Chronological Period/1930's
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
$24.99 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Hemingway and George Orwell: A tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a nob… [more below]
- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0544947231
- Language: English
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That Book Woman
$18.99 Add to cartAn exquisitely illustrated paean to everyone who struggles to learn how to read, and to everyone who won’t give up on them.
Cal is not the readin’ type. Living way high up in the Appalachian Mountains- Author: Henson, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 07 2008
- ISBN10: 1416908129
- Language: English
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Nazi Germany: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAny consideration of the 20th century would be incomplete without a discussion of Nazi Germany, an extraordinary regime which dominated European history for 12 years, and left a legacy that still echo… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Caplan, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198706952
- Language: English
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Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
$27.95 Read moreThe 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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The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust
$29.95 Add to cartBased on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration’s fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff d
- Author: Medoff, Rafael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 827615191
- Language: English
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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
$26.00 Add to cart” The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”–Chicago Sun-Times
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise- Series: Modern Library War
- Author: Toland, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968581
- Language: English
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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
$23.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pritzker Prize for Military History
A New York Times Notable Book
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0307475530
- Language: English
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War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier
$14.99 Add to cartUS Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler collected an award cabinet full of medals for his battlefield bravery. But perhaps his bravest act of all was to declare, after his retirement in the early… [more below]
- Author: Butler, Smedley Darlington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 1510704272
- Language: English
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
$24.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
“The Good War“ is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian.- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1565843436
- Language: English
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Young Whit and the Thieves of Barrymore
$16.99 Read moreIn Young Whit and the Thieves of Barrymore, the third book in the series, Johnny’s family adjusts to his stepmother Fiona’s blindness due to a riding accident. Johnny and his father, Harold, also disc… [more below]
- Series: Young Whit #3
- Author: Lollar, Phil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 158997154X
- Language: English
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Todos Iguales / All Equal: Un Corrido de Lemon Grove / A Ballad of Lemon Grove
$20.95 Read moreThe empowering true story of the 1931 Lemon Grove Incident, in which Mexican families in southern California won the first Mexican American school desegregation case in US history.
Twelve-year-old Robe
- Author: Hale, Christy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0892394277
- Language: Spanish
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The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui’s Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers.
In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of- Author: Checkoway, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 21 2016
- ISBN10: 1455523453
- Language: English
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Messenger of Truth: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
$18.99 Add to cartMaisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist–and World War I veteran–in the fourth entry in the bestselling series from Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth.
London, 1- Series: Maisie Dobbs Mysteries #4
- Author: Winspear, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 12 2007
- ISBN10: 0312426852
- Language: English
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Ruth and the Night of Broken Glass: A World War II Survival Story
$9.99 Read moreIn the late summer and early fall of 1938, ten-year-old Ruth Block, along with her father, mother, and best friend, Miriam, must navigate the increasing pressure placed on the Jewish population in Fra… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Bernay, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 149658449X
- Language: English
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Young Whit and the Shroud of Secrecy
$16.99 Add to cartThe backstory of John Avery Whittaker, the beloved patriarch of the Adventures in Odyssey audio dramas, continues with more intriguing mysteries and exciting action. Book 2 concerns a coffin previousl… [more below]
- Series: Young Whit #2
- Author: Arnold, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1589975855
- Language: English
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Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
$37.50 Read moreA sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II
“When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be dazzling.”–Ian W. To- Author: Kennedy, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 26, 2022
- ISBN10: 0300219172
- Language: English
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Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945
$17.99 Add to cartAn Economist Book of the Year
“A book that has long cried out to be written.” — Observer (UK), Books of the Year In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chi
A Financial Times Book of the Year- Author: Mitter, Rana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0544334507
- Language: English
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Lost Trail: Nine Days Alone in the Wilderness
$14.95 Add to cartDonn Fendler’s harrowing story of being lost in the Maine wilderness when he was just twelve, was made famous by the perennial best-seller, Lost on a Mountain in Maine. In Lost Trail, more than 70 yea… [more below]
- Author: Fendler, Donn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: December 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0892729457
- Language: English
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
$20.00 Add to cartThe “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected fore… [more below]
- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1982178531
- Language: English
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Green Hills of Africa
$30.00 Add to cartThe most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti–presented with archival material from the Hemingway Collecti… [more below]
- Series: Hemingway Library Edition
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1476787557
- Language: English
