Chronological Period/1930's
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The Magic Journey
$34.99 Add to cartSpanning forty years, the second book in John Nichols’s New Mexico trilogy, The Magic Journey, tells the tale of how relentless progress transformed a rural backwater into a boomtown.
Boom times came- Series: New Mexico Trilogy #2
- Author: Nichols, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0805063390
- Language: English
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A Walk on the Wild Side
$19.00 Add to cartWith its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, Nelson Algren’s A Walk in the Wild Side has found a plac
- Author: Algren, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 24 1998
- ISBN10: 0374525323
- Language: English
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An Expert in Murder: A Josephine Tey Mystery
$17.99 Add to cartMarch 1934. Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her play Richard of Bordeaux, the surprise hit of the season, with pacifist themes that reso
- Series: Josephine Tey Mysteries #1
- Author: Upson, Nicola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 16 2009
- ISBN10: 006145155X
- Language: English
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
$16.99 Add to cart- Series: Harvest in Translation
- Author: Saramago, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0156996936
- Language: English
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Reflections in a Golden Eye
$12.99 Add to cartA new trade paperback edition of McCullers’ second novel, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, immortalized by the 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and John Houston.
Set on a Southern army … [more below]- Author: McCullers, Carson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 08 2000
- ISBN10: 0618084754
- Language: English
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The Midwife of Hope River
$19.99 Add to cartA remarkable new voice in American fiction enchants readers with a moving and uplifting novel that celebrates the miracle of life. In The Midwife of Hope River, first-time novelist Patricia Harmon tra
- Series: Hope River #1
- Author: Harman, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 28, 2012
- ISBN10: 0062198890
- Language: English
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Guests on Earth
$21.99 Add to cart“Reading Lee Smith ranks among the great pleasures of American fiction . . . Gives evidence again of the grace and insight that distinguish her work.” –Robert Stone, author of Death of the Black-Hair
- Author: Smith, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1616203803
- Language: English
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American Noir: 11 Classic Crime Novels of the 1930s, 40s, & 50s: A Library of America Boxed Set
$85.00 Add to cartCollects:
CRIME NOVELS: AMERICAN NOIR OF THE 1930s & 40s
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy
Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson
The Big Clock by … [more below]- Author: Polito, Robert
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 1882
- Publish Date: April 12 2012
- ISBN10: 1598531530
- 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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The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life
$18.99 Add to cartIn the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah’s windswept shore, two legends of the game–Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen–meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown
- Author: Pressfield, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 1996
- ISBN10: 038072751X
- Language: English
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Anna in the Tropics
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
. . . there are many kinds of light.
The light of fires. The light of stars.
The light that reflects off rivers.
Light that penetrates through cracks.
Then ther- Author: Cruz, Nilo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1559362324
- Language: English
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The Nantucket Sea Monster: A Fake News Story
$11.99 Add to cartJUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION
2018 National Council of Teacher’s of English (NCTE) Notable Children’s Book in Language Arts
A NON-POLITICAL FAKE NEWS STORY FOR KIDS: EXAMPLE OF 1ST AMENDMENT FREE PRESS
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1629440833
- Language: English
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Risky Chance
$7.99 Add to cartFor all lovers of horses and history, it’s the next book in the popular Horse Diaries series. Born in California at the start of the Great Depression, Risky Chance is a gray thoroughbred who was born … [more below]
- Series: Horse Diaries (Quality) #7
- Author: Hart, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 037586833X
- Language: English
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A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
$7.99 Add to cartEleven-year-old Margo Bandini has never been afraid of anything. Her life in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, with Mama and Papa and her little brother, Charlie, has always felt secure. But it’s 1933, and the… [more below]
- Author: Coco De Young, C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 08 2000
- ISBN10: 0440415292
- Language: English
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Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere
$18.99 Add to cartThe suspenseful, little-known true story of two determined pioneers who made the first dive into the deep ocean.
On June 6, 1930, engineer Otis Barton and explorer Will Beebe dove into the ocean insi- Author: Rosenstock, Barb
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0316393827
- Language: English
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The Natural
$18.00 Add to cartThe classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new edition
Introduction by Kevin Baker The Natural, Bernard Malamud’s first novel, published in 1952, is also t- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Malamud, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 231
- Publish Date: July 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0374502005
- Language: English
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
$32.00 Add to cart“Larson is a marvelous writer…superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”–New York Times Book Review
Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0307408841
- Language: English
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Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartAn “exemplary” (Timothy Snyder, New York Times) history of the onset of World War II
For Americans, World War II began in December 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Europe, the war began
- Author: Moorhouse, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1541602617
- Language: English
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The Second World War
$29.99 Add to cartA masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor.
Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world’s- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0316023752
- Language: English
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Daniel’s Story
$8.99 Add to cartDaniel barely remembers leading a normal life before the Nazis came to power in 1933. He can still picture once being happy and safe, but memories of those days are fading as he and his family face th… [more below]
- Author: Matas, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0590465880
- Language: English
