Chronological Period/1950's
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In Cold Blood
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The most famous true crime novel of all time “chills the blood and exercises the intelligence” (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writi… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0679745580
- Language: English
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El Prisionero del Cielo / The Prisoner of Heaven
$17.95 Add to cartCarlos Ruiz Zaf n, autor de xito de ventas del New York Times, aclamado internacionalmente, crea una historia rica y laber ntica de amor, literatura, pasi n y venganza, ambientada en una Barcelona os
- Series: Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados #3
- Author: Zafón, Carlos Ruiz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 15, 2012
- ISBN10: 0345803302
- Language: Spanish
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The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The dramatic and inspiring story of a man and his horse, an unlikely duo whose rise to stardom in the sport of show jumping captivated the nation
Harry de Leyer first s- Author: Letts, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0345521099
- Language: English
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A Painted House
$18.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers … [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0385337930
- Language: English
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The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York
$19.95 Add to cartInformative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City … [more below]
- Author: Hortis, C. Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1633886085
- Language: English
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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s & 40s (Loa #94): The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? / Thieves Like Us / The Big
$45.00 Add to cart“The most important collection of crime fiction ever published in the United States.” — Ed Gorman
Evolving out of the terse and violent style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the dec- Series: Library of America Noir Collection #1
- Author: Polito, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 990
- Publish Date: September 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1883011469
- Language: English
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The Fifties: An Underground History
$17.99 Add to cartAn “exciting and enlightening revisionist history” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, br… [more below]
- Author: Gaines, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1439101647
- Language: English
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The Prisoner of Heaven
$18.99 Add to cart“A deep and mysterious novel full of people that feel real. . . .An enthralling read and a must-have for your library. Zaf n focuses on the emotion of the reader and doesn’t let go.” — Seattle Post-I
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Ruiz Zafon, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 006220629X
- Language: English
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The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines
$24.00 Add to cartWith an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps–the last all-white branch of the U.S. military–was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African … [more below]
- Author: McLaurin, Melton A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0807861766
- Language: English
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When the Schools Shut Down: A Young Girl’s Story of Virginia’s Lost Generation and the Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka Decision
$19.99 Add to cartA 2023 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Finalist
An awe-inspiring autobiographical picture book about a young African American girl who lived during the shutdown of public schools in Farmville, Virgin
- Author: Gladden, Yolanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0063011166
- Language: English
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The Sheltering Sky
$14.99 Add to cartThis 50th anniversary edition of The Sheltering Sky, one of the great novels of the 20th century, features an original review of the book by Tennessee Williams. Stands head and shoulders above most ot… [more below]
- Author: Bowles, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: September 20 2005
- ISBN10: 006083482X
- Language: English
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Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War (National Book Award Finalist)
$17.99 Add to cartMost Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War is New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin’s award-winning nonfiction account of an ordinary man who wielded the most
- Author: Sheinkin, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 125018083X
- Language: English
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Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
$22.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE – From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the author of A Higher Call.
“In the spirit of Unbroken and- Author: Makos, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0804176604
- Language: English
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Rosa Parks
$15.99 Add to cartIn this book from the highly acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Rosa Parks, the “Mother of the Freedom Movement.”
Rosa Parks grew up in Alabama, where she lea- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #9
- Author: Kaiser, Lisbeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1786030187
- Language: English
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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartBy the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.
Set in the suburbs- Author: Goodwin, Doris Kearns
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 1998
- ISBN10: 684847957
- Language: English
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A Season of Gifts
$9.99 Add to cartOne of the most adored characters in children’s literature is the eccentric, forceful, bighearted Grandma Dowdel, star of the Newbery Award-winning A Year Down Yonder and Newbery Honor-winning A Long … [more below]
- Author: Peck, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0142417297
- Language: English
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Sons of Fortune
$24.99 Add to cartSent to the wrong parents by a desperate nurse in the early 1950s baby Fletcher Cartwright becomes the son of a wealthy CEO. His real brother goes home with his real parents. Many years will pass befo… [more below]
- Author: Archer, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 07 2003
- ISBN10: 1250893151
- Language: English
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The Collected Plays of Edward Albee, Volume 1: 1958-1965
$29.95 Read moreThe Collected Plays of Edward Albee, Volume 1 includes eight plays from 1958-1965 by “a major American playwright who helped change the shape of drama here and abroad” (New York Times).
Edward Albee’- Author: Albee, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1585678848
- Language: English
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Mamie on the Mound: A Woman in Baseball’s Negro Leagues
$18.95 Add to cartMamie “Peanut” Johnson had one dream: to play professional baseball. She was a talented player, but she wasn’t welcome in the segregated All-American Girls Pro Baseball League due to the color of her … [more below]
- Author: Henderson, Leah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1684460239
- Language: English
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Mighty Inside
$17.99 Read moreGolden Kite Award Finalist
Melvin Robinson wants a strong, smooth, He-Man vo
Washington State Book Award Winner
Junior Library Guild Gold Standard
Notable Social Studies Reading List
CCBC Choices- Author: Frazier, Sundee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1646140915
- Language: English
