Chronological Period/1980's
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Rough Draft: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s a hell of a story.” –The New York Times “A stunning and revelatory memoir.” –Oprah Daily From MSNBC anchor and instant New York Times bestselling author Katy … [more below]
- Author: Tur, Katy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1982118199
- Language: English
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Mafia Prince: Inside America’s Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra
$19.99 Add to cartA first-person account of the violent downfall of the traditional American Mafia in the final heyday of the 1980s.
- Author: Leonetti, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0762454318
- Language: English
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Mississippi River Festival
$31.99 Add to cartIn 1969, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville initiated a remarkable performing arts series called the Mississippi River Festival. Over 12 summer seasons, between 1969 and 1980, the festival pres… [more below]
- Author: Bahr-Evola, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 29 2006
- ISBN10: 1531624936
- Language: English
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Holding the Line
$20.95 Add to cartHolding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver’s first non-fiction book, is the story of women’s lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and par
- Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: December 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0801483891
- Language: English
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A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and Us Latinidad
$25.95 Add to cartIn A Kiss across the Ocean Richard T. Rodr?uez examines the relationship between British post-punk musicians and their Latinx audiences in the United States since the 1980s. Melding memoir with cultur… [more below]
- Author: RodrÃguez, Richard T
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1478018585
- Language: English
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Hezbollah: A Short History Updated and Expanded Third Edition
$19.95 Add to cartFeaturing a new prologue and conclusion and two new chapters on recent developments
With Hezbollah’s entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the p- Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics #69
- Author: Norton, Augustus Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0691180881
- Language: English
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The Hate Factory: A First-Hand Account of the 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico
$15.95 Add to cartThe terror lasted for thirty-six hours. When it was over, thirty-three inmates were dead, all at the hands of their fellow convicts. It was an outbreak of inmate violence unequaled in the annals of pr… [more below]
- Author: Hirliman, Georgelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: August 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0595366694
- Language: English
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We’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement
$24.95 Add to cartWe’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a
Movement is the first book-length treatment of the roots and rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,- Author: Grim, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1947492373
- Language: English
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
$17.99 Add to cart*Now a major motion picture–Rob Peace–starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1476731918
- Language: English
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The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey
$20.99 Add to cartA fascinating and authoritative narrative history of the V-22 Osprey, revealing the inside story of the most controversial piece of military hardware ever developed for the U.S. Marine Corps.
When the- Author: Whittle, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 17 2011
- ISBN10: 1416562966
- Language: English
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You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
$16.00 Add to cartYou can quote lines from Sixteen Candles (“Last night at the dancemy little brother paid a buck to see your underwear”), your iPod playlist includes more than one song by the Psychedelic Furs and Simp… [more below]
- Author: Gora, Susannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0307716600
- Language: English
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Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
$16.99 Add to cartIn Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and tragic death of acclaimed actor River Phoenix–a teen idol on the fast track to Hollywood r
- Author: Edwards, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0062273175
- Language: English
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A Wall of White: The True Story of Heroism and Survival in the Face of a Deadly Avalanche
$17.99 Add to cartThis “mesmerizing tale of human courage and heroism” (Nando Parrado, author of Miracle in the Andes) follows the astonishing ordeal of survival during an avalanche in California.
In 1982, at the Alpi- Author: Woodlief, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1416546944
- Language: English
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Marina
$34.99 Add to cartCarlos Ruiz Zafon’s haunting gothic mystery, which has long been a cult classic in Spain and is now an international bestseller. “We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our sou… [more below]
- Author: Zafon, Carlos Ruiz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0316044717
- Language: English
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Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer
$21.99 Add to cartThe horrific true story of serial kidnapper, rapist, and killer Robert Hansen’s reign of terror
As oil-boom money poured into Anchorage, Alaska the city quickly became a prime destination for the see- Author: Gilmour, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1504049489
- Language: English
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Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
$32.00 Add to cartWhat they didn’t want you to know
“We all watched in shock and disbelief when Challenger was lost. Probably no one felt more disappointment and regret than Allan McDonald, who had warned us not to laun
- Author: McDonald, Allan J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: April 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0813041937
- Language: English
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The Berlin Wall: August 13, 1961 – November 9, 1989
$21.99 Add to cart“This vivid account of the Wall and all that it meant reminds us that symbolism can be double-edged, as a potent emblem of isolation and repression became, in its destruction, an even more powerful to
- Author: Taylor, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0062985884
- Language: English
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Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects-Revised & Updated
$24.99 Add to cartA guide to the decline of the American empire for individuals, families and communities
The United States is in steep decline. Plagued by runaway debt, a shrinking economy, and environmental catastr
- Author: Orlov, Dmitry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0865716854
- Language: English
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Forbidden City
$8.99 Read moreSeventeen-year-old Alex Jackson comes home from school to find that his father, a CBC news cameraman, wants to take him to China’s capital, Beijing. Once there, Alex finds himself on his own in Tian A… [more below]
- Series: Laurel-Leaf Books
- Author: Bell, William
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 10 1996
- ISBN10: 0440226791
- Language: English
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
$35.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. – LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUME… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0385517238
- Language: English
