Chronological Period/1960's
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She’s Come Undone
$18.99 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestselling extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine… [more below]
- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Lamb, Wally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 1, 1996
- ISBN10: 0671003755
- Language: English
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I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967: A Graphic Novel (I Survived Graphic Novel #5)
$24.99 Add to cartA gripping graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis’s bestselling I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967, with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by Berat Pekmezci.
No grizzly has ever killed
- Series: I Survived Graphix
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1338766937
- Language: English
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The Rum Diary
$18.00 Add to cartMade into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary–a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book–is Hunter S. Thompson’s brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and vi… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0684856476
- Language: English
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The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War
$24.99 Add to cart“The WikiLeaks of its day” (Time) is as relevant today in the time of Trump as it was a in the time of Richard Nixon. “The most significant leaks of classified material in American history.” –Washingt… [more below]
- Author: Sheehan, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1631582925
- Language: English
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Okay for Now: A National Book Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartBeloved author Gary D. Schmidt expertly blends comedy and tragedy in the story of Doug Swieteck, an unhappy “teenage thug” first introduced in The Wednesday Wars, who finds consolation and a sense of
- Author: Schmidt, Gary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 5-Feb-13
- ISBN10: 0544022807
- Language: English
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In Cold Blood
$28.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote–also available are B- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 19, 2013
- ISBN10: 0812994388
- Language: English
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Root Magic
$9.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0062899597
- Language: English
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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
$21.99 Add to cartBased on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians
The American Empire Project
Winner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Dist- Series: American Empire Project
- Author: Turse, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 31, 2013
- ISBN10: 1250045061
- Language: English
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Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 – With Great Power…
$15.99 Read moreCollects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #1-10, material from Amazing Fantasy (1962) #15. The stories that built the Marvel Universe, from the brilliant minds of legendary creators – now available in a new … [more below]
- Author: Lee, Stan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1302929771
- Language: English
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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love
$21.99 Add to cartThe critically acclaimed, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller–a gripping story of the strife and tragedy that led to San Francisco’s ultimate rebirth and triumph.
Salon founder David Talbot chronicles- Author: Talbot, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 05, 2013
- ISBN10: 1439108242
- Language: English
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The Seventh Most Important Thing
$8.99 Add to cartThis “luminescent” (Kirkus Reviews) story of anger and art, loss and redemption will appeal to fans of Lisa Graff’s Lost in the Sun and Vince Vawter’s Paperboy.
NOMINATED FOR 16 STATE AWARDS
AN ALA NO- Author: Pearsall, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0553497316
- Language: English
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The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
$23.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER.
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Winner of the 2021 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction. One of The Wa- Author: Cervini, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798507
- Language: English
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Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
$21.00 Add to cartThis New York Times bestselling memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both
- Author: Kranz, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 23, 2009
- ISBN10: 1439148813
- Language: English
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I Am Ruby Bridges
$18.99 Add to cartRuby Bridges tells her story as never before and shares the events of the momentous day in 1960 when Ruby became the first Black child to integrate the all-white William Franz Elementary as a six year
- Author: Bridges, Ruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1338753886
- Language: English
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
$16.95 Add to cart“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.” -Combahee River Collective Statement
- Author: Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1608468550
- Language: English
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Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
$19.00 Add to cartGonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels–Hell’s Angels, that is–in this short work of nonfiction.
“California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog- Author: Thompson, Hunter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 29 1996
- ISBN10: 0345410084
- Language: English
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963
$8.99 Add to cartDuring one of the most important times in the civil rights movement, one unforgettable family goes on a road trip in this Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree, from author Christopher Paul Curtis, r
- Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 08, 1997
- ISBN10: 0440414121
- Language: English
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Hellhound on His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the country and mourner… [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0307387437
- Language: English
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this prophe… [more below]
- Series: King Legacy (Paperback) #2
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0807000671
- Language: English
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Nervous Conditions
$17.00 Add to cartA modern classic from the Booker-shortlisted author of This Mournable Body
The groundbreaking first novel in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s award-winning trilogy, Nervous Conditions, won the Commonwealth Writer- Series: Nervous Conditions
- Author: Dangarembga, Tsitsi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 18, 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450712
- Language: English
