Chronological Period/1960's
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The Bartender’s Tale
$18.00 Add to cartA national bestseller, the story of “a boy’s last days of youth and a history his father can’t leave behind” (The Daily Beast).
Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable b- Series: Two Medicine Country
- Author: Doig, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1594631484
- Language: English
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Ball Four: The Final Pitch
$33.99 Add to cart50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
New York Public Library Book of the Century Selection
Time Magazine “100 Greatest Non-Fiction Books” Selection
New Foreword from Jim Bouton’s Wife, Paula Bouton
When Ball Four was… [more below]- Author: Bouton, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1630260347
- Language: English
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
$28.00 Add to cartIn Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account… [more below]
- Series: America in the King Years
- Author: Branch, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: November 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0671687425
- Language: English
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A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
$32.95 Add to cartDuring the West’s great transition into the post-Colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1970s fought back almost alone against Communist-supported element… [more below]
- Author: Wessels, Hannes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 19 2015
- ISBN10: 1612003451
- Language: English
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The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976
$20.00 Add to cartThe concluding volume–following Mao’s Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation–in Frank Dik tter’s award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China.
After the economic disaster- Author: Dik?tter, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1632864231
- Language: English
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Root Magic
$16.99 Add to cart“A poignant, necessary entry into the children’s literary canon, Root Magic brings to life the history and culture of Gullah people while highlighting the timeless plight of Black Americans. Add in a
- Author: Royce, Eden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0062899570
- Language: English
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A Sport and a Pastime
$18.00 Add to cart“As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know,” is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty yea… [more below]
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Salter, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 22 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530505
- Language: English
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
$23.99 Add to cartNow in paperback, an award-winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s rac
- Author: Brinkley, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062655078
- Language: English
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The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
$12.99 Add to cartOne of America’s most influential Hispanics — ‘Maria’ on Sesame Street — presents a powerful novel set in New York’s El Barrio in 1969.
There are two secrets Evelyn Serrano is keeping from her Mami a… [more below]
- Author: Manzano, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 0545325064
- Language: English
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
$26.00 Read more“Perlstein…aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. His success is dazzling.” —Los Angeles Times
“Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of mo- Author: Perlstein, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 074324303X
- Language: English
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Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam
$17.99 Add to cartHow two Vietnam POWs, one white and one black, formed an unexpected friendship that saved them both: “A moving story.”–John McCain
Fred Cherry was one of the few black pilots taken prisoner by the Vie… [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, James S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: January 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0618562109
- Language: English
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Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
$24.99 Add to cartAcclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed… [more below]
- Author: Perlstein, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1568584121
- Language: English
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When Evil Came to Good Hart, 10th Anniversary Edition
$22.95 Read moreIn this page-turning true-life whodunit, author Mardi Link looks into the cold-case files of the murders of a wealthy Detroit-area family in their northern Michigan cabin in 1968, detailing and review
- Author: Link, Mardi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0472037226
- Language: English
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Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
$22.99 Add to cartIn Like Dreamers, acclaimed journalist Yossi Klein Halevi interweaves the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem, tracing the history of Israel and the divergent ideologies sha
- Author: Halevi, Yossi Klein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0060545771
- Language: English
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The Happy Hooker: My Own Story
$16.99 Add to cartThe 30th anniversary edition of one of the modern classics of the sexual revolution–with a new Afterword by the author.
An international phenomenon upon its initial publication in 1972, The Happy Hook
- Author: Hollander, Xaviera
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04, 2002
- ISBN10: 0060014164
- Language: English
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Outer Banks
$18.99 Add to cart“Captures the richness and complication of female friendships in a way few writers have done. . . incredibly rich characterizations and a profound sense of place.” — Cosmopolitan
In her magnificent cl
- Author: Siddons, Anne Rivers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 18 2008
- ISBN10: 0060538066
- Language: English
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Waiting
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the PEN/Faulkner Award – National Book Award Winner – Pulitzer Prize Finalist – A New York Times Notable Book
From the widely acclaimed author–a rich and atmospheric novel about a man living… [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Jin, Ha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 19 2000
- ISBN10: 0375706410
- Language: English
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Escape from Alcatraz: The Mystery of the Three Men Who Escaped from the Rock
$12.99 Add to cartWhat’s more exciting than a prison break? Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz in 1962 and have never been caught. Many authorities are certain they died crossing San Franci… [more below]
- Series: Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Stories
- Author: Braun, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 151574552X
- Language: English
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11/22/63
$40.00 Add to cartStephen King’s #1 bestselling time-travel novel–now a limited series on Hulu starring James Franco!
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed- Author: King, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1451627289
- Language: English
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Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartPublishers Weekly Best Book * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children’s Book * ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice
Moving, honest, and deeply personal, Red Scarf Girl is the incredible true stor
- Author: Jiang, Ji-Li
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 1997
- ISBN10: 0060275855
- Language: English
