Chronological Period/20th Century
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How to Listen to Jazz
$18.99 Add to cartA “radiantly accomplished” music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz (Wall Street Journal)
In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia prese- Author: Gioia, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0465093493
- Language: English
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America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones
$19.95 Read moreTakes a behind-the-scenes look at Yale’s mysterious society, the Order of the Skull and Bones, and its prominent members, numbering among them Tafts, Rockefellers, Pillsburys, and Bushes. This book re… [more below]
- Author: Sutton, Antony C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 317
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0972020748
- Language: English
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History Comics: The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights
$13.99 Add to cartTurn back the clock with History Comics! In this graphic novel, experience the Stonewall Riots firsthand and meet iconic activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.
Three teenagers–Natalia, Ja- Series: History Comics
- Author: Bongiovanni, Archie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1250618355
- Language: English
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Love Is in the Air: The Story of Aviation Pioneer Nancy Harkness Love
$18.99 Read moreTake off with Nancy Harkness Love, first female pilot to serve in the Army Air Forces and founder of the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) during World War II, in this picture book biography … [more below]
- Author: Romito, Dee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1534484191
- Language: English
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Heaven to Betsy and Betsy in Spite of Herself
$22.00 Add to cart“Some characters become your friends for life. That’s how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.” –Judy Blume
With a Foreword by Laura Lippman
These two books in Maud Hart Lovelace’s beloved Betsy-Tacy series:
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lovelace, Maud Hart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0061794694
- Language: English
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Billy and the Minpins
$7.99 Add to cartOne of Dahl’s beloved stories available for the first time in novel format and newly illustrated by Quentin Blake
Billy’s mum says he must never go out through the garden gate and explore the dark fo- Author: Dahl, Roald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 059311342X
- Language: English
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True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America
$35.00 Read moreA celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey’s role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America
Hubert Humphrey was liberalism’s most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrific- Author: Traub, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619579
- Language: English
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All-Of-A-Kind Family Downtown
$12.95 Read moreElla, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie are back In the fourth entry in the All-of-a-Kind Family series–set right after the first book–Charlie is growing up. Ella gets a big role in the Purim pla
- Author: Taylor, Sydney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1939601258
- Language: English
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The Tobacco Wives
$27.99 Read moreMost anticipated by USA Today, W Magazine, New York Post, Parade, Bustle, Buzzfeed, Reader’s Digest, and PopSugar and named one of the best historical fiction books of the year by Cosmopolitan!
“A bea
- Author: Myers, Adele
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0063082934
- Language: English
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Luck of the Titanic
$12.99 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl comes the richly imagined story of Valora and Jamie Luck, twin British-Chinese acrobats traveling aboard the Titanic on its ill-fated … [more below]
- Author: Lee, Stacey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1524741000
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
$21.99 Add to cartA candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt.
The daughter of one o
- Author: Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0062355910
- Language: English
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The Ship of Brides
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and Someone Else’s Shoes, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures.
194- Author: Moyes, Jojo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0143126474
- Language: English
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Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
$18.99 Add to cart“In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who’d s… [more below]
- Author: Armstrong, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 22 1986
- ISBN10: 0306802767
- Language: English
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What Was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?
$7.99 Add to cartLearn about Boston’s molasses disaster of 1919, when a storage tank burst and flooded the streets, in this latest addition to the New York Times Bestselling What Was? series.
An unusually warm winter- Series: What Was?
- Author: Anderson, Kirsten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0593520777
- Language: English
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In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow
$20.95 Add to cartThe killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder. These chil
- Author: Mayer, Robert H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1588384373
- Language: English
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Run: Book One
$24.99 Add to cartFirst you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award-winning team behind March–Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell–this is the first book in their groundbreaking graphic n
- Author: Lewis, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 141973069X
- Language: English
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The Orchardist
$18.99 Add to cart“There are echoes of John Steinbeck in this beautiful and haunting debut novel. . . . Coplin depicts the frontier landscape and the plainspoken characters who inhabit it with dazzling clarity.” — Ent
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Coplin, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0062188518
- Language: English
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King Hedley II
$16.95 Add to cart“Wilson’s melody here is the mournful sound of what might have been, a blues-tinged tale about a driven, almost demonic man. He’s a petty thief named King who will stop at nothing for a better life. .
- Author: Wilson, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 155936260X
- Language: English
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Rosa Parks
$15.99 Add to cartIn this book from the highly acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Rosa Parks, the “Mother of the Freedom Movement.”
Rosa Parks grew up in Alabama, where she lea- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #9
- Author: Kaiser, Lisbeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1786030187
- Language: English
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Glory Be
$8.99 Read moreA Mississippi town in 1964 gets riled when tempers flare at the segregated public pool.
As much as Gloriana June Hemphill, or Glory as everyone knows her, wants to turn twelve, there are times when Glo… [more below]
- Author: Scattergood, Augusta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 30 2014
- ISBN10: 0545331811
- Language: English
