Chronological Period/20th Century
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Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition
$34.95 Add to cartAlthough much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been–until now–a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire … [more below]
- Author: Binder, John J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1633882853
- Language: English
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Operation Barbarossa: The History of a Cataclysm
$40.99 Add to cartAuthor of an acclaimed history of the Battle of the Atlantic during World War Two (OUP 2016), Jonathan Dimbleby now offers a compelling account of the largest military operation not only of World War … [more below]
- Author: Dimbleby, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0197547214
- Language: English
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Johnny Cash: The Life
$22.99 Add to cartThe national bestseller celebrated as “the ultimate Johnny Cash biography . . . Rock writer great Robert Hilburn goes deep.” — Rolling Stone
In this, the definitive biography of an American legend,- Author: Hilburn, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0316194743
- Language: English
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The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story
$18.99 Add to cartFrom 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of a serial killer. The story has been the subject of short stories, novels, and the television series American Horror Story. But the full story of… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Miriam C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0912777710
- Language: English
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Rocket to the Moon!
$15.99 Read moreAward-winning author/illustrator Don Brown explores the history of rocket building in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World graphic novel series.
“That’s one small step for man, on- Series: Big Ideas That Changed the World
- Author: Brown, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1419734040
- Language: English
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Atlanta Record Stores: An Oral History
$23.99 Add to cartAtlanta Record Stores is an oral history of the city’s rock music scene, as witnessed through the lens of Criminal Records, Fantasyland, Wax ‘N’ Facts, and many more. This is a rock-centric take on a … [more below]
- Author: Radford, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1467142972
- Language: English
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I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling, definitive biography of legendary artist Leonard Cohen, now with new afterword by the author
“There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”
— Leonard
- Author: Simmons, Sylvie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0063114909
- Language: English
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Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front
$19.95 Read moreWinner of a Catholic Media Association Book Award
“A great, but deeply unsettling, revelation…This book is more than an account of Boston in wartime. It is a warning.”–Boston Globe “The rare book b- Author: Gallagher, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293878
- Language: English
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Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS
$24.95 Read more“Farber [is] a lucid and courageous witness to the power-play behind the first ‘scamdemic, ‘ . . . [Her] work is journalism at its best–solid, lucid, and humane, attacking wrongs that few dare touch,
- Author: Farber, Celia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1645022072
- Language: English
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Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
$31.99 Add to cartBeginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States V X
- Author: Patterson, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: November 20 1997
- ISBN10: 0195117972
- Language: English
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Herman Miller: A Way of Living
$125.00 Read more‘There have been many books about Herman Miller, its ethos, designers, and furniture, but none as comprehensive as this.’ – Interior Design
The acclaimed chronicle of the rich history of this innovativ
- Author: Auscherman, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 614
- Publish Date: April 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1838666915
- Language: English
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The Enchanted April
$11.95 Read more‘To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine. Small medieval castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let For the month of April, above a bay on the Italian Riviera.’
Four very different wome- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Von Arnim, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198859090
- Language: English
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Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington
$5.99 Add to cartAll Aboard Reading!
On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people came to the nation’s capital. They came by plane, by bus, by car–even on roller-skates–to speak out against segregation and to demand
- Series: Penguin Young Readers, Level 3
- Author: Ruffin, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0448424215
- Language: English
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The National Parks: America’s Best Idea
$65.00 Add to cartThe companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration … [more below]- Author: Duncan, Dayton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0307268969
- Language: English
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Shattered Midnight-The Mirror, Book 2
$18.99 Read moreCan dreams come true when you’re living with a family curse?
Zora Broussard has arrived in New Orleans with not much more than a bag of clothes, a beautiful voice, and a pair of enchanted red shoes. Ru… [more below]- Series: Mirror #2
- Author: Clayton, Dhonielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1368046428
- Language: English
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Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics: 1776-1963
$19.99 Add to cartWhat they didn’t teach you in school about Benjamin Franklin, The Freeemasons, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, the Spanish American War, Prohibition, and more.
In this updated paperback edition, there i- Author: Jeffries, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1510769102
- Language: English
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Broken Icarus: The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of Fascism
$29.95 Read more2022 History Book Festival Official Selection.
The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national saviors
- Author: Hanna, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 163388676X
- Language: English
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Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World’s Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
$28.99 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker and the Economist
In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of t- Author: Bullough, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 125028192X
- Language: English
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The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
$28.00 Read more“This is rich, florid, funny history, with undertones of human grief . . . Knight is shrewd and perceptive . . . [he] pushes his material into neurobiology, into the nature of placebos and expectation… [more below]
- Author: Knight, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1984879596
- Language: English
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The Tuscan Contessa: A Heartbreaking New Novel Set in Wartime Tuscany
$15.95 Read moreONE WAR. TWO WOMEN. WILL THEY BE ABLE TO SAVE THE ONES THEY LOVE?
A sweeping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author In 1943, Contessa Sofia de’ Corsi’s peaceful Tuscan villa among the oliv- Author: Jefferies, Dinah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0241987318
- Language: English
