Chronological Period/20th Century
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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
$19.99 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 Add to cartMoose 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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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 Add to cart#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
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In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
$20.00 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The definitive insider’s account of American policy making in Vietnam.
“Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his cou- Author: McNamara, Robert S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0679767495
- Language: English
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Running with Pheidippides: Stylianos Kyriakides, the Miracle Marathoner
$29.95 Add to cartIt is 1946. World War II is over. As the rest of Europe struggles to rebuild itself, Greece–which had bitterly resisted Nazi occupation–is ripped apart by civil war. Thousands are dead or dying of s
- Series: Sports and Entertainment (Hardcover)
- Author: Tsiotos, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0815607032
- Language: English
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Milestones: Memoirs: 1927 – 1977
$14.95 Read moreRich in humor and culture, as well as passion and love for the cause of God and of man, Milestones is the early autobiography of Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger. It tells the fascinating and inspi… [more below]
- Author: Ratzinger, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: September 30 1988
- ISBN10: 0898707021
- Language: English
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Two Navies Divided: The British and United States Navies in the Second World War
$60.00 Read moreThe title is derived from George Bernard Shaw’s comment that “England and America are two countries divided by a common language.” It is not intended to imply that the two navies were seriously at odd… [more below]
- Author: Lavery, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682474720
- Language: English
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Day of the Assassins
$19.99 Read moreA forensic account of political assassinations from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
- Author: Burleigh, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 152903017X
- Language: English
