Chronological Period/20th Century
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Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity
$18.95 Read moreThe personal and professional life of Bruno Kreisky (1911-1990), Austria’s long-serving Socialist chancellor from August 1970 to May 1983, has been the focus of many books and articles. However, his a
- Author: Aschheim, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1608012425
- Language: English
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Momma’s Lost Piano: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartWhen she is seventeen, Emily Merritt’s beloved father gives her the piano she has always wanted. A few days later, having lost his job, he sells Emily’s piano and moves the family out of its two-story… [more below]
- Author: Madden, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1621907821
- Language: English
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British Aircraft Carriers 1945-2010
$20.00 Read moreThe history of the Royal Navy flagships that led the fleet through the Cold War, ensured victory in the Falklands War, and saw action in Iraq and the Balkans.
In 1945, at the end of World War II, the- Series: New Vanguard #317
- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1472856872
- Language: English
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Vietnam Combat: Firefights and Writing History
$37.95 Read moreFinalist, 2023 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards
Finalist, War & Military, 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Winner, Military Nonfiction, 2023 NYC Big Book Awards
2nd Pla… [more below]- Author: Bartlett, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1636242421
- Language: English
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Fables for Our Time
$15.99 Add to cart“These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us humans how we really are, are completely uproarious.” –The Saturday Review of Literature
James Thurber has been called “one of our grea
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0060909994
- Language: English
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The Duke Is Mine
$9.99 Read moreThe Duke Is Mine is a stunning Princess and the Pea story with a delightfully romantic Regency spin–the third book in the fairytale-based historical romance series from New York Times bestselling aut
- Series: Fairy Tales #3
- Author: James, Eloisa
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0062021281
- Language: English
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Vip: Lewis Latimer: Engineering Wizard
$7.99 Read moreGet ready to light up the world with Lewis Latimer in this exciting middle grade nonfiction biography. Perfect for fans of the Who Was and Little Leaders series, the books in the VIP series tell the t
- Series: VIP
- Author: Patrick, Denise Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0062889664
- Language: English
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Eleanor
$8.99 Add to cartThough she came from a wealthy and privileged family, Eleanor Roosevelt grew up in a cheerless household that left her lonely and shy. Years passed before Eleanor began to discover in herself the qual… [more below]
- Series: Picture Puffin Books
- Author: Cooney, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140555838
- Language: English
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Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen
$18.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling biographer-the first book-length portrait of music legend Tammy Wynette.
Known for his acclaimed biographies of Neil Young, Russ Meyer, and Andy Milligan, Jimmy M- Author: McDonough, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0143118889
- Language: English
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The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
$8.99 Read moreA powerful story about race and an unlikely friendship from award-winning author of The Lions of Little Rock.
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults The last thing Harry “Dit” Sims expects when Emma Walker- Author: Levine, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0142416487
- Language: English
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Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician
$15.00 Read moreFor fans of Bradley Cooper’s film Maestro, an appreciation that gives Bernstein his due as composer as well as conductor
Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter of twentieth-century American musical- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Shawn, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0300219857
- Language: English
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Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall: From America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
$17.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Who was Bobby Fischer? In this “nuanced perspective of the chess genius” (Los Angeles Times), an acclaimed biographer chronicles his meteoric rise and confounding fall, wit… [more below]
- Author: Brady, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0307463915
- Language: English
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
$26.00 Add to cartA National Bestseller
From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defi- Author: Toobin, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0345803159
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
$20.00 Read moreThis incisive interpretation of American foreign policy ranks as a classic in American thought. First published in 1959, the book offered an analysis of the wellsprings of American foreign policy that… [more below]
- Author: Williams, William Appleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334740
- Language: English
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Napoleon Symphony
$14.95 Read moreA grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon’s life into a pattern borrowed–in liberty, equality, and fraternity–from Beethoven’s Third “Eroic
- Author: Burgess, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0393350150
- Language: English
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Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
$19.95 Read moreA Financial Times Best Book of the Year
“The achievement of a lifetime.”
Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Award
Winner of the US-Russia Relations Book Prize
–Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin “Naim- Author: Naimark, Norman M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292154
- Language: English
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Sweet Love, Survive
$7.99 Read moreThe award-winning, bestselling author of Brazen and Pure Sin brings her brand of steamy sensuality to this shattering tale of forbidden love.
Kitty Radachek played to perfection her role as the demure
- Series: Russian/Kuzan Family #3
- Author: Johnson, Susan
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0553563297
- Language: English
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
$17.00 Read moreI tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct t… [more below]
- Author: Kalish, Mildred Armstrong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0553384244
- Language: English
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The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege
$13.95 Read moreAn honest look at racism in the United States, and the liberal platitudes that attempt to conceal it.
This book offers an honest and rigorous exploration of what Jensen refers to as the depraved nature
- Author: Jensen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0872864499
- Language: English
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Apocalypse Culture
$14.95 Read moreApocalypse Culture is compulsory reading for all those concerned with the crisis of our times. An extraordinary collection unlike anything I have ever encountered. These are the terminal documents of
- Author: Parfrey, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0922915059
- Language: English
