Chronological Period/20th Century
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Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt’s Roaring ’20s
$17.95 Read moreOne of the world’s most multicultural cities, twentieth-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented. During the 1920s and ’30s, a vibrant music, theater, film, and cabaret scene flourish
- Author: Cormack, Raphael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021934
- Language: English
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Murder in the Park
$28.99 Read moreIntroducing spirited female sleuth Elizabeth Fairchild in the first of the brilliant new Oak Park village mystery series, set in 1920s Illinois.
June, 1925. Having been widowed in the Great War, Eli- Series: Oak Park Village Mystery #1
- Author: Dams, Jeanne M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0727850458
- Language: English
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D?kirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk
$30.00 Read more‘Kershaw’s book is a welcome rebalancing; a thoughtful, well-researched and well-written contribution to a narrative that has long been too one-sided and too mired in national mythology.’ – The Times
- Author: Kershaw, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1472854373
- Language: English
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Wicked Cleveland
$21.99 Read moreAward-winning true crime author Jane Turzillo brings together the strippers, gangsters, robbers, shady politicians, and more from Cleveland’s rough and rowdy past.
From world-class museums and popular
- Series: Wicked
- Author: Turzillo, Jane Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 27 2022
- ISBN10: 146715024X
- Language: English
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Us Destroyers Vs German U-Boats: The Atlantic 1941-45
$23.00 Read moreAn absorbing study of the duels fought between the US Navy’s escort warships and Hitler’s U-boats between December 1941 and May 1945.
Although the Battle of the Atlantic lasted several years, its most- Series: Duel #127
- Author: Lardas, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1472854101
- Language: English
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The Name of the World
$16.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Jesus’ Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern universit
- Author: Johnson, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060929650
- Language: English
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Audacity
$13.99 Read moreA 2015 National Jewish Book Award finalist
The inspiring story of Clara Lemlich, whose fight for equal rights led to the largest strike by women in American history A gorgeously told novel in verse w- Author: Crowder, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0147512492
- Language: English
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Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
$26.95 Add to cartIn Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women–northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina–share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonv… [more below]
- Author: Holsaert, Faith S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0252078888
- Language: English
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James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study
$15.95 Read more- Author: Gilbert, Stuart
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 12 1955
- ISBN10: 0394700139
- Language: English
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Hattie Big Sky
$9.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER
A classic YA novel about a teenage girl searching for a sense of home and family that celebrates the true spirit of independence on the American- Series: Hattie
- Author: Larson, Kirby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0440239419
- Language: English
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Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
$21.99 Add to cartFrom world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a poignant memoir about her spiritual epiphany and an appeal for why everyone can find a reas… [more below]
- Author: Goodall, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0446676136
- Language: English
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Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History
$24.95 Read moreKorea has endured a “fractured, shattered twentieth century,” and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings’s leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the… [more below]
- Author: Cumings, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327027
- Language: English
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The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World
$18.00 Add to cartA brilliant and visionary argument for America’s role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world–and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward.
Recent years h- Author: Kagan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0525563571
- Language: English
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Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
$32.00 Add to cart“A vast choral pageant that recounts the momentous work of the civil rights struggle.”–The New York Times Book Review
A monumental volume drawing upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights- Author: Hampton, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: February 01 1991
- ISBN10: 553352326
- Language: English
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Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
$19.99 Add to cartA 2005 Sibert Honor Book
The story of Sequoyah is the tale of an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea–to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians and turn his people into a nation of rea- Author: Rumford, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0618369473
- Language: English
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
$33.50 Read moreGreil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: th… [more below]
- Author: Marcus, Greil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0674034805
- Language: English
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A Lesson for Martin Luther King Jr.: Ready-To-Read Level 2
$5.99 Read moreLearn all about the childhood of America’s most famous civil rights activist in this nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read
Young Martin Luther King Jr. is having some problems with his best friend, Bobby.- Series: Ready-To-Read Childhood of Famous Americans
- Author: Pate, Rodney S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0689853971
- Language: English
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Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma
$36.95 Read morePaul Grondahl is a reporter at the Albany Times Union and the author of four books, including the acclaimed political biography, I Rose like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt. Hi… [more below]
- Author: Grondahl, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 626
- Publish Date: September 07 2007
- ISBN10: 0791472949
- Language: English
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The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio
$26.78 Add to cartThis lively blast from the past peels back the many layers of the Top 40 phenomenon: the DJs, fans, singles, jingles, dedications, contests, requests and more. The book features interviews with such r… [more below]
- Author: Fong-Torres, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: December 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0879306645
- Language: English
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Padre Pio and America
$24.95 Add to cartFirst titled, The Holy Man on the Mountain, this book tells the fascinating life story of Padre Pio, with emphasis on his life as a seminarian, young priest and his early decades at San Giovanni Roton… [more below]
- Author: Rega, Frank M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0895558203
- Language: English
