Chronological Period/1950-1999
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Smile: A Graphic Novel
$12.99 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
- Author: Telgemeier, Raina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 10, 2020
- ISBN10: 1338740261
- Language: English
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Katherine Johnson: Ready-To-Read Level 3
$5.99 Add to cartGet to know the woman who made many of NASA’s early missions possible in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series of biographies about people “you should meet!”
Meet Kather- Series: You Should Meet
- Author: Feldman, Thea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 153440340X
- Language: English
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The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine
$19.99 Add to cartA powerful account, by Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, of his transformation from a young man who’d grown up in the heart of Israel’s elite and served proudly in its military into a fearless advoca… [more below]
- Author: Peled, Miko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01, 2016
- ISBN10: 1682570029
- Language: English
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
$32.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city–now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author
“Elegant and wicked . . . might be the- Author: Berendt, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0679429220
- Language: English
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Who Is Barack Obama?
$6.99 Add to cartAs the world now knows, Barack Obama has made history as our first African-American president. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this biography is perfect for primary graders looking for … [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Edwards, Roberta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0448453304
- Language: English
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
$19.99 Read moreLonglisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards
“A smart and accessible cultural history.”-Los Angeles Times A portrait–by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving–of one of America- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639732055
- Language: English
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Dirty Old Boston: Four Decades of a City in Transition
$39.95 Add to cartWhen Jim Botticelli launched the Dirty Old Boston Facebook page as a salute to the gritty city he once knew, he discovered that thousands of people were equally nostalgic and curious about Boston’s re… [more below]
- Author: Botticelli, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1934598127
- Language: English
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Lessons from the Mountain: What I Learned from Erin Walton
$16.00 Add to cartA fascinating look at what it’s like to grow up in front of and beyond the cameras. –Eve Plumb
For nine seasons, Mary McDonough was part of one of the most beloved families in television history. Just
- Author: McDonough, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 01, 2012
- ISBN10: 0758263678
- Language: English
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Disgrace
$18.00 Add to cartThe provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee
“Compulsively readable… A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we’ve f- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01, 2000
- ISBN10: 0140296409
- Language: English
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The Forest Man: The True Story of Jadav Payeng
$16.99 Add to cartAfter years of harsh monsoon seasons, a forest on the river island of Majuli is in danger of being slowly washed away. Jadav, a boy living on the island, is determined to save the forest he loves.
This
- Author: Matheson, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 07, 2020
- ISBN10: 1486718167
- Language: English
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Jane Goodall: A Champion of Chimpanzees
$5.99 Add to cartLearn about the life of Jane Goodall, a pioneering scientist who became the world expert on chimpanzees, in this early reader biography.
Jane Goodall was the first person to study wild chimpanzees up
- Series: I Can Read Level 2
- Author: Albee, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0062432788
- Language: English
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Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$22.00 Add to cartKeith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980’s. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world’s consciousness and is sti… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Haring, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0143105973
- Language: English
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Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
$28.99 Read moreNEW 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 1668003880
- Language: English
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Who Was Sally Ride?
$6.99 Add to cartIn 1978, Sally Ride, a PhD candidate at Standford University, responded to a newspaper ad to join the US astronaut program. She was accepted and became the first American woman astronaut to fly in spa
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Stine, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 16, 2013
- ISBN10: 0448466872
- Language: English
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Safe Area Gorazde
$24.99 Add to cartPraised by The New York Times, Brill’s Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco (the critically… [more below]
- Author: Sacco, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 17 2002
- ISBN10: 1560974702
- Language: English
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
$17.99 Add to cartForty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original papers that invented the field of behavioral economics. One of the greatest partnershi… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354776
- Language: English
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Originally published in 2007, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy Scho- Author: Mearsheimer, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531501
- Language: English
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Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior
$22.00 Read moreThe Explosive National Bestseller
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A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era.- Author: Prado, Ric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1250764297
- Language: English
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Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel (Pen/Faulkner Award)
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – PEN/Faulkner Award Winner – A gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric masterpiece of courtroom suspense–one that leaves us shaken and changed.
“Haunting …. A whodunit compl… [more below]- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Guterson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 26 1995
- ISBN10: 067976402X
- Language: English
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Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush V. Gore
$28.99 Add to cartIn Restless Giant, acclaimed historical author James Patterson provides a crisp, concise assessment of the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bus… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Paperback)
- Author: Patterson, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0195305221
- Language: English
