Chronological Period/1950-1999
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Meridian
$19.99 Add to cart.A poignant and powerful story of the American South in the 1960s and of one woman who risks her life for the people she loves from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, now available
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0063346826
- Language: English
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When Spring Comes to the DMZ
$17.95 Add to cartBatchelder Honor Winner, 2020 ALA Youth Media Awards
Honorable Mention, 2019 Freeman Awards (National Consortium for Teaching about Asia)Korea’s demilitarized zone (DMZ) has become an amazing acciden
- Author: Lee, Uk-Bae
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0874869722
- Language: English
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Wildflower
$20.00 Add to cartActress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present–told from the place of happiness she’s achieved today–in this heart-stirring New York Times bestseller… [more below]
- Author: Barrymore, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1101983817
- Language: English
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Murder in the Marais
$9.99 Read moreMeet Aim e Leduc, the smart, stylish Parisian private investigator, in her bestselling first investigation
Aim e Leduc has always sworn she would stick to tech investigation–no criminal cases for her- Series: Aim? Leduc Investigation #1
- Author: Black, Cara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1616957301
- Language: English
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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
$19.99 Add to cartA major American intellectual and “one of the right’s most gifted and astute journalists” (The New York Times Book Review) makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to … [more below]
- Author: Caldwell, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1501106910
- Language: English
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
$23.99 Add to cartThis first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how “the good life” in America came to be equated with the a home of one’s own surrounded by a grassy yard and located … [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Kenneth T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 16 1987
- ISBN10: 0195049837
- Language: English
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A History of Us: All the People: Since 1945a History of Us Book Ten
$19.98 Add to cartRecommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.
A History of US is a 10-volume, award-winning series about the birth and devel- Series: History of Us
- Author: Hakim, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0199735530
- Language: English
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
$18.95 Add to cartJust as The Color of Law provided a vital understanding of redlining and racial segregation, Marcia Chatelain’s Franchise investigates the complex interrelationship between black communities and Ameri… [more below]
- Author: Chatelain, Marcia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498703
- Language: English
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
$32.50 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.
From 199
- Author: Kyle, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0062290797
- Language: English
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Stacey Abrams and the Fight to Vote
$18.99 Read more“A brilliant introduction to a powerful Black female politician and voting rights activist. Todd and Freeman bring this to life in their creative biography of Georgia-based politician Abrams.” –Kirku
- Author: Todd, Traci N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0063139774
- Language: English
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New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
$16.99 Add to cartIn the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world’s most important technology entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a man whose … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0393347818
- Language: English
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Fields of Fire
$10.99 Add to cart“In my opinion, the finest of the Vietnam novels.”–Tom Wolfe
They each had their reasons for joining the Marines. They each had their illusions. Goodrich came from Harvard. Snake got the tattoo–“Dea… [more below]- Author: Webb, James
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 28 2001
- ISBN10: 0553583859
- Language: English
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
$40.00 Read moreNew York Times Bestseller
Rising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama’s formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States—from the Pulitzer Pri
- Author: Garrow, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1472
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0062641840
- Language: English
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Chasing Space
$9.99 Read more“In Chasing Space, Leland Melvin tackles stupendous obstacles with dogged determination, showing you what is indeed possible in life–if you belive.” –Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of Astrophysics for
- Author: Melvin, Leland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0062665936
- Language: English
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To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth
$19.99 Add to cartA deeply researched international history and “exemplary study” (New York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended and our present world was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great … [more below]
- Author: Zelikow, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1538764687
- Language: English
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Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan
$29.95 Add to cartThe final, Eisner Award-winning chapter of a legendary cartoonist’s history of Japan
Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan concludes award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki’s stunning historical and autobio- Author: Mizuki, Shigeru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1770466282
- Language: English
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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
$10.99 Add to cartA Caldecott Honor Book
A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
A John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award Winner
Stirring poems and stunning collage illustrations combine to celebrate the life of Fannie Lou Hamer… [more below]- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: December 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1536203254
- Language: English
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Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years
$21.99 Read moreHow did the deeply flawed George W. Bush ascend to the highest office in the nation, what forces abetted his rise, and-perhaps most important-have those forces really been vanquished by Obama’s electi
- Author: Baker, Russ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 17 2009
- ISBN10: 1608190064
- Language: English
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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
$22.00 Add to cartFinalist, National Book Critics Circle Award
All wars are fought twice, the first time on the bat
Finalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction
A New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” Selection- Author: Nguyen, Viet Thanh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0674979842
- Language: English
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Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
$25.00 Add to cartGonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels–Hell’s Angels, that is–in this short work of nonfiction.
“California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 07, 1999
- ISBN10: 067960331X
- Language: English
