne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 02 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753052
- Language: English
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China Dolls
$27.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A fascinating portrait of life as a Chinese American woman in the 1930s and ’40s.”–The New York Times Book Review
“Superb . . . This emotional, informative and brilliant … [more below]- Author: See, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 081299289X
- Language: English
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New Mercies
$24.00 Add to cartNatchez, Mississippi, in 1933 is a place suspended in time. The silver and china is still dented and cracked from Yankee invaders. And the houses have names…and memories. Nora Bondurant is running a
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0312336209
- Language: English
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House of Earth
$18.99 Add to cartFinished in 1947 and lost to readers until now, House of Earth is legendary folk singer and American icon Woody Guthrie’s only finished novel. A powerful portrait of Dust Bowl America, it’s the story
- Author: Guthrie, Woody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0062248405
- Language: English
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Prayers for Sale
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the critically acclaimed author of Tallgrass comes a powerful novel about an unlikely friendship between two women and the secrets they’ve kept in order to survive life in a rugged Colorado minin
- Series: Reading Group Gold
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312385196
- Language: English
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The Woman At Otowi Crossing
$21.95 Add to cartBased on the real life of Edith Warner, who ran a tearoom at Otowi Crossing, just below Los Alamos, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the story of Helen Chalmer, a person in tune with her adopted environ
- Author: Waters, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: August 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0804008930
- Language: English
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To Have and Have Not
$27.00 Add to cartA Scribner Classics Edition
From one of the best writers in American literature, a classic novel about smuggling, intrigue, and love. To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an hon- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0684859238
- Language: English
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Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
$18.99 Add to cartGeorge Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected–and illuminated–the fraught times in which he lived. “As soo
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0156033135
- Language: English
