Chronological Period/1980's
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Friday Night Lights (25th Anniversary Edition): A Town, a Team, and a Dream
$32.00 Add to cartNamed Sports Illustrated’s best football book of all time and a #1 NYT bestseller, this is the classic story of a high school football team whose win-loss record has a profound influence on the town a… [more below]
- Author: Bissinger, H. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0306824213
- Language: English
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The Line of Beauty
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the NBCC award. From Alan Hollinghurst, the acclaimed author of The Sparsholt Affair, The Line of Beauty is a sweep
- Author: Hollinghurst, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1582346100
- Language: English
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Not Without My Daughter: The Harrowing True Story of a Mother’s Courage
$12.99 Read moreNot Without My Daughter is the true story of a courageous mother and her breathtaking odyssey, now a major motion picture starring Academy Award-winner Sally Field!
In August 1984, Michigan housewife B- Author: Mahmoody, Betty
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 15 1991
- ISBN10: 0312925883
- Language: English
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The Portland Black Panthers: Empowering Albina and Remaking a City
$24.95 Add to cartPortland, Oregon, though widely regarded as a liberal bastion, also has struggled historically with ethnic diversity; indeed, the 2010 census found it to be “America’s whitest major city.” In early re
- Series: V Ethel Willis White Books
- Author: Burke, Lucas N. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0295742712
- Language: English
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Maribel Versus the Volcano: A Mount St. Helens Survival Story
$9.99 Add to cartIn 1980s Washington state, Mt. St. Helens is rumbling. Twelve-year-old Maribel isn’t concerned at first, despite officials evacuating her neighborhood. Her family is convinced it’s just a precaution, … [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Gómez, Sarah Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496599128
- Language: English
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The Breaks of the Game
$21.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, David Halberstam’s The Breaks of the Game focuses on one grim season (1979-80) in the life of the Bill Walton-led Portland Trail Blazers, a team that only three years befo… [more below]
- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1401309720
- Language: English
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
$21.99 Add to cartA Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe “mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system” in this “vividly empathetic” account of the worst nu… [more below]
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 154161707X
- Language: English
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Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
$20.00 Read moreThe New York Times best selling true story of an unlikely friendship forged between a woman and the man she incorrectly identified as her rapist and sent to prison for 11 years.
Jennifer Thompson was- Author: Thompson-Cannino, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0312599536
- Language: English
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Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980
$25.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020
From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power. Over- Author: Perlstein, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1120
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1476793069
- Language: English
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While I Was Away
$7.99 Add to cartNamed one of New York Public Library’s & Bank Street’s Best Books of the Year!
The Farewell meets Erin Entrada Kelly’s Blackbird Fly in this empowering middle grade memoir from debut author Waka T. Bro
- Author: Brown, Waka T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0063017121
- Language: English
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Permanent Record
$18.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he he- Author: Snowden, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1250772907
- Language: English
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Crabgrass: Comic Adventures Volume 1
$11.99 Add to cart“They say you can’t go home again. But that’s because they haven’t discovered Crabgrass. (Yet.) Every strip is like a visit from your best friend in grade school. The one who always got you in trouble… [more below]
- Series: Crabgrass
- Author: Bondia, Tauhid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1524875554
- Language: English
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Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea
$18.99 Add to cartNow in paperback, a true story as spellbinding and harrowing as The Perfect Storm, “marvel- ous and terrifying” (Los Angeles Times)–published to herald the arrival of Tougias’s new hardcover, The Fin… [more below]
- Author: Tougias, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0743297040
- Language: English
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Leaving Atlanta
$17.99 Read moreFrom the author of the Oprah’s Book Club Selection An American Marriage, here is a beautifully evocative novel that proves why Tayari Jones is “one of the most important voices of her generation” (Ess… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Tayari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1538742101
- Language: English
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Escape from East Berlin (Escape from #2)
$7.99 Add to cart“Nonstop action, real history, serious danger. You gotta read these books!” –Alan Gratz, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee
December, 1961
Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of bar
- Series: Escape from
- Author: Marino, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1338832042
- Language: English
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The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
$19.00 Add to cartIn this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tin… [more below]
- Author: Keefe, Patrick Radden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0307279278
- Language: English
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Not Your All-American Girl
$8.99 Add to cartA multicultural story full of heart and hilarity about what it means to be all-American.
Lauren and her best friend, Tara, have always done absolutely everything together. So when they don’t have any c… [more below]
- Author: Shang, Wendy Wan-Long
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1338037773
- Language: English
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1984: Introduction by Julian Symons
$26.00 Add to cartOne of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, Orwell’s cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state feels more relevant now than ever before.
Winston Smit… [more below]- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0679417397
- Language: English
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The Marriage Plot
$20.00 Add to cartA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Named a Best Book of the Year by
The New York Times Book Review – NPR – The New Republic – Salon – The Seattle Times – Houston Chronicle – The Miami Herald- Author: Eugenides, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 125001476X
- Language: English
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Night of the Twisters
$9.99 Add to cartStorm Chasers meets Stranger Things An action-packed coming-of-age story of both natural disaster and the bravery it takes to face it.
When a tornado watch is issued one Tuesday evening in June, twel
- Author: Ruckman, Ivy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 23 2003
- ISBN10: 0064401766
- Language: English
