Chronological Period/1950's
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Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War’s Greatest Untold Story — The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company
$19.99 Add to cartAn epic story of valor and sacrifice by a legendary Marine company in the Korean War brought to gripping, cinematic light by an acclaimed historian (“Gives the brave Marines of George Company long ove… [more below]
- Author: O’Donnell, Patrick K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0306820447
- Language: English
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Spider Eaters: A Memoir
$29.95 Add to cartSpider Eaters is at once a moving personal story, a fascinating family history, and a unique chronicle of political upheaval told by a Chinese woman who came of age during the turbulent years of the C… [more below]
- Author: Yang, Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0520276027
- Language: English
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Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
$19.95 Read moreIn his short 37 years, John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons embodied at least several different roles in one tormented but glorious life.
By day, Parsons’ unorthodox genius created a solid rocket fuel that h… [more below]- Author: Carter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0922915970
- Language: English
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La Espera / The Waiting
$27.95 Read moreMEJOR C?MIC DEL A?O The Washington Post / Forbes / Publishers Weekly
FINALISTA Harvey Award / LA Times Book Prize El
PREMIOS Freeman Awards / YALSA Book Award / Cartoonist Studio Prize / Prix BDGest’- Author: Gendry-Kim, Keum Suk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 8418897775
- Language: Spanish
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King: The Complete Edition: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$29.99 Read more- Author: Anderson, Ho Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: February 17 2005
- ISBN10: 1560976225
- Language: English
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The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
$22.00 Add to cart“Rice’s remarkable gift for creating singular characters in this memorable story underscores her presence as a fresh new voice in fiction.”–Publishers Weekly
Set in 1950s London, The Lost Art of Keep- Author: Rice, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0452288096
- Language: English
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Absolute Beginners
$16.95 Add to cartLondon, 1958. In the smoky jazz clubs of Soho and the coffee bars of Notting Hill the young and the restless – the absolute beginners – are forging a new carefree lifestyle of sex, drugs and rock’n’ro… [more below]
- Series: Allison & Busby Classics
- Author: MacInnes, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0749009985
- Language: English
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Tigers in Red Weather
$15.00 Add to cartNick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha’s Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In th… [more below]
- Author: Klaussmann, Liza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 18 2013
- ISBN10: 031621132X
- Language: English
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Sea of Lost Love
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the author of The Gypsy Madonna and The Last Voyage of the Valentina, a breathless novel that sweeps its heroine from the Cornish coast to the rugged beauty of Puglia Italy, where she discovers a… [more below]
- Author: Montefiore, Santa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1416543732
- Language: English
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Night of Many Dreams
$22.00 Add to cartNight of Many Dreams is the bestselling novel from Gail Tsukiyama that tells the tale of two sisters separated by ambition, bound by tradition
As World War II threatens their comfortable life in Hong K- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0312199406
- Language: English
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Flesh Wounds: An Inspector Troy Novel
$16.00 Add to cartPraised for their riveting, ingenious plot twists, John Lawton’s series of espionage thrillers featuring Chief Inspector Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard have an uncanny ability to place readers in the… [more below]
- Author: Lawton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: January 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142303
- Language: English
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Silver Swan
$23.99 Add to cartIt has been two years since the events of Christine Falls, the bestselling novel that introduced the world to an irascible Dublin pathologist named Quirke. Quirke’s beloved Sarah has died, his surroga
- Series: Quirke #2
- Author: Black, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0312428243
- Language: English
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Desert of the Heart
$17.95 Add to cartEvelyn Hall arrives in Reno wanting only to be left alone while she waits six weeks for a painful divorce from her husband. Once there she meets Ann Child – 15 years her junior, who is both a free spi
- Author: Rule, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 159493035X
- Language: English
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An Artist of the Floating World
$26.00 Add to cartThe Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel by 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Kazuo Ishiguro From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers–featuring cover art by Jessica … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Drop Caps
- Author: Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124285
- Language: English
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Beebo Brinker
$19.95 Add to cartDesignated the “Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction” for authoring five landmark novels beginning in 1957, Ann Bannon’s work defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. Unlike many writers of … [more below]
- Series: Lesbian Pulp Fiction
- Author: Bannon, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: May 16 2001
- ISBN10: 1573441252
- Language: English
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The Dangerous Summer
$19.00 Add to cartExperience Hemingway’s firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights in Spain.
In the 1950s, Hemingway and his wife return to Spain, where Hemingway had visited before as a war correspondent to- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 09 1997
- ISBN10: 0684837897
- Language: English
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Frances and Bernard
$14.99 Add to cartFrances and Bernard meet in the summer of 1957. Afterward, he writes her a letter. Soon they are immersed in the kind of fast, deep friendship that can change the course of our lives.
They find their w… [more below]
- Author: Bauer, Carlene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0544105176
- Language: English
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War Trash
$21.00 Add to cartHa Jin’s masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War. In 1951 Yu Yuan, a scholarl… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Jin, Ha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 10 2005
- ISBN10: 1400075793
- Language: English
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Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury’s Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland
$17.99 Add to cartIn 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe’s quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary
- Author: Bradbury, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0380789663
- Language: English
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American Noir: 11 Classic Crime Novels of the 1930s, 40s, & 50s: A Library of America Boxed Set
$85.00 Add to cartCollects:
CRIME NOVELS: AMERICAN NOIR OF THE 1930s & 40s
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy
Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson
The Big Clock by … [more below]- Author: Polito, Robert
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 1882
- Publish Date: April 12 2012
- ISBN10: 1598531530
- Language: English
