Chronological Period/20th Century
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Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician
$18.99 Read more“A detail-rich picture book.” —Kirkus Reviews
From award-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome and acclaimed illustrator Ra l Col n comes the sens
“Straightforward and inviting.” —School Library Journal- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1534404759
- Language: English
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Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan
$33.82 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times
“Singular, stylish and slightly intoxicating in its scope.”
—Rolling StoneAcclaimed media critic J. Hoberman’s masterful and majestic exploration of t
- Author: Hoberman, J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1595580069
- Language: English
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Howard Thurman’s Great Hope
$10.95 Read moreBorn in segregated Daytona, Florida, in 1899, Howard Thurman grew up dreaming of a better life–a life where his mother and grandmother would not have to cook and clean for other people; a life where
- Author: Issa, Kai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1600608906
- Language: English
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Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity: A Long View of History
$12.00 Add to cartWhere did humanity come from?
How did we arrive where we are today?
Why is that even important?Because without understanding how human society, since our remotest ancestors, has been created through soc… [more below]
- Author: Engels, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: January 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1604881208
- Language: English
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The President Has Been Shot!: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
$12.99 Add to cartThis YALSA-ALA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award Finalist is a breathtaking and dramatic account of JFK’s assassination by NY Times bestselling author of CHASING LINCOLN’S KILLER.
In his award… [more below]
- Author: Swanson, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0545872197
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Motor Row
$23.99 Add to cartChicago’s Motor Row earned a spot in the National Register of Historic Places by pioneering a new way to market an invention that was remaking America–the automobile.
From approximately 1905 to 1936, … [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Hogan, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 03 2022
- ISBN10: 146710762X
- Language: English
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Irish Myths and Legends: Gods and Fighting Men
$24.99 Add to cartLady Augusta Gregory’s Irish Myths and Legends, or Gods and Fighting Men as it was first titled in 1904, is an essential collection of Irish myths, legends and folk tales gathered by Gregory from Iris… [more below]
- Author: Gregory, Augusta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1848408129
- Language: English
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Peter Pan
$12.99 Read moreThis collectible edition of Peter Pan, packaged in a beautiful, vibrant clothbound hardcover, is unabridged and includes 12 color and black-and-white illustrations by F.D. Bedford.
Originally told as
- Series: Chartwell Classics
- Author: Barrie, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0785841598
- Language: English
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Twentieth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe last century has been a tumultuous one for the culture and politics of Britain. Kenneth Morgan’s Twentieth-Century Britain is a crisp analysis of the forces of consensus and conflict that have exi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Morgan, Kenneth O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 11 2005
- ISBN10: 019285397X
- Language: English
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
$12.00 Read moreSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING THE CROWN‘S EMMA CORRIN AND UNBROKEN‘S JACK O’CONNELL
Introduction by Kathryn Harrison Inspired by the long-standing affair between D. H. Lawrence’s German- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375758003
- Language: English
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Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement
$22.00 Add to cartAn unprecedented portrait of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, told through voices that resonate with passion and strength–including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph … [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 07 2003
- ISBN10: 037575881X
- Language: English
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
$30.00 Read moreForty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0393254593
- Language: English
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Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal
$18.99 Read moreIn the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal–not just its practical policies but the f
- Author: Phillips-Fein, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 393337669
- Language: English
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The Sea-Wolf
$9.00 Read moreHailed by critics as one of the greatest sea stories ever written, this rousing adventure offers a fascinating combination of gritty realism and sublime lyricism in its portrayal of an elemental confl
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 23 1999
- ISBN10: 0486411087
- Language: English
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Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
$18.95 Read moreIn the first comprehensive history of the links between autism and Nazism, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer uncovers how a diagnosis common today emerged from the atrocities of the Third Reich. A
- Author: Sheffer, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0393357791
- Language: English
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
$18.99 Read moreMoose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she’s denied admittance t… [more below]
- Series: Tales from Alcatraz #1
- Author: Choldenko, Gennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0399238611
- Language: English
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Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami
$18.00 Add to cartThe wild, true story of the Mutiny, the hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami’s cocaine cowboys heyday–and an inspiration for the blockbuster film, Scarface…
In the seventies, coke hi- Author: Farzad, Roben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0399583254
- Language: English
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Who Is Bob Dylan?
$6.99 Read moreA Nobel Prize-winning singer-songwriter, musician, and artist, Bob Dylan is an American icon. In the past five decades, Dylan’s work has influenced everyone from John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Da… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0448464616
- Language: English
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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
$18.00 Read moreFirst published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”–events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order t
- Author: Boorstin, Daniel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679741801
- Language: English
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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
$19.00 Read more#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s
In this “overpowering and beautiful nov- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulks, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 02 1997
- ISBN10: 0679776818
- Language: English
