Chronological Period/1950-1999
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Tarantula
$17.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Music legend Bob Dylan’s only work of fiction–a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most- Author: Dylan, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 137
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0743230418
- Language: English
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The Cold War: A World History
$26.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the world
We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born- Author: Westad, Odd Arne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 154167409X
- Language: English
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Going Up the Country: When the Hippies, Dreamers, Freaks, and Radicals Moved to Vermont
$19.95 Add to cartHow the counterculture movement changed Vermont–and America
Going Up the Country is part oral history, part nostalgia-tinged narrative, and part clear-eyed analysis of the multifaceted phenomena colle
- Author: Daley, Yvonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0819579718
- Language: English
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Is This Anything?
$35.00 Add to cartThe first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy.
Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub “Catch a Rising Star” as a- Author: Seinfeld, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1982112697
- Language: English
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Tommyland
$18.99 Add to cartNow in paperback, the New York Times bestseller in which rock and roll’s most notorious bad boy bares it all–and boy is there a lot to bare!I am Tommy Lee, born Thomas Lee Bass in Athens, Greece, on … [more below]
- Author: Lee, Tommy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0743483448
- Language: English
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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
$18.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0763665312
- Language: English
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One Soldier’s War
$24.00 Add to cartOne Soldier’s War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. … [more below]
- Author: Babchenko, Arkady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0802144039
- Language: English
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The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World
$28.32 Read moreThe landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author
In this award-winning investigation into the over- Author: Prashad, Vijay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977621
- Language: English
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Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead
$24.99 Add to cartThe untold story of life on the road with the Grateful Dead, written by an insider who lived it from the early days to today.
Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during hi- Author: Parish, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312333994
- Language: English
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Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1968 Nguyen Qui Duc was nine years old, his father was a high-ranking civil servant in the South Vietnamese government, and his mother was a school principal. Then the Viet Cong launched their Tet … [more below]
- Author: Nguyen, Qui Duc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803226985
- Language: English
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El Ruido de Las Cosas Al Caer / The Sound of Things Falling = The Sound of Things Falling
$16.95 Add to cartUna novela llena de suspense y la perfecta radiograf?a de una generaci?n atrapada en el miedo.
Novela ganadora del English Pen Award 2012, del Premio Gregor von Rezzori-Citt? di Firenze 2013 y del IMPA… [more below]- Author: V?squez, Juan Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 29 2015
- ISBN10: 6073137516
- Language: Spanish
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In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose
$19.99 Read moreIn this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political.
This edition includes a new
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0063346842
- Language: English
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Who Is Jeff Kinney?
$6.99 Add to cartEven as a kid, everyone thought Jeff Kinney was talented. People loved his drawings, and when he went to college, his comic strip Igdoof was so popular that it spread to other universities Still, Jef… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Kinney, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 18 2015
- ISBN10: 0448486776
- Language: English
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
$23.99 Read moreDrawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of
- Author: Dower, John W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 17 2000
- ISBN10: 393320278
- Language: English
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Evidence of Things Unseen
$18.99 Add to cartThis poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar and Properties of Thirst, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more prom… [more below]
- Author: Wiggins, Marianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0743258096
- Language: English
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India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy
$24.99 Add to cartFrom one of the subcontinent’s most important and controversial writers comes this definitive history of post-Partition India, published on the 60th anniversary of Independence
Told in lucid and beauti
- Author: Guha, Ramachandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0062978063
- Language: English
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Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself-While the Rest of Us Die
$21.99 Add to cartNow a 6-part mini-series called Why the Rest of Us Die airing on VICE TV!
The shocking truth about the government’s secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil–even if the rest of us die- Author: Graff, Garrett M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 1476735425
- Language: English
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Can’t Stop Won’t Stop (Young Adult Edition): A Hip-Hop History
$18.99 Add to cartThe American Book Award winner, now completely adapted for a young adult audience!
From award-winning author Jeff Chang, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop is the story of hip-hop, a generation-defining movement a- Author: Chang, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1250790514
- Language: English
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A Fine Balance
$20.00 Add to cartWith a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 197… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mistry, Rohinton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 30 2001
- ISBN10: 140003065X
- Language: English
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Zaha Hadid
$15.99 Read morePart of the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Zaha Hadid tells the inspiring true story of the visionary Iraqi-British architect.
Zaha Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, surrounded- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #31
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1786037459
- Language: English
