Chronological Period/1950's
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
$16.95 Add to cartThe International Bestselling memoir from award-winning author Amos Oz, “one of Isreal’s most prolific writers and respected intellectuals” (The New York Times), about his turbulent upbringing in the
- Author: Oz, Amos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 015603252X
- Language: English
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
$7.99 Add to cartHiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic–the star of her school’s running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the “atom bomb disease,” Sadako faces her future w… [more below]
- Author: Coerr, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0698118022
- Language: English
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Becoming Muhammad Ali
$8.99 Add to cartTwo heavy-hitters in children’s literature deliver a critically acclaimed, bestselling biographical novel of cultural icon Muhammad Ali.
★ “This utterly delightful story about Ali’s childhood- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316498173
- Language: English
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The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
$23.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER.
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Winner of the 2021 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction. One of The Wa- Author: Cervini, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798507
- Language: English
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The Girl Next Door
$14.95 Add to cartA teenage girl is held captive and brutally tortured by neighborhood children. Based on a true story, this shocking novel reveals the depravity of which we are all capable.
This novel contains graphic
- Author: Ketchum, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1503950565
- Language: English
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Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
$21.00 Add to cartThis New York Times bestselling memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both
- Author: Kranz, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 23, 2009
- ISBN10: 1439148813
- Language: English
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Quinito’s Neighborhood / El Vecindario de Quinito
$11.95 Add to cartJoin Quinito as he introduces the people and places of his neighborhood.
Quinito knows that his neighborhood is made up of much more than just buildings, streets, and shops-it is made up of all the peo
- Series: Quinito
- Author: Cumpiano, Ina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0892392290
- Language: Spanish
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Indian No More
$18.95 Add to cartAmerican Indian Youth Literature Award Winner – American Indian Library Association
When Regina’s Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on
- Author: Willing McManis, Charlene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 24, 2019
- ISBN10: 1620148390
- Language: English
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Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins
$32.50 Add to cartMarguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberatio
- Author: Conant, Jennet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393882128
- Language: English
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Footnotes in Gaza
$40.00 Add to cart“Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some small way, our own.”–Los Angeles Times
Rafah, a town- Author: Sacco, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 12, 2010
- ISBN10: 0805092773
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
$22.99 Add to cart“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time
Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn’s entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain fo
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: August 07, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253723
- Language: English
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Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote
$18.99 Read moreShortlist, Goddard Riverside/CBC Young People’s Book Prize for Social Justice
This critical civil rights book for middle-graders examines the little-known Tennessee’s Fayette County Tent City Movement- Author: Duncan, Alice Faye
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1684379792
- Language: English
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Cities of the Plain
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The third volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road – A darkly beautiful elegy for t
- Series: Border Trilogy
- Author: McCarthy, Cormac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 25, 1999
- ISBN10: 0679747192
- Language: English
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Cold War Correspondent (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #11): A Korean War Tale
$15.99 Add to cartDiscover the Korean War through the eyes of a journalist who covered it in author-illustrator Nathan Hale’s Cold War Correspondent, a Hazardous Tale in the New York Times bestselling graphic novel ser… [more below]
- Series: Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales
- Author: Hale, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 141974951X
- Language: English
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The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams
$29.00 Add to cartCASEY Award Finalist for Best Baseball Book of the Year
The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and T- Author: Lazarus, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0806542500
- Language: English
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The Remains of the Day: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
$19.00 Add to cartBOOKER PRIZE WINNER – From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-Wo… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 12 1990
- ISBN10: 0679731725
- Language: English
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Fellow Travelers
$18.00 Add to cartNOW A SHOWTIME LIMITED SERIES STARRING MATT BOMER, JONATHAN BAILEY, AND ALLISON WILLIAMS – A searing historical novel set in 1950s Washington, D.C.–a world of dominated by personalities like Nixon, L
- Author: Mallon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 06, 2008
- ISBN10: 0307388905
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
$22.99 Add to cart“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time
Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn’s chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureauc
- Series: Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 #01
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 07, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253715
- 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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Echoes of the White Giraffe
$10.95 Read more* “Wonderfully telling scenes evoke the time, the place, and–more subtly–the deep-running emotions that these people, bound by customs and besieged by troubles, were so rarely free to acknowledge.”-… [more below]
- Author: Choi, Sook Nyul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0618809171
- Language: English
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