Chronological Period/20th Century
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A Year Down Yonder
$18.99 Read moreWinner of the Newbery Medal
“Peck charms readers once again with this entertaining sequel to A Long Way from Chicago“–School Library Journal (starred review) It was within the pages of Richard Peck‘s- Author: Peck, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0803725183
- Language: English
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Don’t Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life (1860-1975)
$32.00 Read moreWhen the Apache wars ended in the late nineteenth century, a harsh and harrowing time began for the Western Apache people. Living under the authority of nervous Indian agents, pitiless government-sch… [more below]
- Author: Watt, Eva Tulene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0816523916
- Language: English
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Overground Railroad
$18.99 Read moreA window into a child’s experience of the Great Migration from the award-winning creators of Before She Was Harriet and Finding Langston.
Climbing aboard the New York bound Silver Meteor train, Ruth E- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0823438732
- Language: English
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A Plague on Both Your Houses: A Novel in the Shadow of the Russian Mafia
$16.99 Read moreA brand-new novel from New York Times bestselling author Robert Littell, A Plague on Both Your Houses is a thrilling tale of love and war.
On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minu
- Author: Littell, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9798212638357
- Language: English
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A6m2/3 Zero-Sen: New Guinea and the Solomons 1942
$23.00 Read moreThis book details the exploits of the highly skilled Naval Aviators charged with achieving air supremacy over New Guinea in their A6M2/3 Zero-sens.
The combat record of the Zero-sen in New Guinea has- Series: Dogfight #10
- Author: Claringbould, Michael John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857496
- Language: English
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Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute: An Untold History of Spacemen & Spies
$23.99 Read moreFor six decades western North Carolinians have asked the question: “What are those big satellite dishes doing behind that chain-linked fence?” In the early years of the site near Rosman, NASA gave pub… [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Gralley, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152188
- Language: English
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The North Shore Line
$23.99 Read moreAs late as 1963, it was possible to board high-speed electric trains on Chicago’s famous Loop “L” that ran 90 miles north to Milwaukee. This was the Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad, commonly … [more below]
- Series: Images of Rail
- Author: Sadowski, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1467108960
- Language: English
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The Day the Germans Came
$16.99 Add to cartInspired by the incredible true story of how the people of Denmark saved their Jewish neighbours during World War II
Helsing r, Denmark, 1943
In the midst of the German occupation during World War II,
- Author: Gyland, Ella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0008591741
- Language: English
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Can You Survive the 1918 Flu Pandemic?: An Interactive History Adventure
$34.65 Read moreThe year is 1918. World War I is nearing its end. But the world is just beginning to suffer from a deadly pandemic. Within months, the deadly flu virus has spread around the world, infecting and killi… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Disasters in History
- Author: Manning, Matthew K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1666390836
- Language: English
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Anne of the Island
$7.99 Add to cartAnne Shirley is off to college in this artfully packaged edition of the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series.
Anne is finally off to Redmond College! While she’s sad to be leaving Marilla and- Series: Anne of Green Gables Novel
- Author: Montgomery, L. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1442490047
- Language: English
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Blood and Circuses
$15.95 Add to cartFrom the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Blood and Circuses, the next historical mystery featuring an unstoppable, elegant amateur sleuth. Can Miss Fisher uncover the truth withou
- Series: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries #6
- Author: Greenwood, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1464207623
- Language: English
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The Silent Don: The Criminal Underworld of Santo Trafficante Jr.
$22.95 Read moreThe Silent Don exposes the life and ruthless times of one of America’s most powerful and feared mob bosses. With a criminal empire that stretched from the Gulf Coast throughout the Caribbean, Traffica… [more below]
- Author: Deitch, Scott M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 16 2009
- ISBN10: 1569803552
- Language: English
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Man of Letters
$29.95 Read moreA Man of Letters traces the life, career, and commentaries on controversial issues of Thomas Sowell over a period of more than four decades through his letters to and from family, friends, and public … [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 19 2007
- ISBN10: 1594031967
- Language: English
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Across a Broken Shore
$14.99 Read moreThe last thing eighteen-year-old Wilhelmina “Willa” MacCarthy wants is to be a nun. It’s 1936, and as the only daughter amongst four sons, her Irish-Catholic family is counting on her to take her vows… [more below]
- Author: Trueblood, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1635830427
- Language: English
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The Great Lie: Classic and Recent Appraisals of Ideology and Totalitarianism
$40.00 Read moreThe Most Insightful and Profound Reflections on Tyranny.
Totalitarianism was the dominant phenomenon of the twentieth century. Deeply troubling questions endure regarding the nature of such tyrannical- Series: Religion and Contemporary Culture
- Author: Taylor, F. Flagg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 698
- Publish Date: August 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1935191365
- Language: English
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
$21.00 Read moreOne of New York Magazine’s best books on Silicon Valley
The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O’Mara became o- Author: O’Mara, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0399562206
- Language: English
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War Lord
$28.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“I gulped it right down. Excellent, as always. . . . Cornwell brings battles to life like no one else.” -George R.R. Martin, Author of Game of Thrones
The final installment in
- Series: Saxon Tales #13
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0062563297
- Language: English
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Books by Horseback: A Librarian’s Brave Journey to Deliver Books to Children
$17.99 Read moreWinner of the 2021 Northern Lights Book Awards–Historical Category
Books By Horseback is a breathtaking adventure of a heroic Pack Horse Librarian who braves the harsh terrain of rural Kentucky to br- Author: Berne, Emma Carlson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 149981173X
- Language: English
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The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
$30.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling au… [more below]
- Author: Letts, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0593414063
- Language: English
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The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
$20.00 Read moreFrom bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII
In May 1945, after German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, millions of- Author: Nasaw, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0143110993
- Language: English
