Chronological Period/20th Century
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Mighty Inside
$17.99 Read moreGolden Kite Award Finalist
Melvin Robinson wants a strong, smooth, He-Man vo
Washington State Book Award Winner
Junior Library Guild Gold Standard
Notable Social Studies Reading List
CCBC Choices- Author: Frazier, Sundee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1646140915
- Language: English
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The Flanders Road
$16.95 Read moreBy the winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, a riveting, stylistically audacious modernist epic about the French cavalry’s bloody face-off against German Panzer tanks during WWII.
On a sunny d- Author: Simon, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1681375958
- Language: English
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Tailships: The Hunt for Soviet Submarines in the Mediterranean, 1970-1973
$29.95 Read moreAn illustrated history of America’s hunt for Soviet submarines in the early 1970s.
Obsolete, except for the experimental anti-submarine warfare sensor they carried, the USS Hammerberg, DE-1015, the USS… [more below]
- Series: Europe@war
- Author: Rodgaard, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: December 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1914377095
- Language: English
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The Last Grand Duchess: A Novel of Olga Romanov, Imperial Russia, and Revolution
$16.99 Read more“Powerful and haunting . . . an intimate and unforgettable tale that transports the reader to the heart of Imperial Russia.” –Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Beautiful G… [more below]
- Author: Turnbull, Bryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0778311708
- Language: English
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Calder Grit: A Sweeping Historical Ranching Dynasty Novel
$26.00 Read moreA Romeo and Juliet romance with shades of Legends of the Fall powers the intense drama of this beautifully written and researched saga from a legendary New York Times bestselling author. Return to ear… [more below]
- Series: The Calder Brand
- Author: Dailey, Janet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1496727452
- Language: English
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Chéri and the End of Chéri
$26.95 Read moreChéri and its sequel, The End of Chéri, mark Colette’s finest achievements in their brilliant, subtle, and frank investigations of love and power. Set in the Parisian demimonde in the last days of
- Author: Colette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324006374
- Language: English
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Churchill & Son
$19.00 Read moreThe intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill’s enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph
“Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of life in the Churchill circle, much like Erik Larson did
- Author: Ireland, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1524744468
- Language: English
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Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s
$32.95 Read moreA BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year
The history the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase: the dramatic political debates of the 1980s that could h
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year- Author: Gewirtz, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0674241843
- Language: English
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Bloody Verrières: The I. Ss-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrières-Bourguebus Ridges: Volume II: The Defeat of Operation Spring and the Battles of Tilly
$37.95 Read more“Gullachsen’s attention to detail, analysis, and honest appraisal of controversial aspects of this combat are all to be commended.” — Globe at War
South of the Norman city of Caen, Verri?res Ridge was… [more below]
- Author: Gullachsen, Arthur W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1636240941
- Language: English
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Princess and the Peas
$8.99 Read moreA reimagining of the classic “The Princess and the Pea” set in an African American community in the South in the 1950s. Now in paperback!
In this adaptation of “The Princess and the Pea,” there are no- Author: Himes, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1623543789
- Language: English
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British Coastal Weapons Vs German Coastal Weapons: The Dover Strait 1940-44
$23.00 Read moreFor the first time ever, compare the British and German World War II big guns duelling with each other and harrying shipping in the Channel.
One of the longest-running battles of World War II took pla- Series: Duel #125
- Author: Short, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1472849779
- Language: English
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Bearing the Torch: The University of Tennessee, 1794-2010
$24.95 Add to cartBearing the Torch stands as a comprehensive history of the University of Tennessee, replete with anecdotes and vignettes of interest to anyone interested in UT, from the administrators and chancellors
- Author: Hutton, T. R. C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1621906876
- Language: English
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When Everybody Wore a Hat
$9.99 Read moreThis is the story of when I was a boy, almost 100 years ago, when fire engines were pulled by horses, boys did not play with girls, kids went to libraries for books, there was no TV, you could see a m
- Series: Rise and Shine
- Author: Steig, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0060097027
- Language: English
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Facing Black Star
$34.95 Read moreThe Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: the expectations, challenges, and results of a decade of research in a key photo agency’s print collection.
In 2005, Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryers- Series: Ric Books (Ryerson Image Centre Books)
- Author: Gervais, Thierry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047845
- Language: English
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Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
$37.99 Add to cartHistory on a grand scale–an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world’s most vibrant civilizations
A People’s Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did “more to help us understand t- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0312421958
- Language: English
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
$30.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Rule… [more below]
- Author: Taubman, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 871
- Publish Date: April 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393324842
- Language: English
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Countdown
$21.99 Read moreThe story of a formative year in 12-year-old Franny Chapman’s life, and the life of a nation facing the threat of nuclear war.
Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that’s hard to get when her best… [more below]
- Series: Sixties Trilogy
- Author: Wiles, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0545106052
- Language: English
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Trotsky: A Biography
$30.00 Read moreRobert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.
Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing an- Author: Service, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: October 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0674062256
- Language: English
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My Dog Skip
$16.00 Read moreThis classic story of a boy, a dog, and small-town America is “a rich experience all around…. Skip turns out to be a dog worth writing about…. I’d take him home in a shot” (The New York Times Book… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 30 1996
- ISBN10: 0679767223
- Language: English
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Sitting Ducks at Guadalcanal: The U.S. Navy’s Disaster at the Battle of Savo Island in World War II
$39.95 Add to cartSitting Ducks at Guadalcanal is a minute-by-minute retelling of the First Battle of Savo Island. This naval history, features a colorful narrative that covers the big picture as well as stories of ind
- Author: de Graw, Lawrence A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 524
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 811773833
- Language: English
