Chronological Period/1960's
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Moon’s First Friends: One Giant Leap for Friendship
$17.99 Read moreA New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller! Delight in this heartwarming picture book about a moon who just wants a friend… the perfect Earth Day gift!
Commemorate the extraordinary 50th ann
- Author: Hill, Susanna Leonard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 4, 2019
- ISBN10: 1492656801
- Language: English
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The Help
$35.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film–a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t–nominated as one of America’s b… [more below]
- Author: Stockett, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 10, 2009
- ISBN10: 0399155341
- Language: English
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The Complete Book of the SR-71 Blackbird: The Illustrated Profile of Every Aircraft, Crew, and Breakthrough of the World’s Fastest Stealth Jet
$50.00 Add to cartThe ultimate SR-71 book which profiles the history, development, manufacture, modification, and active service of all 50 models in the SR-71 program.
At the height of the Cold War in 1964, President Jo
- Author: Graham, Richard H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0760348499
- Language: English
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
$19.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space–a powerful, revel
- Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0062677284
- Language: English
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A Voyage for Madmen
$18.99 Add to cart“An extraordinary story of bravery and insanity on the high seas. . . . One of the most gripping sea stories I have ever read.” — Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm
In the tradition of Into
- Author: Nichols, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 4, 2002
- ISBN10: 0060957034
- Language: English
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
$24.99 Add to cartAn absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, p
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: October 15, 2019
- ISBN10: 0062405675
- Language: English
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Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock ‘n Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
$22.00 Add to cartWhen the low-budget biker movie Easy Rider shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born. This was an age when talented young filmmakers such as Scorsese, Coppola, and Spiel… [more below]
- Author: Biskind, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 4, 1999
- ISBN10: 0684857081
- Language: English
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What Was the March on Washington?
$7.99 Add to cartOn August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, to demand equal rights for all races. It was there that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, and it wa… [more below]
- Series: What Was?
- Author: Krull, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0448462877
- Language: English
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Leroy Grannis. Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s
$40.00 Read moreAt a time when surfing is more popular than ever, it’s fitting to look back at the years that brought the sport into the mainstream. Developed by Hawaiian Islanders over five centuries ago, surfing be
- Author: Barilotti, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 15 2018
- ISBN10: 3836566796
- Language: English
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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The first comprehensive account of the epoch-making Six-Day War, from the author of Ally—now featuring a fiftieth-anniversary retrospective
Though it lasted for only six- Author: Oren, Michael B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 03 2003
- ISBN10: 0345461924
- Language: English
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The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
$18.00 Add to cartThe powerful story of the women who founded and ran the legendary Chicago reproductive rights organization Abortion Counseling Service, otherwise known as Jane, written by one of its members. A compel… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0593471083
- Language: English
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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys
$24.00 Add to cartReissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moon
The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the
- Author: Collins, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 0374537763
- Language: English
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Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968
$17.99 Add to cartCoretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book – School Library Journal Best Book of the Year – Booklist Editors’ Choice – Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Book – Booklist Top 10 Diverse Books for Middle Gra… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, Alice Faye
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1629797189
- Language: English
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Kira-Kira
$8.99 Add to cartkira-kira (kee ra kee ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That’s how Katie Takeshima’s sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same … [more below]
- Author: Kadohata, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 689856407
- Language: English
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Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest
$18.99 Add to cartOn November 21, 1961, Michael C. Rockefeller, the twenty-three-year-old son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, vanished off the coast of southwest New Guinea when his boat capsized. He was on a
- Author: Hoffman, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 10, 2015
- ISBN10: 0062116169
- Language: English
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Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
$19.99 Add to cart“An extraordinary delight for a reader of any age.” —The New York Times Book Review
Brian Floca explores Apollo 11’s famed moon landing with this newly expanded edition of Moonshot Simply told, gran- Series: Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover)
- Author: Floca, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: April 9, 2019
- ISBN10: 1534440305
- Language: English
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Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
$10.99 Add to cartPublishers Weekly Best Book * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children’s Book * ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice
In the tradition of The Diary of Anne Frank and I Am Malala, this is the incred
- Author: Jiang, Ji-Li
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0064462080
- Language: English
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The Phoenix Program
$18.99 Add to cartAn important work. –John Prados, author of President’s Secret Wars
“This definitive account of the Phoenix program, the US attempt to destroy the Viet Cong through torture and summary execution, rem- Author: Valentine, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: September 27, 2016
- ISBN10: 1504032888
- Language: English
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Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
$19.99 Read moreBased on a hit podcast series, this book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall–the people who built it, the spy who betrayed it, and the media event it inspired.… [more below]
- Author: Merriman, Helena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1541788834
- Language: English
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Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
$17.99 Add to cartGlamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up
Required to have a college degree, speak two lan… [more below]
- Author: Cooke, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0358699185
- Language: English
