Chronological Period/1950-1999
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Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers comes the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during t
- Author: Henderson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0061571377
- Language: English
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Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived
$18.99 Add to cartSome people are born to lead and destined to teach by the example of living life to the fullest, and facing death with uncommon honesty and courage. Peter Barton was that kind of person.
Driven by the
- Author: Shames, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2004
- ISBN10: 006073731X
- Language: English
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The Story of Motown
$17.95 Read more- In 2018, ITV Studios and Reelz will release a documentary about the Supremes on which Peter Benjaminson will appear
- Also in 2018, CNN will broadcast a four-part series about Detroit in 1963. Benjaminso
- Author: Benjaminson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 13, 2018
- ISBN10: 1947856235
- Language: English
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Life After Manzanar
$28.00 Read moreFrom the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the “Resettlement” the relatively unexamined period wh… [more below]
- Author: Hirahara, Naomi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1597144002
- Language: English
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My Trip Down the Pink Carpet
$16.99 Add to cartA hilarious romp from small-town USA to the pink carpet of Hollywood with beloved Emmy Award-winning actor, playwright, popular and laugh-out-loud funny Instagram icon, and gay legend.
Leslie Jordan w- Author: Jordan, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1439153485
- Language: English
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Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
$17.99 Add to cartNow in paperback, from a “multi-faceted, medium-hopping, culture skewering performer” (SPIN), this is a journey through the world of Patton Oswalt, best known for his roles in film (Big Fan and Ratato… [more below]
- Author: Oswalt, Patton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1439149097
- Language: English
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Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine’s Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
$24.00 Add to cartThrilling submarine espionage and an inside look at the U.S. Navy’s “silent service”
Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commandi- Author: Sasgen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0312605536
- Language: English
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You Were Never in Chicago
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the “Second City.” From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling’s withering gaze. A
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Steinberg, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 22 2013
- ISBN10: 022610415X
- Language: English
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All Things Possible: My Story of Faith, Football, and the First Miracle Season
$18.99 Add to cartNFL sensation Kurt Warner tells the incredible story of faith and perseverance that captured the hearts of millions and rocketed him from obscurity to become MVP and Super Bowl champion.
- Author: Warner, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 006251718X
- Language: English
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A Short History of Cahiers Du Cinema
$24.95 Add to cartCahiers du Cin ma was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded in 1951, it was responsible for establishing film as the ‘seventh art, ‘ equal to literature, painting or musi… [more below]
- Author: Bickerton, Emilie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1844677605
- Language: English
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Vail: The First 50 Years
$31.99 Add to cartPrior to 1962, sheep ranchers and homesteaders occupied Gore Creek Valley. A sleepy place studded with aspen and pine groves, the valley lay ripe for discovery. Two men, Pete Seibert and Earl Eaton, h… [more below]
- Author: Welch, Shirley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 27 2012
- ISBN10: 1531664431
- Language: English
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I Am Charlie Wilson
$17.99 Read moreThe long-awaited New York Times bestselling memoir of seven-time Grammy-nominated artist Charlie Wilson, the iconic R&B and Funk singer-songwriter-producer and former lead singer of The Gap Band–inte… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1476790086
- Language: English
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700 Sundays
$19.99 Add to cartTo support his family, Billy Crystal’s father, Jack, worked two jobs, having only one day a week to spend with his family. Based on Crystal’s one-man Broadway show of the same name, “700 Sundays”–ref… [more below]
- Author: Crystal, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0446698512
- Language: English
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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into a Visionary Leader
$18.00 Read moreThe #1 New York Times bestselling biography of how Steve Jobs became the most visionary CEO in history.
Becoming Steve Jobs breaks down the conventional, one-dimensional view of Steve Jobs that he wa… [more below]- Author: Schlender, Brent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0385347421
- Language: English
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You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
$18.95 Add to cartIf you’re both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a “new generation of activists and ordinary people who search for hope in the darkness” (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor). … [more below]
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 807043842
- Language: English
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The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today
$19.99 Add to cartA noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and how it can power today’s social justice struggles
Speaking to his supporters- Author: Marsh, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0465044166
- Language: English
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America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation
$15.99 Add to cartIn 1960, the FDA approved the oral contraceptive that would come to be known as the pill. Within a few years, millions of women were using it. At a time when the population was surging, many believed … [more below]
- Author: May, Elaine Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0465024599
- Language: English
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Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
$20.00 Add to cart“A terrific biography of a rock innovator that hums with juicy detail and wincing truth. . . . Page after page groans with the folly of the ’60s drug culture, the tragedy of talent toasted before its … [more below]
- Author: Meyer, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0345503368
- Language: English
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The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin’s Russia
$30.00 Read moreThe explosive, never-before-told story of the thrilling hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA, revealing how spies blinded the US to the rise of Putin and Russia’s dangerous future, from New
- Author: Baer, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 17, 2022
- ISBN10: 0306925613
- Language: English
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When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
$17.95 Add to cartThe untold story of the twenty-five-year struggle to free Soviet Jews, drawing on newly released Soviet government documents as well as hundreds of oral interviews, and told from the perspective of th… [more below]
- Author: Beckerman, Gal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0547577478
- Language: English
