Chronological Period/1970's
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A Golden Age
$17.99 Add to cart“Spellbinding . . . . Anam has written a story about powerful events. But it is her descriptions of the small, unheralded moments . . . that truly touch the heart.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Tahmima An
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Anam, Tahmima
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 006147875X
- Language: English
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The Last Juror
$35.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – In 1970, one of Mississippi’s more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 y… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 355
- Publish Date: February 03 2004
- ISBN10: 385510438
- Language: English
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Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s (Loa #183): Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman
$40.00 Add to cartJonathan Lethem, editor
“The most outr? science fiction writer of the 20th century has finally entered the canon,” exclaimed Wired Magazine upon The Library of America’s May 2007 publication of Phili- Series: Library of America #2
- Author: Lethem, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1000
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1598530259
- Language: English
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Perfection: The Inside Story of the 1972 Miami Dolphins’ Perfect Season
$28.99 Add to cartThe inside story of the only undefeated team in NFL history, the 1972 Miami Dolphins–by the Hall of Fame quarterback who led it to victory
Hall of Fame quarterback and long-time ABC college football a
- Author: Griese, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1118218094
- Language: English
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The Mirror
$26.99 Add to cartIn this twisting time-travel thriller, a woman faints on the eve of her wedding–and awakens at the turn of the century in her grandmother’s body . . .
The night before she is supposed to get married- Author: Millhiser, Marlys
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1504049330
- Language: English
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Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
$20.99 Add to cartFeaturing extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue–bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implic… [more below]
- Author: Kotkin, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0195368630
- Language: English
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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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Monster
$16.95 Read moreIn the 25th anniversary of this true crime masterpiece, acclaimed author Steve Jackson recounts the intriguing pursuit and long awaited conviction of a charismatic, monstrous psychopath.
On a snowy wi- Author: Jackson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0806543558
- Language: English
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Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
$21.00 Add to cartThe story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis during the civil rights movement. Their success soon pit
- Author: Gordon, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1608194167
- Language: English
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Runnin’ with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen
$19.99 Add to cartThe manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom goes behind the scenes to tell the complete, unadulterated story of David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, and the legendary band that cha
- Author: Monk, Noel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 006247412X
- Language: English
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We Want to Go to School!: The Fight for Disability Rights
$17.99 Add to cartA Junior Library Guild Selection February 2022
The true story of the people who helped make every public school a more inclusive place.There was a time in the United States when millions of children w
- Author: Cocca-Leffler, Maryann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0807535184
- Language: English
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Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
$11.99 Read more2007 Sibert Medal Winner
“This excellent book will walk the reader step by step through man’s first landing on the moon. With photos and text, Catherine Thimmesh accurately portrays the accomplishmen- Author: Thimmesh, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 054458239X
- Language: English
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Everything Good Will Come
$17.95 Add to cartA powerful story about two friends negotiating the politics of their nation, Sefi Atta’s coming-of-age narrative is written with lyrical wisdom and brilliant insight.
With insight and a lyrical wisdo- Author: Atta, Sefi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1623711045
- Language: English
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On Sal Mal Lane
$20.00 Add to cartIn the tradition of In the Time of the Butterflies and The Kite Runner, a tender, evocative novel about the years leading up to the Sri Lankan civil war
* A Library Journal Best Indie Fiction of 2013
- Author: Freeman, Ru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 155597676X
- Language: English
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Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
$12.99 Add to cartThe summer of 1972, before I turned nine, danger began knocking on doors all over China.
Nine-year-old Ling has a very happy life. Her parents are both dedicated surgeons at the best hospital in Wuhan- Author: Compestine, Ying Chang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0312581491
- Language: English
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Apollo Expeditions to the Moon: The NASA History 50th Anniversary Edition
$45.00 Add to cartThis special edition of Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, an official NASA publication, commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the July 20, 1969, Moon landing with a thrilling insider’s view of the s… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Astronomy
- Author: Cortright, Edgar M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0486836525
- Language: English
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The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability
$28.95 Add to cartFrom the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some of feminism’s most complex conversations. Kristen Hogan traces the femin… [more below]
- Author: Hogan, Kristen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0822361299
- Language: English
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Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
$19.99 Add to cartFinalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia-… [more below]
- Author: Greene, Melissa Fay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0306815176
- Language: English
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Brown Girl Dreaming
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner
Raised in Sout
Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Red at the Bone, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.- Author: Woodson, Jacqueline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0399252517
- Language: English
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Gateway to the Moon: Building the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex
$28.00 Add to cartGateway to the Moon presents the definitive history of the origins, design, and construction of the lunar launch facilities at Kennedy Space Center, the terrestrial site of one of the greatest achieve… [more below]
- Author: Benson, Charles D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: March 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0813020913
- Language: English
