Chronological Period/1950-1999
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Outer Banks
$18.99 Add to cart“Captures the richness and complication of female friendships in a way few writers have done. . . incredibly rich characterizations and a profound sense of place.” — Cosmopolitan
In her magnificent cl
- Author: Siddons, Anne Rivers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 18 2008
- ISBN10: 0060538066
- Language: English
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New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
$20.99 Read moreA New York Times Notable Book
A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City’s transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city’s future. Dangerous, filthy, and fallin- Author: Dyja, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1982149795
- Language: English
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Waiting
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the PEN/Faulkner Award – National Book Award Winner – Pulitzer Prize Finalist – A New York Times Notable Book
From the widely acclaimed author–a rich and atmospheric novel about a man living… [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Jin, Ha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 19 2000
- ISBN10: 0375706410
- Language: English
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Dream Big: Michael Jordan and the Pursuit of Excellence
$8.99 Add to cartOlympic dreams come true in this inspiring picture book from Michael Jordan’s mother, author of the New York Times bestselling Salt in His Shoes.
Long before he became a professional All-Star basketba- Author: Jordan, Deloris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1442412704
- Language: English
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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
$25.00 Add to cartA major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union–showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise
“A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart.”–Rodric Braithwaite, Fin- Author: Zubok, Vladislav M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268173
- Language: English
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Rupaul
$15.99 Add to cartIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of RuPaul, the shape-shifter, performer, supermodel, and host of RuPaul’s… [more below]
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #61
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0711246815
- Language: English
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The Monster of Florence
$19.99 Add to cartIn the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills s… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 23, 2013
- ISBN10: 1455573825
- Language: English
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Journey to Jo’burg: A South African Story
$9.99 Add to cart“Has no equal. Evocative and haunting.” (School Library Journal starred review)
The bestselling classic set in South Africa during the apartheid era, in which two siblings must face the dangers of thei
- Author: Naidoo, Beverley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0062881795
- Language: English
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Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
$16.95 Add to cartIn the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americ… [more below]
- Author: Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Stokely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1556526490
- Language: English
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
$25.00 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize – Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award – One of the New York Times‘ Ten Best Books of the Year
“Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enorm- Author: Judt, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: September 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037757
- Language: English
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
$24.99 Add to cartAn absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, p
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: October 15, 2019
- ISBN10: 0062405675
- Language: English
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The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of Gaza and the Occupied Territories
$19.95 Add to cartShortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2017
A powerful, groundbreaking history of the Occupied Territories from one of Israel’s most influential historians From the author of the bestselling study- Author: Pappe, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1786073412
- Language: English
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The Poisonwood Bible
$34.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – An Oprah Book Club Pick
“Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing
- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 07, 1998
- ISBN10: 0060175400
- Language: English
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Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “GRIPPING…THIS YARN HAS IT ALL.” —USA TODAY * “A WONDERFUL BOOK.” —Christian Science Monitor * “ENTHRALLING.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) * “A MUST-READ.” —Bookl… [more below]
- Author: Vincent, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1501135953
- Language: English
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Queen of Tejano Music: Selena
$18.99 Add to cartThis moving and impassioned picture book about the iconic Queen of Tejano music, Selena Quintanilla, that will embolden young readers to find their passion and make the impossible, possible!
Selena Qu- Author: L?pez, Silvia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 149981142X
- Language: English
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Mama in Congress: Rashida Tlaib’s Journey to Washington
$18.99 Read moreAn inspiring picture book that tells the story of Rashida Tlaib, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, and her family. Perfect for readers of books that celebrate trailblazing women and s
- Author: Tlaib, Rashida
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0358683432
- Language: English
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Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste
$20.00 Add to cartTo me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it’s like getting a standing ovation. Thus begins John Waters’s autobiography. And what a story it is. … [more below]
- Author: Waters, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 5, 2005
- ISBN10: 1560256982
- Language: English
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
$32.00 Add to cartTHE CLASSIC BOOK THAT HAS INSPIRED MILLIONS
A penetrating examination of how we live and how to live better
Few books transform a generation and then establish themselves as touchstones for the generati
- Author: Pirsig, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01, 1974
- ISBN10: 0688002307
- Language: English
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Who Was Steve Jobs?
$6.99 Add to cartSteve Jobs, adopted in infancy by a family in San Francisco, packed a lot of life into fifty-six short years. In this Who Was…? biography, children will learn how his obsession with computers and te… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Pollack, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0448462117
- Language: English
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Jimmy the King: Murder, Vice, and the Reign of a Dirty Cop
$29.00 Add to cartAn incredible four-decade account of murder, power, and corruption in one of the country’s largest police departments
In 1979, the gruesome slaying of a thirteen-year-old boy riveted the suburbs of S- Author: Garcia-Roberts, Gus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 3, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541730399
- Language: English
