Chronological Period/1950's
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San Diego Lowriders: A History of Cars and Cruising
$21.99 Read moreSan Diego’s unique lowrider culture and community has a long history of low and slow. Cruising the streets from 1950 to 1985, twenty-eight lowrider car clubs made their marks in the San Diego neighbor… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Reyes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1467137804
- Language: English
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The Quiet Place
$19.99 Read moreWhen Isabel and her family move to the United States, Isabel misses all the things she left behind in Mexico, especially her aunt Lupita and hearing people speak Spanish. But she also experiences some
- Author: Stewart, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0374325650
- Language: English
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Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
$12.99 Add to cartRevised and updated with new information, this Jane Adams award winner is an in-depth examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement.
The kidnapping and violent mu- Author: Crowe, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 09 2018
- ISBN10: 045147872X
- Language: English
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Havana
$0.00 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter takes beloved hero, Earl Swagger, into the lush world of 1950’s Cuba to fight the American mobsters who control the Havana casinos.
Cuba 1953: The isla- Series: Earl Swagger
- Author: Hunter, Stephen
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743457978
- Language: English
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Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
$19.00 Add to cart“A hilarious, endearing novel.”–Los Angeles Times
In Fannie Flagg’s high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where she’s “not doing much except sitting around waitin- Author: Flagg, Fannie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0345485602
- Language: English
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The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
$19.95 Read moreThis book chronicles the history of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and the stories of the first women to play professional baseball in a league of their own.
“In 1941, the world w- Author: Orrock, Anika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1452173648
- Language: English
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The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
$20.00 Read moreThe Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the 1st Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korea
- Author: Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1472824881
- Language: English
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The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York
$24.95 Add to cartForget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime.Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this… [more below]
- Author: Hortis, C. Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 161614923X
- Language: English
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Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation
$11.99 Read more“Uplifting and memorable.”–School Library Journal (starred review)
“Great for reading aloud.”—Booklist (starred review)
Bestselling and multiple Coretta Scott King- and Caldecott-winners Andrea Davis
- Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0060821205
- Language: English
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China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China
$35.00 Read moreChina’s mid-twentieth-century wars pose extraordinary interpretive challenges. The issue is not just that the Chinese fought for such a long time–from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 unti
- Author: Van de Ven, Hans
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0674983505
- Language: English
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John Crow’s Devil
$18.95 Read more–Marlon James won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his third novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings.
–Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
“A powerful firs
- Author: James, Marlon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1936070103
- Language: English
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The Painted Word
$17.00 Read more“America’s nerviest journalist” (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this “masterpiece” (The Washington Post)
Wolfe’s style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He ad- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427581
- Language: English
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Korea 1950-53: B-29s, Thunderjets and Skyraiders Fight the Strategic Bombing Campaign
$25.00 Read moreA spectacularly illustrated new history and analysis of the strategic bombing campaign in the Korean War, which saw the last combat of America’s legendary B-29s.
Just five years after they defeated J- Series: Air Campaign #39
- Author: Napier, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1472855558
- Language: English
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Claudette Colvin Refuses to Move: Courageous Kid of the Civil Rights Movement
$8.99 Read moreIt’s March 2, 1955, and an ordinary 15-year-old girl from Montgomery, Alabama is about to do something extraordinary. When a white bus driver orders Claudette Colvin to give up her seat for a white pa… [more below]
- Series: Courageous Kids
- Author: Wilkins, Ebony Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496688031
- Language: English
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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
$22.00 Add to cartNearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035986
- Language: English
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Mister Death’s Blue-Eyed Girls
$10.99 Add to cartBased on an actual crime in 1955, this YA novel is at once a mystery and a coming-of-age story. The brutal murder of two teenage girls on the last day of Nora Cunningham’s junior year in high school t… [more below]
- Author: Hahn, Mary Downing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0544022246
- Language: English
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
$20.00 Read moreThe mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn of the civil rights movement–with a foreword by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
In August 1955, a fo- Author: Till-Mobley, Mamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0812970470
- Language: English
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The Korean War: A History
$22.00 Add to cartA BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED
For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Cumings, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 12 2011
- ISBN10: 081297896X
- Language: English
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Mississippi Trial, 1955
$9.99 Read moreWinner of the 2003 International Reading Association Award for Young Adult Novel. This gripping read is based on the true events of the murder of Emmett Till, one of the nation’s most notorious crimes… [more below]
- Author: Crowe, Chris
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 24 2003
- ISBN10: 0142501921
- Language: English
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Why Is Everybody Yelling?: Growing Up in My Immigrant Family
$17.99 Read more“A wonderful book about figuring out who we are and who we want to be when we grow up. It’s also about being an American–especially a first-generation American.” –Roz Chast
This graphic-novel debut- Author: Russo, Marisabina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1250894573
- Language: English
