Chronological Period/20th Century
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Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
$25.99 Add to cartAlfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspense and the most widely recognized film director of all time.
In a career that spanned six decades and p
- Author: McGilligan, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0060988274
- Language: English
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Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16
$22.99 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The definitive history of combat aviation and fighter aircraft, from World War I to present
INCLUDES 32 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND 12 MAPS
Lords of the Sky is the “dramatic, fast-pa
- Author: Hampton, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0062262092
- Language: English
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The Reagan Diaries
$24.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
“Reading these diaries, Americans will find it easier to understand how Reagan did what he did for so long . . . They paint a portrait of a president who was engaged by his
- Author: Reagan, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: May 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0061558338
- Language: English
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The Doll Shop Downstairs
$7.99 Read moreNine year old Anna and her sisters like helping out in their parents’ doll repair shop, because once their chores are done, the fun can begin. The girls are allowed to play carefully with the dolls un… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, Yona Zeldis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0142416916
- Language: English
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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
$19.00 Read moreLonglisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction
One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undes- Author: Cohen, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143109995
- Language: English
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Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists
$21.00 Read moreAnthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg’s Stealing Rembrandts is a spellbinding journey into the high-stakes world of art theft
Today, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the wo- Author: Amore, Anthony M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0230339905
- Language: English
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A Susan Sontag Reader
$30.99 Add to cartSusan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374535477
- Language: English
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The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908
$37.50 Read moreHenri Matisse is one of the masters of twentieth-century art and a household word to millions of people who find joy and meaning in his light-filled, colorful images–yet, despite all the books devote… [more below]
- Author: Spurling, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0375711333
- Language: English
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A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
$18.00 Read moreUnafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, u… [more below]
- Author: Glendon, Mary Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760466
- Language: English
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Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
$11.99 Add to cartPhotobiography of early twentieth-century photographer and schoolteacher Lewis Hine, using his own work as illustrations. Hines’s photographs of children at work were so devastating that they convince
- Author: Freedman, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 23 1998
- ISBN10: 395797268
- Language: English
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Big Machines: The Story of Virginia Lee Burton
$17.99 Read moreIn this loving tribute to Virginia Lee Burton, the New York Times best-selling creators Sherri Duskey Rinker and John Rocco pay homage to the storied life of one of the most beloved creators in childr… [more below]
- Author: Rinker, Sherri Duskey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0544715578
- Language: English
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Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific (Scholastic Focus): The Incredible Story of U.S. Submarines in WWII
$9.99 Read moreSibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson paints a vivid portrait of the deadly battles that raged in the Pacific during WWII and the remarkable courage of the US submarine sailors who fought them.
Dive! W… [more below]
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 054542559X
- Language: English
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Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
$18.99 Add to cartLouis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. He was a phenomenally gifted and imaginative artist, and an entertainer so irresistibly magnetic that he knocked… [more below]
- Author: Teachout, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 07 2010
- ISBN10: 547386370
- Language: English
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There’s No Business
$12.99 Add to cart- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 16
- Publish Date: May 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0876856229
- Language: English
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Revolution in Virginia, with a New Foreword
$22.95 Read moreUnsurpassed as a single-volume history, John E. Selby’s masterpiece analyzes the political, administrative, and military history of Virginia during the American Revolution. Stressing the contributions
- Author: Selby, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: May 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0879352337
- Language: English
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Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe: Knight’s Cross Holders 1943-1945
$42.95 Read moreThe second of two comprehensive directories of all the Luftwaffe’s single-seater fighter pilots who were awarded the Knight’s Cross during the Second World War.
The German fighter pilots of the Second … [more below]
- Author: Dixon, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1399030736
- Language: English
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The Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire: A Boston Tragedy
$23.99 Read moreOn November 28, 1942, fire roared through Boston’s famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub during what was supposed to be a high-spirited Saturday night. By midnight, more than five hundred people were dead, d
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Schorow, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1467152870
- Language: English
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Italo Balbo’s Flight to the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair
$24.99 Read moreTrace the monumental story of a transatlantic flight to the Century of Progress Exposition.
In an era when transatlantic travel was still dangerous, Italy caused a sensation by announcing its participa
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Fiore, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155349
- Language: English
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Coming to America Through the Angel Island Immigration Station: A History Seeking Adventure
$9.99 Read moreYOU are an Asian immigrant in the early 1900s. You dream of a life in American, but first you’ll have to pass through the Angel Island Immigration Station. How long will you be stuck there? And will y… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Seeking History
- Author: Collins, Ailynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669032728
- Language: English
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The Sum of One Man’s Pleasure
$17.95 Read more1963 – Finn Kenny fled Ottawa after being implicated in an RCMP purge of suspected Communist sympathisers and “homosexuals”, ending up on Vancouver Island working for the Spencerwood Estate alongside
- Author: Neil, Danial
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1774390787
- Language: English
