Chronological Period/1950's
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An American Childhood
$17.99 Add to cart“An American Childhood more than takes the reader’s breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you’re a different person, one who has virtually experien
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0060915188
- Language: English
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I Am Albert Einstein
$16.99 Add to cart“We can all be heroes” is the message entertainingly told in this New York Times Bestselling picture-book biography series, with this one highlighting Albert Einstein (Cover may vary)
Each picture book… [more below]- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0803740840
- Language: English
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The Great Fire
$20.00 Add to cartThe Great Fire is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction.
More than twenty years after the classic The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard returns to fiction with a novel that in the w- Series: Picador Modern Classics
- Author: Hazzard, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: July 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312423586
- Language: English
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Red Scare: A Graphic Novel
$14.99 Read moreA page-turning sci-fi adventure set in 1953, featuring a clever girl who, against all odds, must outsmart bullies, the FBI, and alien invaders during the height of the communist Red Scare.
The New York
- Author: Walsh, Liam Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1338167081
- Language: English
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
$28.00 Add to cartIn Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account… [more below]
- Series: America in the King Years
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: November 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0671687425
- Language: English
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Brother’s Keeper
$17.99 Read moreWith war looming on the horizon and winter setting in, can two children escape North Korea on their own?
Winner of the Freeman Book Award! North Korea. December, 1950. Twelve-year-old Sora and her fam- Author: Lee, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0823444945
- Language: English
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Newbery Honor Book; National Book Award Winner)
$14.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER AND NEWBERY HONOR BOOK ● Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Read the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights fi
- Author: Hoose, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0312661053
- Language: English
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The Hellfire Club
$16.99 Add to cartA young Congressman stumbles on the powerful political underworld of 1950’s D.C. in this “potent thriller” (David Baldacci) and New York Times bestseller from CNN correspondent Jake Tapper.
Charlie M- Series: Charlie and Margaret Marder Mystery
- Author: Tapper, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0316472301
- Language: English
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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
$35.00 Add to cartEmmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett T
- Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media
- Author: Anderson, Devery S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1496814770
- Language: English
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The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952: Vol. 1 Paperback Edition
$22.99 Read moreThe best-selling, award-winning, critically acclaimed series that sparked a renaissance for fans of classic comic strips upon its debut in 2004 is now coming in softcover! This first volume, covering … [more below]
- Series: Complete Peanuts #0
- Author: Schulz, Charles M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1606997637
- Language: English
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Walt Disney’s Donald Duck Trick or Treat: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 13
$35.00 Add to cartOur lead-off story, “Trick or Treat,” is the master cartoonist’s adaptation of the Donald Duck cartoon of the same name — with nine pages added back in from the originally truncated version Then, Do… [more below]
- Series: Complete Carl Barks Disney Library #13
- Author: Barks, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: October 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1606998749
- Language: English
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Black Like Me
$18.00 Add to cartTHE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA’S SEGREGATED SOUTH
“One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question.”–Atlanta Journal & Constitu- Author: Griffin, John Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0451208641
- Language: English
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Indian No More
$19.99 Add to cartNotable Children’s Book, Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
Editors’ Choices for Books for Youth, Booklist
Notable Books for a Global Society, International Literacy Association (ILA)- Author: McManis, Charlene Willing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885789479
- Language: English
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Creative Haven Fabulous Fashions of the 1980s Coloring Book
$7.99 Add to cartTravel back to a time of blazers, shoulder pads, leggings, and lace as you color this spectacular array of 1980s fashions. Beautifully detailed outfits for casual to formal occasions await your artist… [more below]
- Series: Creative Haven Coloring Books
- Author: Sun, Ming-Ju
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0486848035
- Language: English
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A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel
$16.99 Add to cart“[This] revelatory account of Truman’s vital contributions to Israel’s founding. . .is told. . . with an elegance informed by thorough research.”
—Wall Street Journal“Even knowing how the story ends
- Author: Radosh, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 20, 2010
- ISBN10: 0060594640
- Language: English
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Guerra Contra Todos Los Puertorriqueños: Revolución Y Terror En La Colonia Americana
$21.99 Read more“Prep?rese para ser enfurecido. Una lectura obligada y reveladora.” –Robert Dom?nguez, New York Daily News
En 1950, despu?s de cincuenta a?os de ocupaci?n militar y gobierno colonial, el Partido Naci- Author: Denis, Nelson A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1568585454
- Language: Spanish
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Grandma Gatewood Hikes the Appalachian Trail
$19.99 Add to cartCritically acclaimed artist Jennifer Thermes’s picture book Grandma Gatewood Hikes the Appalachian Trail is a true inspiring story told with “beautiful illustrations and an emphasis on the value of na… [more below]
- Author: Thermes, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1419728393
- Language: English
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Brother’s Keeper
$9.99 Add to cartWith war looming on the horizon and winter setting in, can two children escape North Korea on their own?
Winner of the Freeman Book Award! North Korea. December, 1950. Twelve-year-old Sora and her fam- Author: Lee, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0823444201
- Language: English
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
$24.99 Add to cartAn absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, p
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: October 15, 2019
- ISBN10: 0062405675
- Language: English
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The Apothecary
$9.99 Add to cartIt’s 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows – a fascinating boy who’s not afraid… [more below]
- Series: Apothecary #1
- Author: Meloy, Maile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 353
- Publish Date: February 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0142422061
- Language: English
