Chronological Period/1950's
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The Fairy Tale Girl
$28.95 Add to cartBased on the diaries Susan Branch has kept since she was in her twenties, The Fairy Tale Girl is an illustrated memoir, designed in Susan’s trademark style with original watercolors and personal photo… [more below]
- Author: Branch, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0996044019
- Language: English
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
$22.00 Add to cartNational Book Award Finalist
TIME Magazine’s #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012
Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain De… [more below]- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 140009593X
- Language: English
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The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958: Vol. 4 Hardcover Edition
$29.99 Add to cartAs the 1950s close down, Peanuts definitively enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to speak in the previous volume, becomes downright eloquent and even begins to fend off Lucy’s bullying… [more below]
- Series: Complete Peanuts #0
- Author: Schulz, Charles M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1560976705
- Language: English
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The Aleppo Codex: In Pursuit of One of the World’s Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books
$19.99 Add to cart“A brilliant non-fiction thriller about an ancient copy of the Torah. Highly recommended.”
Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousan
–Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist- Author: Friedman, Matti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2013
- ISBN10: 1616202785
- Language: English
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The Memory of Old Jack
$15.95 Add to cartOld Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beautiful September day in Port William, his home since birth, remembering.
The story tells of the most sea- Series: Port William
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 08 1999
- ISBN10: 1582430438
- Language: English
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Gidget
$14.00 Add to cartA surfing, boy-crazy teenager comes of age in the summer of 1957 in this classic novel that inspired both movies and television and created an American pop culture icon.
“My English comp teacher Mr. G- Author: Kohner, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 2001
- ISBN10: 425179621
- Language: English
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The Apprentices
$10.99 Add to cartTwo years have passed since Janie Scott last saw Benjamin Burrows, the mysterious apothecary’s defiant son who stole her heart. On the other side of the world, Benjamin and his father are treating the… [more below]
- Series: Apothecary #2
- Author: Meloy, Maile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 17 2014
- ISBN10: 0142425982
- Language: English
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Disney’s Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
$21.00 Add to cartA propulsive and “entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) history chronicling the conception and creation of the iconic Disneyland theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Sn… [more below]
- Author: Snow, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1501190814
- Language: English
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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
$20.00 Add to cartMLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott.
A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the succe- Series: King Legacy (Paperback) #1
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0807000698
- Language: English
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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam
$25.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how an- Author: Logevall, Fredrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0375756477
- Language: English
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The Complete Peanuts 1955-1956: Vol. 3 Hardcover Edition
$29.99 Add to cartThe third volume in our acclaimed series takes us into the mid-1950s as Linus learns to talk, Snoopy begins to explore his eccentricities (including his hilarious first series of impressions), Lucy’s … [more below]
- Series: Complete Peanuts #0
- Author: Schulz, Charles M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 17 2005
- ISBN10: 1560976470
- Language: English
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Sgt. Reckless: America’s War Horse
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
She wasn’t a horse–she was a Marine. She might not have been much to look at–a small “Mongolian mare,” they called her–but she came from racing stock, and had the blood- Author: Hutton, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1621573818
- Language: English
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The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
$19.00 Add to cartA gut-clenching and meticulously detailed (USA Today) account from the Korean War and how Captain William Barber led 246 courageous Marines of the Seventh Marine Regiment in the perilous defense of Fo
- Author: Drury, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0802144519
- Language: English
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Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott
$17.99 Add to cartThis stunning picture book looks into the life of Georgia Gilmore, a hidden figure of history who played a critical role in the civil rights movement and used her passion for baking to help the Montgo… [more below]
- Author: Romito, Dee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1499807201
- Language: English
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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
$17.95 Add to cartThe Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge–decades before Facebook, Amazon, an… [more below]
- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1324091126
- Language: English
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One 1929-1964: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction
$25.99 Add to cartThe definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929-1964.
This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered ve- Series: SF Hall of Fame #1
- Author: Silverberg, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0765305372
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Korea: Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
$15.99 Add to cartExploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and united culture that has become two Koreas in modern times–one iso… [more below]
- Series: Brief History of Asia
- Author: Seth, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0804851026
- Language: English
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Suspect Red
$8.99 Add to cartIt’s 1953, and the United States has just executed an American couple convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Everyone is on edge as the Cold War standoff between communism and democracy leads to th
- Author: Elliott, L. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 18, 2018
- ISBN10: 1423159837
- Language: English
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Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High
$18.99 Add to cartIn this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most powerful figures, Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine explores not only the oppressive force of racism, b… [more below]
- Author: Beals, Melba Pattillo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0671866397
- Language: English
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Stolen Girl
$8.99 Add to cartA companion to Making Bombs for Hitler and The War Below, this novel follows a Ukrainian girl who was kidnapped as a child to be raised by a Nazi family.
Nadia is haunted by World War II. Her memories … [more below]
- Author: Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1338665146
- Language: English
