Chronological Period/20th Century
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When She Dreams
$22.99 Read moreMaggie Lodge, assistant to the advice columnist known only as Dear Aunt Cornelia to her readers, hires private eye Sam Sage to help track down the person who is blackmailing her employer. In spite of
- Author: Quick, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 31 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885789080
- Language: English
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Messerschmitt Me 309: Development & Politics
$70.00 Read moreChosen in 1941 to replace the Bf 109 as the Luftwaffe’s standard front-line fighter, Messerschmitt’s innovative Me 309 embodied a wealth of hard-won experience from the Battle of Britain. Its sturdy t… [more below]
- Series: Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe
- Author: Sharp, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1911658964
- Language: English
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Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
$23.95 Read moreThe inspiration for the PBS documentary premiering March 2023
The story of the revolutionary Black women welfare organizers of Las Vegas who spearheaded an evergreen, radical revisioning of American e- Author: Orleck, Annelise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0807007978
- Language: English
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British Frigates and Escort Destroyers 1939-45
$20.00 Read moreA history of the small, mass-produced warships that defended the Atlantic convoys from U-boats and secured Britain’s lifeline to the United States.
As the Battle of the Atlantic grew fiercer, Britain- Series: New Vanguard #319
- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1472858115
- Language: English
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The Ditchdigger’s Daughters: A Black Family’s Astonishing Success Story
$16.95 Read moreAs resonant now as it ever was, this inspiring portrait by a loving daughter of a father whose pervasive common sense, folk wisdom, and untutored but right-on insights gave his children their road map… [more below]
- Author: Thornton, Yvonne S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1496739191
- Language: English
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Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
$21.95 Read moreForeword by Janet Yellen
Weijian Shan’s Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Am
- Author: Shan, Weijian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1394172583
- Language: English
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Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer
$28.00 Read moreZelda Popkin’s adventurous life could have made her the protagonist of one of her own novels. In his brilliant telling of the story of her life, her historian grandson, Jeremy D. Popkin, has made a si
- Author: Popkin, Jeremy D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 153816843X
- Language: English
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Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
$19.00 Read moreA Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2012
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012
In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illumina- Author: Dyson, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1400075998
- Language: English
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Warsaw Requiem
$15.99 Read moreOpening in 1936, the Zion Covenant series tells the courageous and compelling stories of those who risk everything to stand against the growing tide of Nazi terrorism that is sweeping through central … [more below]
- Series: Zion Covenant #6
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 141430112X
- Language: English
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Aces at Kursk: The Battle for Aerial Supremacy on the Eastern Front, 1943
$42.95 Read moreThe Battle of Kursk in July 1943 is known for being the largest tank battle in history. A Russian victory, it marked the decisive end of the German offensive capability on the Eastern Front and set th… [more below]
- Author: Lawrence, Christopher A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1399081438
- Language: English
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Jack’s Path of Courage: The Life of John F. Kennedy
$8.99 Read moreA moving portrait of a courageous figure by the author of Abe’s Honest Words and Martin’s Big Words.
John F. Kennedy was a popular, charismatic president, beloved by many. But he didn’t always believ- Series: Big Words #5
- Author: Rappaport, Doreen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1484749618
- Language: English
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Suffragette: The Battle for Equality
$25.00 Add to cartA New York Times best-selling illustrator turns his talents to a lavish history of the women’s suffrage movement in the U.K. and the U.S. just in time for the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth A… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1536208418
- Language: English
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Chanel: Her Life
$65.00 Read moreAs Justine Picardie shows in this elegant book, the figure who introduced simplicity into women’s wardrobes was far from simple … the Chanel uncovered by Picardie is a storyteller. She spun her own
- Author: Picardie, Justine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 3958296300
- Language: English
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The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts
$18.99 Read moreAn incisive biography of the Supreme Court’s enigmatic Chief Justice, taking us inside the momentous legal decisions of his tenure so far.
John Roberts was named to the Supreme Court in 2005 claiming h… [more below]- Author: Biskupic, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1541675436
- Language: English
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Escape from . . . the Titanic
$5.99 Read more“Many details within the informative, exciting narrative are based in history, and sidebars filling in the facts will bolster the story’s believability for young readers…A good beginning for the Esc… [more below]
- Series: Escape from . . .
- Author: Carson, Mary Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1499811063
- Language: English
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King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles Edited by Duff Hart-Davis
$22.99 Read more‘Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless’ Spectator
‘Fascinating … as much a contribution to royal legend as to the history of the war’ Daily Telegraph As Assistant Private Secretary to- Author: Lascelles, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1474618200
- Language: English
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City of Gold
$7.99 Add to cartRich in adventure, history, and humor, an odyssey set in the twilight of the Wild West spun by Will Hobbs
Weeks after arriving in Colorado to start a new farm, the Hollowell family is looking at disast
- Author: Hobbs, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0061708836
- Language: English
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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
