Chronological Period/1960's
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A Dying Colonialism
$18.00 Add to cartFrantz Fanon’s seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution.
Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time,
- Series: Fanon, Frantz
- Author: Fanon, Frantz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 181
- Publish Date: January 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150276
- Language: English
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P.S. Be Eleven
$9.99 Add to cartThe Gaither sisters are at it again A sequel to the Newbery Honor Book One Crazy Summer, this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel will find a home in the hearts of readers who loved Brown Girl Dre
- Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 27, 2015
- ISBN10: 0061938645
- Language: English
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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
$35.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed book Oliver Stone called “the best account I have read of this tragedy and its significance,” JFK and the Unspeakable details not just how the conspiracy to assassinate President John F…. [more below]
- Author: Douglass, James W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 1570757550
- 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
$29.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller
-WINNER OF ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD FOR NONFICTION
-WINNER BLACK CAUCUS OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST NONFICTION BOOK
-WINNER NAACP IMAGE AWARD BEST NONFICTION BOOK
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 006236359X
- Language: English
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Inherent Vice
$19.00 Add to cart“The funniest book Pynchon has written.” — Rolling Stone
“Entertainment of a high order.” – Time Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon–private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally- Author: Pynchon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0143117564
- Language: English
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Neil Armstrong
$15.99 Add to cartIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon.
Little Neil’s d- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #82
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 16, 2022
- ISBN10: 0711271038
- Language: English
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How Little Lori Visited Times Square
$19.99 Add to cartA Sendak treasure long out of print available for the first time in decades.
- Author: Vogel, Amos
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 22 2001
- ISBN10: 0060284625
- Language: English
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Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America’s First Nuclear Accident
$19.95 Add to cartThe little-known true story of a mysterious nuclear reactor disaster — years before Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima
Before the Three Mile Island incident or the Chernobyl disaster, the wo
- Author: McKeown, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2003
- ISBN10: 1550225626
- Language: English
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Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
$18.99 Add to cartAn “engrossing and important book” (Wall Street Journal) that brings to life the fateful friendship between Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obno- Author: Roberts, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01, 2016
- ISBN10: 0465093221
- Language: English
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I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967: A Graphic Novel (I Survived Graphic Novel #5)
$10.99 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 Graphic Novels
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 1338766910
- Language: English
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We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
$17.99 Add to cart- Author: Cooper, Becky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1538746859
- Language: English
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The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
$19.99 Add to cartThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a
- Author: Jones, Chip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982107537
- Language: English
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Antes de Ser Libres
$11.99 Add to cartAnita de la Torre nunca cuestion su libertad viviendo en la Rep blica Dominicana. Pero al cumplir doce a os de edad en 1960, la mayor a de sus familiares han emigrado a Estados Unidos, su t o Toni ha
- Author: Alvarez, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 27, 2018
- ISBN10: 052557977X
- Language: Spanish
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
$18.99 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: 368
- Publish Date: December 06, 2016
- ISBN10: 0062363603
- Language: English
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The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed
$19.99 Read moreA New York Times Best Seller Implicating Robert F. Kennedy in Marilyn Monroe’s murder, this is the first book to name the LAPD officers who accompanied him to her home, provide details about how the
- Author: Margolis, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: September 20, 2016
- ISBN10: 1510702342
- Language: English
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Ordinary Grace
$18.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Kr
WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD
A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013- Author: Krueger, William Kent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1451645856
- Language: English
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Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
$8.99 Read moreIn this inspiring collection of true stories, thirty African-Americans who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South-to s
- Author: Levine, Ellen S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01, 2000
- ISBN10: 0698118707
- Language: English
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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
$19.98 Add to cartThe saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American pol… [more below]
- Author: Arsenault, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0199754314
- Language: English
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Original Gangster: The Real Life Story of One of America’s Most Notorious Drug Lords
$20.00 Add to cartA suspenseful memoir from the real life American gangster, Frank Lucas
In his own words, Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the la- Author: Lucas, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16, 2011
- ISBN10: 031257164X
- Language: English
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Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement
$19.95 Add to cartTexas native James Farmer is one of the “Big Four” of the turbulent 1960s civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young. Farmer might be called the forgotten
- Author: Farmer, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: June 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 0875651887
- Language: English
