Chronological Period/1950-1999
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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
$35.00 Add to cartFrom one of America’s most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. By considering some of the president’s opinions, Wills comes to the controversial conclusion that Nixo
- Author: Wills, Garry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0618134328
- Language: English
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Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World’s Best Writers
$26.00 Add to cartWhen news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, wi… [more below]
- Author: Whitney, Joel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1944869131
- Language: English
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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon–And the Journey of a Generation
$22.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America’s most important musical artists–Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon–charts their lives as women at a magical moment in time. … [more below]
- Author: Weller, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0743491483
- Language: English
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More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
$22.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller
“The bright light shed by More Money Than God is particularly welcome. Mr. Mallaby . . . brings a keen sense of financial theory to his subject and a vivid narrative styl- Series: Council on Foreign Relations Books (Penguin Press)
- Author: Mallaby, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119419
- Language: English
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The Brompton: Engineering for Change
$30.00 Add to cartLightweight, compact, distinctively styled, and now, electric: The Brompton isn’t the only folding bicycle–or even the first. But everyone who has been on one will enthusiastically testify to its mar… [more below]
- Author: Butler-Adams, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 161519956X
- Language: English
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The New Breed
$10.99 Add to cartFrom the blistering jungles of Vietnam to the far-flung battlefields of the African Congo, they faced the turmoil of a new era. It was a different kind of war. But the courage and skill of these young… [more below]
- Series: Brotherhood of War (Brilliance) #7
- Author: Griffin, W. E. B.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0515092266
- Language: English
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The Smell of Apples
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times
Winner of the M-Net Award
Winner of The Eugene Marais Award
Winner of the CNA Literary Award
Winner of the Betty Trask Award- Author: Behr, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0312152094
- Language: English
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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
$27.95 Add to cartSet in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of youth and encounters with the concerns of early adulthood. Francis Doyle, Tim Sullivan, and their three closest fri… [more below]
- Author: Fuhrman, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 28 2001
- ISBN10: 0820323381
- Language: English
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The Wanderers
$15.95 Add to cartA teenage gang comes of age in the 1960s Bronx. Written when the author was twenty-four, this story was the basis for a major feature film.
- Author: Price, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0395977746
- Language: English
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
$30.99 Add to cartThe story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told — until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu’s remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creati
- Author: Hajdu, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0312428235
- Language: English
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Last of Her Kind
$26.99 Add to cart< I>The Last of Her Kind< /I> introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Barnard campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate, Ann Dray… [more below]
- Author: Nunez, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0312425945
- Language: English
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The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
$21.99 Add to cartCaney Paxton wanted his cafe to have the biggest and brightest sign in Eastern Oklahoma-the “opening soon” part was supposed to be just a removable, painted notice. But a fateful misunderstanding gave… [more below]
- Author: Letts, Billie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0446675059
- Language: English
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The Last Juror
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – In 1970, Willie Traynor comes to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old finds himself the ow… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0385339682
- Language: English
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The Millstone
$15.99 Add to cartMargaret Drabble’s affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman’s decision to become a mother.
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Drabble, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0156006197
- Language: English
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Music for Torching
$17.99 Add to cartA tour de force: A. M. Homes’s unforgettable New Yorker story unfolds into a fiercely entertaining novel of marriage, family, and the American dream.
In a tale that unfolds over the course of one week
- Author: Homes, A. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 05 2000
- ISBN10: 068817762X
- Language: English
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The Ground Beneath Her Feet
$38.99 Add to cartFrom the world renowned author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses comes Salman Rushdie’s brilliant novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet, featuring an epic, exuberant love story with a rock ‘n’
- Author: Rushdie, Salman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 16 2000
- ISBN10: 0312254997
- Language: English
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Moving on
$18.95 Add to cartLarry McMurtry’s Moving On, his epic first novel in the acclaimed Houston series, has long been considered a defining tale of “monumental honesty” worthy of great attention (New York Times). Preceding… [more below]
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1631493493
- Language: English
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Caucasia
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the author of New People and Colored Television, the extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Senna’s literary career
“Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race- Author: Senna, Danzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01, 1999
- ISBN10: 1573227161
- Language: English
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The Fuck Up
$16.99 Add to cartArthur Nersesian’s underground literary treasure is an unforgettable slice of gritty New York City life.
This is the darkly hilarious odyssey of an anonymous slacker. He’s a perennial couch-surfer, an- Author: Nersesian, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0671027638
- Language: English
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Up Country
$21.99 Add to cart“Much more than a blood-and-guts thriller…An insightful, moving, and sensitive look at what the war did to a country, its people, and its enemies.” – Orlando Sentinel
Former army homicide investiga- Author: DeMille, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0446177938
- Language: English
