Chronological Period/1950-1999
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From Farmworker to Astronaut/de Campesino a Astronauta: My Path to the Stars/Mi Viaje a Las Estrellas
$12.95 Add to cartIn this autobiographical work for intermediate readers, former astronaut Jose M. Hernandez shares his journey from farmworker to spaceman.
- Author: Hernandez, Jose M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 31 2019
- ISBN10: 1558858687
- Language: Spanish
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Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
$18.99 Add to cartEmmanuel Ofosu Yeboah’s inspiring true story–which was turned into a film, Emmanuel’s Gift, narrated by Oprah Winfrey–is nothing short of remarkable.
Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed l- Author: Thompson, Laurie Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 06, 2015
- ISBN10: 044981744X
- Language: English
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
$35.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredic
- Author: Vance, Ashlee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 19, 2015
- ISBN10: 0062301233
- Language: English
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Warriors Don’t Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High
$8.99 Add to cartIn this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most powerful figures, Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine explores not only the oppressive force of racism, b… [more below]
- Author: Beals, Melba Pattillo
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 24 2007
- ISBN10: 1416948821
- Language: English
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Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin presents a follow up to his award-winning book Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal–the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon, taking readers on a terrifying jo
- Author: Sheinkin, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1250149010
- Language: English
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Poet Warrior: A Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartJoy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, an
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022019
- Language: English
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Post Office
$20.99 Add to cartCharles Bukowski’s classic roman ? clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age.
Post Office is an account of Bukow
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0061177571
- Language: English
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
$13.99 Add to cart“An eye-opening look into the story of Knight before his multibillion dollar company.” –School Library Journal “A great story about how an ambition turned into a business…serves as a guide for acco
- Author: Knight, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 27, 2019
- ISBN10: 1534401199
- Language: English
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Midnight’s Children
$19.00 Add to cartThe iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist–one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker)
WINN- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Rushdie, Salman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 04, 2006
- ISBN10: 0812976533
- Language: English
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
$32.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid s- Author: Knight, Phil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 26, 2016
- ISBN10: 1501135910
- Language: English
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Smile: A Graphic Novel
$25.99 Add to cartRaina Telgemeier’s #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood
Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and… [more below]
- Author: Telgemeier, Raina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0545132053
- Language: English
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Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER *
Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly “chronicles our embrac- Author: Borowitz, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1668003899
- Language: English
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Cities of the Plain
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The third volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road – A darkly beautiful elegy for t
- Series: Border Trilogy
- Author: McCarthy, Cormac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 25, 1999
- ISBN10: 0679747192
- Language: English
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White Teeth
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The blockbuster debut novel from “a preternaturally gifted” writer (The New York Times) and author of On Beauty and Swing Time–set against London’s racial and cultural tapestry,… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Smith, Zadie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 12, 2001
- ISBN10: 0375703861
- Language: English
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
$18.00 Add to cart50th Anniversary Edition – With an introduction by Caity Weaver, acclaimed New York Times journalist
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicki- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 12 1998
- ISBN10: 0679785892
- Language: English
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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
$18.99 Add to cartA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
“Extraordinary … A sweeping history of the Palestinian-Israeli conundrum … Highly readable and evocative.” – The Washington Post The tale of a simple- Author: Tolan, Sandy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 1596913436
- Language: English
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My Brilliant Friend: A Novel (Neapolitan Novels, 1)
$19.00 Add to cartNow an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times-bestselling “enduring masterpiece” about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic).
Beginning in the 1950s in a poor
- Series: Neapolitan Novels #01
- Author: Ferrante, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 25 2012
- ISBN10: 1609450787
- Language: English
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The Remains of the Day: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
$19.00 Add to cartBOOKER PRIZE WINNER – From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-Wo… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 12 1990
- ISBN10: 0679731725
- Language: English
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Norwegian Wood
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (The New York Times Book Review) blending the music, the mood, and the eth… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Murakami, Haruki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0375704027
- Language: English
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American Psycho
$18.00 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other.
“A- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ellis, Bret Easton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 06 1991
- ISBN10: 0679735771
- Language: English
