Chronological Period/1930's
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The Great Depression: A Diary
$19.99 Add to cartWhen the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set dow… [more below]
- Author: Roth, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31, 2010
- ISBN10: 1586489011
- Language: English
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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
$18.99 Add to cartTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists.
One of the most important stories of World W
- Author: Batalion, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0062874225
- Language: English
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
$23.00 Add to cart“When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench a… [more below]
- Author: Mayer, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 022652583X
- Language: English
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Tragedy in Tin Can Holler
$22.99 Add to cart“Tragedy in Tin Can Holler” is a captivating must read true story of a family’s past transgressions revealing a serial killer during the great depression, incest and child abuse, lies and betrayals an… [more below]
- Author: Mowery, Rozetta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 07 2007
- ISBN10: 0977968065
- Language: English
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Millie and the Great Drought: A Dust Bowl Survival Story
$9.99 Add to cartIn 1935, dust storms are sweeping across the southern plains of United States, including Oklahoma. Twelve-year-old Millie Horn is worried about her family’s survival. The Dust Bowl is getting worse, a… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Deen, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1666340790
- Language: English
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Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team
$19.99 Add to cart“A wonderful illustration of what a great game baseball is and how it brings families together. Brothers at Bat is a story any baseball fan will enjoy and one that we all should know.” –Hall of Famer
- Author: Vernick, Audrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 3, 2012
- ISBN10: 0547385579
- Language: English
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Evidence Not Seen: A Woman’s Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II
$18.99 Add to cartThe True Story of One Woman’s Triumph of Faith
Newlywed American missionary Darlene Deibler Rose survived four years in a notorious Japanese prison camp set deep in the jungles of New Guinea. Thinking
- Author: Rose, Darlene Deibler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0060670207
- Language: English
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Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States
$20.99 Add to cart- Author: Hart, Bradley W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 2, 2018
- ISBN10: 1250871883
- Language: English
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The Gardener: (Caldecott Honor Book)
$9.99 Read moreThe Gardener is a 1997 New York Times Book Review Notable Children’s Book of the Year and a 1998 Caldecott Honor Book.
From the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The Library.
Lydia Grace F- Author: Stewart, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 031236749X
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
$18.99 Add to cartBefore he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on England’s working class — an investigation that led him to examine democratic soci… [more below]
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 1972
- ISBN10: 0156767503
- Language: English
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Turtle in Paradise: The Graphic Novel
$12.99 Add to cartA graphic novel adaptation of the beloved, bestselling Newbery Honor-winning novel.
Eleven-year-old Turtle is smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After a- Author: Holm, Jennifer L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0593126300
- Language: English
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Birds of a Feather
$18.95 Add to cartThe second Maisie Dobbs mystery
Jacqueline Winspear’s marvelous debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from around the world and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of l- Series: Maisie Dobbs #2
- Author: Winspear, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1616956321
- Language: English
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I Capture the Castle
$19.00 Read moreOne 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: March 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0312201656
- Language: English
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For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Hemingway Library Edition
$32.00 Add to cartPresented by Hemingway’s grandson Se n Hemingway, with a personal foreword by the author’s son Patrick Hemingway, this new enhanced Library Edition of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpiece about an American … [more below]
- Series: Hemingway Library Edition
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 16, 2019
- ISBN10: 1476787778
- Language: English
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Moon Over Manifest: (Newbery Medal Winner)
$8.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2011 Newbery Award.
The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen only in Gideon’s stories: Manifest–A Town… [more below]- Author: Vanderpool, Clare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0375858296
- Language: English
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Bud, Not Buddy
$17.99 Add to cartHit the road with Bud in this Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy on a journey to find his father–from Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott King-… [more below]
- Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0385323069
- Language: English
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
$27.99 Add to cart“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 0063068532
- Language: English
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The Samurai’s Garden
$18.00 Add to cartThe daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Gail Tsukiyama’s The Samurai’s Garden uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for this extraordinary stor
- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0312144075
- Language: English
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To Have and Have Not
$18.00 Add to cartFrom 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 honest man who is forced into ru… [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 20 1996
- ISBN10: 0684818981
- Language: English
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The Grapes of Wrath
$21.00 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized–and sometimes outraged–millions of readers.
One of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years First p- Series: Critical Library, Viking
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0142000663
- Language: English
