Chronological Period/1950's
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A Dying Colonialism
$18.00 Add to cartFrantz Fanon’s seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution.
Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time,
- Series: Fanon, Frantz
- Author: Fanon, Frantz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 181
- Publish Date: January 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150276
- Language: English
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The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue
$19.99 Add to cartThe story behind the major motion picture from Disney–starring Chris Pine, Eric Bana, and Casey Affleck–written by a recognized master of the genre–“a blockbuster account of tragedy at sea” (The Pr
- Author: Tougias, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 13, 2010
- ISBN10: 1416567224
- Language: English
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The Lions of Little Rock
$9.99 Add to cart“Satisfying, gratifying, touching, weighty–this authentic piece of work has got soul.”–The New York Times Book Review
As twelve-year-old Marlee starts middle school in 1958 Little Rock, it feels lik- Author: Levine, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0142424358
- Language: English
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A Suitable Boy
$26.99 Read more“Surrender to this strange, beguiling world and be swept away on the wings of story. . . . It is difficult to imagine that many contemporary writers could give us a novel that provides so much deep sa
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Seth, Vikram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1488
- Publish Date: October 04, 2005
- ISBN10: 0060786523
- Language: English
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Out of the Easy
$13.99 Add to cart“A haunting peek at the life of a teenage girl in 1950s New Orleans.”–Entertainment Weekly
It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine i- Author: Sepetys, Ruta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0147508436
- Language: English
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I Am Rosa Parks
$16.99 Add to cartCivil Rights leader Rosa Parks is the 3rd hero in in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 8. (Cover may vary)
Each picture book in this series is a biography of a- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 17, 2014
- ISBN10: 0803740859
- Language: English
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Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel (Pen/Faulkner Award)
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – PEN/Faulkner Award Winner – A gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric masterpiece of courtroom suspense–one that leaves us shaken and changed.
“Haunting …. A whodunit compl… [more below]- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Guterson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 26 1995
- ISBN10: 067976402X
- Language: English
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The Dud Avocado
$17.95 Add to cartA smart, funny classic about a young and beautiful American woman who moves to Paris determined to live life to the fullest.
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young Ame- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Dundy, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 05, 2007
- ISBN10: 1590172329
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement
$19.99 Add to cartThe official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY” —Time
The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of fo
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 07, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253804
- Language: English
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This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
$32.95 Add to cart“A comprehensive and impressively written history of the Korean War.”—Washington Post
Selected for the 2019 Commandant’s Professional Reading List Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield dia- Author: Fehrenbach, T. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: March 01, 2001
- ISBN10: 1574883348
- Language: English
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Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
$19.99 Add to cartA real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson’s debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an
- Author: Dawson, Kate Winkler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 13, 2018
- ISBN10: 0316506834
- Language: English
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
$22.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history f
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 26, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600061
- Language: English
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The Blood of Emmett Till
$18.00 Add to cartThis extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement–the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till–“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enou
- Author: Tyson, Timothy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 1476714851
- Language: English
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Black Like Me
$10.99 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: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 20 2010
- ISBN10: 0451234219
- Language: English
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Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
$8.99 Read moreIn this inspiring collection of true stories, thirty African-Americans who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South-to s
- Author: Levine, Ellen S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01, 2000
- ISBN10: 0698118707
- Language: English
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Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement
$19.95 Add to cartTexas native James Farmer is one of the “Big Four” of the turbulent 1960s civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young. Farmer might be called the forgotten
- Author: Farmer, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: June 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 0875651887
- Language: English
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
$22.00 Add to cartThe award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind, is one of our most important records of the American civil rights movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a “national treasure… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1476797714
- Language: English
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
$19.99 Add to cart“In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home.”—The New York Times
David Halberstam’s magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 0786888628
- Language: English
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Story of a Marriage
$17.00 Add to cartA Novel from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of LESS
A Today Show Summer Reads Pick
A Washington Post Book of the Year
“Inspired, lyrical . . . Mr. Greer’s considerable gifts as a storyteller ascend t- Author: Greer, Andrew Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 31, 2009
- ISBN10: 0312428286
- Language: English
