Chronological Period/20th Century
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Buffalo Art Deco
$23.99 Read moreSeveral movements helped to define the era known as the Roaring Twenties. Prohibition brought about the speakeasy, moonshine, the flapper, and the arrival of the jazz age, while the elegance and glamo… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Charles, Trisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1467107433
- Language: English
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Can You Survive the 1925 Tri-State Tornado?: An Interactive History Adventure
$34.65 Read moreOn March 18, 1925, the deadliest tornado in history tore a path of destruction more than 200 miles long across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. The giant tornado demolished several towns and killed hu… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Disasters in History
- Author: Manning, Matthew K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1666390798
- Language: English
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Blue Bell Ice Cream: A Century at the Little Creamery in Brenham, Texas 1907-2007
$0.00 Read moreA century after it first opened its doors, the “Little Creamery in Brenham” is still going strong, gaining new fans every day. This charming book celebrating Blue Bell’s first 100 years tells the stor… [more below]
- Author: Macinerney, Dorothy McLeod
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 147
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1585445940
- Language: English
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Silent Star: The Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy
$12.95 Read moreThe biography of William Ellsworth Hoy, the first deaf player to have a successful career in professional and Major League baseball.
Now in paperback!
William Hoy loved baseball. Growing up in the 1860s
- Author: Wise, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1620148080
- Language: English
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The Spacesuit: How a Seamstress Helped Put Man on the Moon
$18.99 Read moreAn inspirational true-story about the a group of seamstresses who designed the spacesuit for the first men to walk on the Moon!
“Ellie’s team was small, and they only had six weeks. Many believed
- Author: Donald, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1848864159
- Language: English
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Louise Bourgeois
$15.99 Read moreIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Louise Bourgeois, the inspiring French-American sculptor and installat… [more below]
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #48
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0711246904
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of Patton a Soldier’s Date with Destiny: Could World War II’s Greatest General Have Stopped the Cold War?
$27.99 Read more“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.” — General George S. Patton
It is 75 years since the end of WW II and the strange, mysterious death of General George S. Patton, but as in life, P
- Author: Orlando, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1630061751
- Language: English
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Leaving Lymon
$8.99 Add to cartA companion novel to Finding Langston, recipient of a Coretta Scott King Writing Honor and winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction.
Behind every bad boy is a story worth hearing and a- Series: The Finding Langston Trilogy #2
- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0823449424
- Language: English
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The Murder Factory: Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer
$19.95 Read moreThe simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.
In 1896, at the age of 35, Henry Howard Holmes, whose real name was
- Author: Midal, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 3956795431
- Language: English
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The Riviera House
$15.99 Add to cartA lush and engrossing novel of one woman’s quest to keep Nazis from stealing priceless art during WWII, perfect for fans of The Rose Code.
Paris, 1939: The Nazis think ?liane can’t understand German.- Author: Lester, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 153871731X
- Language: English
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Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary
$11.99 Read moreLearn about the 1907 outbreak of typhoid fever and “Typhoid Mary” in this book perfect to share with young readers interested in a historical perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic that is gripping the … [more below]
- Series: Deadly Diseases
- Author: Jarrow, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1635925150
- Language: English
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Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression
$7.99 Read moreSTARRED REVIEW! “Weatherford never talks down to her audience…using figurative language and rich vocabulary to tell her story…Green’s debut as a picture-book illustrator is brilliant…A fine intr
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 080751702X
- Language: English
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Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
$20.00 Read moreA Smithsonian Best History Book of the Year
Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize
Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
Winner of the Order of the Coif Award
Winner of the Sidney M. Edelstein Prize
Winn- Author: Seo, Sarah A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0674260341
- Language: English
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The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century
$32.00 Read moreA fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating the “sound of Hollywood,” and excluding hundreds of composers
“[Mauceri’s] writing is mo- Author: Mauceri, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0300233701
- Language: English
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The Winter Rose
$15.99 Read moreIn this gripping WWII time-slip novel from the author whose books have been called “propulsive” and a “must-read” (Publishers Weekly), Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy… [more below]
- Author: Dobson, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1496444221
- Language: English
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The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
$32.00 Read moreA magisterial intellectual history of the last century of American conservatism
When most people think of the history of modern conservatism, they think of Ronald Reagan. Yet this narrow view leaves ma
- Author: Continetti, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600509
- Language: English
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Pigs, Missiles and the CIA: Volume 2 – Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
$29.95 Read moreVolume 2 continues the story of Cuba following the Bay of Pigs Invasion and examines the development and timeline of the missile crisis as events jumped between Washington, DC, Moscow, Havanna, and th… [more below]
- Series: Latin America@War
- Author: Bromley, Linda Rios
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1915070759
- Language: English
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Murder at Beacon Rock
$26.00 Read moreThe New York Yacht Club’s exclusive gathering at Newport, Rhode Island’s Beacon Rock mansion hits stormy seas in the summer of 1900 when reporter Emma Cross, a lesser Vanderbilt, discovers a drowned c… [more below]
- Series: Gilded Newport Mystery
- Author: Maxwell, Alyssa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1496736176
- Language: English
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Marmee
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Caroline, a revealing retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved Little Women, from the perspective of Margaret “Marmee” March, about the larger real-world challenges behind the cozy
- Author: Miller, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0063266075
- Language: English
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Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago’s Uptown Community
$24.95 Read moreHelen Shiller recounts her independent path of resistance: from the student anti-war movement of the 1960s to a Black Panther Party alliance to Mayor Harold Washington’s 26th vote to lonely voice agai
- Author: Shiller, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1642598429
- Language: English
