Chronological Period/1950-1999
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Over and Out
$18.99 Read morePerfect for fans of Alan Gratz and Jennifer A. Nielsen, a gripping and accessible story of a young girl from Cold War East Berlin who is forced to spy for the secret police… but is determined to esc… [more below]
- Author: Walsh, Jenni L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1338775782
- Language: English
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Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice
$18.99 Add to cartDiscover the incredible story of a young daughter of immigrants who would grow up to be the first woman, first Black person, and first South Asian American ever elected Vice President of the United St… [more below]
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1534462678
- Language: English
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Who Is Bruce Springsteen?
$6.99 Add to cartNot only was Bruce Springsteen “Born in the USA,” he has risen to become a twenty-time Grammy winner and American icon.
Bruce Springsteen grew up in a blue-collar New Jersey town, where his parents st- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Sabol, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0448487039
- Language: English
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Hippie Food
$19.99 Add to cartAn enlightening narrative history–an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan–that traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements, charismatic g
- Author: Kauffman, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062437313
- Language: English
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Shattered Consensus: The Rise and Decline of America’s Postwar Political Order
$17.99 Add to cartThe United States has been shaped by three sweeping political revolutions: Jefferson’s “revolution of 1800,” the Civil War, and the New Deal. Each of these upheavals concluded with lasting institution… [more below]
- Author: Piereson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1594038953
- Language: English
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MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Michael Jackson, a “vivid…gripping…authoritative account of a world-changing force of nature” (Rolling Stone), celebrating the King of Pop’s legendary contributions to … [more below]
- Author: Knopper, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1476730385
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Profiles of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents They Served–From JFK to George W. Bush
$24.99 Add to cartThe most solemn obligation of any president is to safeguard the nation’s security. But the president cannot do this alone. He needs help. In the past half century, presidents have relied on their nati… [more below]
- Author: Daalder, Ivo H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1416553207
- Language: English
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Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005
$29.95 Add to cartSelected poems from a visionary feminist poet
Considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets, Alice Notley has amassed a body of work that includes intimate lyrics, experi
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: August 26 2008
- ISBN10: 0819567736
- Language: English
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Everglades Patrol
$19.95 Add to cartAs law enforcement officer and game manager for the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Lt. Tom Shirley was the law in one of the last true frontiers in the nation–the Florida Everglades. I… [more below]
- Author: Shirley, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0813064880
- Language: English
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All That Is Bitter and Sweet: A Memoir
$18.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In this unforgettable memoir, Ashley Judd describes her odyssey, as a lost child attains international prominence as a fiercely dedicated advocate.
In 2002, award-winning… [more below]- Author: Judd, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0345523628
- Language: English
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Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake
$28.95 Add to cartIn the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers on a remote base in the Mojave Desert developed a weapon no one had asked for but everyone in the weapons industry desi… [more below]
- Author: Westrum, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1591149819
- Language: English
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Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead
$19.95 Add to cartThis memoir chronicles the Grateful Dead’s seminal years: 1965-1985.
- Author: Scully, Rock
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 28 2001
- ISBN10: 0815411634
- Language: English
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La Vida Loca (Always Running): El Testimonio de Un Pandillero En Los Angeles
$19.99 Add to cart“A los doce años, Luis RodrÃguez ya era un veterano de la guerra entre las pandillas de East Los Angeles. AtraÃdo por una cultura pandillera aparentemente insuperable, fue testigo de un sinfÃn de … [more below]
- Author: Rodriguez, Luis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0743281551
- Language: Spanish
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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American Is Tearing Us Apart
$18.99 Add to cartThe award-winning journalist reveals the untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided in this groundbreaking book.
Armed with startling demographic data, Bill Bishop demonstrate
- Author: Bishop, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0547237723
- Language: English
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The Bodyguard’s Story: Diana, the Crash, and the Sole Survivor
$30.00 Add to cartFor Trevor Rees-Jones the answer is simple: he was in the same hospital as Diana, fighting for his own life a few rooms away. As bodyguard to her companion Dodi Fayed, he was with the couple when, hou
- Author: Rees-Jones, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 09 2004
- ISBN10: 0446527750
- Language: English
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The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Classic Story of Seduction and Murder
$35.00 Read moreIn 1971, while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic, true-crime writer Ann Rule struck up a friendship with a sensitive, charismatic young coworker: Ted Bundy. Three years later, eight yo
- Author: Rule, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393050297
- Language: English
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The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate’s Deep Throat
$17.99 Add to cartThe mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 remained hidden for thirty-three years. In The Secret Man, Woodward tells the story of his lon… [more below]
- Author: Woodward, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0743287169
- Language: English
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The Gun
$20.99 Add to cartIn a tour de force, prize-winning New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through … [more below]
- Author: Chivers, C. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0743271734
- Language: English
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Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead’s American Adventure
$22.99 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Carol Brightman brings the Grateful Dead and their history to life in this fascinating and “cogent, intelligent look at the Dead and the structure of … [more below]
- Author: Brightman, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0671011170
- Language: English
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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
$18.95 Read moreIn the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, Do you wanna dance? became divisive, even explosive. What about this music made it such hot stuff? In her incisive history, Alice Ech
- Author: Echols, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 21 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338916
- Language: English
