Chronological Period/20th Century
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The Last Stand of Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour
$29.95 Add to cartAdapted from the naval history classic and New York Times bestseller, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors pieces together the action of the Battle off Samar, bringing to life a riveting story of her… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, Steven Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1682473384
- Language: English
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920-26 (Loa #353)
$35.00 Read moreLibrary of America’s authoritative Fitzgerald edition continues with his greatest masterpiece and best story collection of stories in newly edited texts
This long-awaited second volume of Library of A- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 756
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537148
- Language: English
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One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art
$26.95 Read moreA selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader’s breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by auth
- Author: Cirino, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1567927130
- Language: English
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Audrey Under the Big Top: A Hartford Circus Fire Survival Story
$27.99 Read moreTwelve-year-old Audrey wants nothing more than to be a dance performer and aerialist, but that feels far from reality in 1944 Hartford, Connecticut. So when she learns the Ringling Brothers and Barnum… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Gunderson, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1663990557
- Language: English
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La VÃspera de Orgullo
$17.99 Read moreA glittering celebration of queer families puts Pride gently in perspective–honoring those in the LBGTQ+ community who fought against injustice and inequality.
Es la vÃspera de Orgullo y muchas fami- Author: McClintick, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 153622362X
- Language: Spanish
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The Supersonic Bone: A Development and Operational History of the B-1 Bomber
$50.00 Read moreWhen the B-52 Stratofortress entered operational service with the US Air Force in 1955, work was already underway on defining its successor. The B-70 Valkyrie, a Mach 3 jet bomber, was one option. Alt… [more below]
- Author: Katz, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1399014714
- Language: English
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
$28.00 Read moreNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner
New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016
A Chicag- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1632864126
- Language: English
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What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern
$75.00 Read moreOn the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land‘s creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence
When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Lan- Author: Rasula, Jed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 069122577X
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Portland, Oregon
$23.99 Read moreA full menu of unforgettable events and historical milestones.
Delve into the Rose City’s colorful and sometimes tumultuous past through the memories, meals and recipes that put these bygone restaurant
- Series: Lost
- Author: Kennedy, Theresa Griffin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1467143308
- Language: English
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
$23.00 Add to cart“The authoritative masterpiece” (L. A. Times) on the Apollo space program and NASA’s journey to the moon
This acclaimed portrait of heroism and ingenuity captures a watershed moment in human history.- Author: Chaikin, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 014311235X
- Language: English
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Baseball Card Adventures 3-Book Box Set: Honus & Me, Jackie & Me, Babe & Me
$20.97 Read moreThree fan favorites from the sensational Baseball Card Adventures series, which has sold more than 2 million books, are now together in one box set!
Twelve-year-old Joe “Stosh” Stoshack has an amazing
- Series: Baseball Card Adventures
- Author: Gutman, Dan
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0062979582
- Language: English
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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
$21.00 Add to cartA searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath–from the prizewinning economist and author of Shutdown, Crashed and The Wages of Destruction
Winner of the L- Author: Tooze, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127977
- Language: English
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The Babe & I
$7.99 Read moreIt’s 1932 and hard times are everywhere. But life isn’t all bad. America still loves baseball, and Babe Ruth is the star of the game. And two boys are about to discover that with some creativity, hard… [more below]
- Author: Adler, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0152050264
- Language: English
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Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago
$18.00 Read more“Chicago is a tale of two cities,” headlines declare. This narrative has been gaining steam alongside reports of growing economic divisions and diverging outlooks on the future of the city. Yet to kee… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Kotlowitz, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 16 2019
- ISBN10: 022661901X
- Language: English
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The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge
$20.00 Read morePaul Preston is the world’s foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms. Tracking the emergence of Francisc… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329879
- Language: English
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
$16.99 Read moreWhen the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed on page one, “Pluto Not a Planet? Only in New York…. [more below]
- Author: Degrasse Tyson, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0393350363
- Language: English
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution
$24.00 Read moreThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution–a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigra… [more below]
- Author: Zia, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0345522338
- Language: English
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The Last Palace: Europe’s Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
$22.00 Read moreA sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses–and the lives of its occupants
When Norman Eisen m- Author: Eisen, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0451495799
- Language: English
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A Room with a View
$8.00 Read moreIn common with much of his other writing, this work by the eminent English novelist and essayist E. M. Forster (1879-1970) displays an unusually perceptive view of British society in the early 20th ce… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 12 1995
- ISBN10: 0486284670
- Language: English
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China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China
$35.00 Read moreChina’s mid-twentieth-century wars pose extraordinary interpretive challenges. The issue is not just that the Chinese fought for such a long time–from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 unti
- Author: Van de Ven, Hans
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0674983505
- Language: English
