Chronological Period/20th Century
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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 Read moreA 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
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Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History
$83.25 Read moreA sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy–with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship
Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural hist- Author: Sayer, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 069118545X
- Language: English
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Canada
$18.99 Read more“First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later.”
So begins Canada, the unforgettable story of a boy attempting to find grace, written by the only writ
- Author: Ford, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0061692034
- Language: English
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Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: A Compendium
$29.95 Read moreThe Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of antiqu
- Author: Peters, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0060538112
- Language: English
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Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told
$9.99 Read more“An important and inspiring book.” (School Library Journal starred review)
Ida B. Wells worked bravely as an activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and pioneering voice against the horror
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0060544686
- Language: English
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A Sportsman’s Notebook: Stories
$16.99 Read moreTwenty-five beautifully written stories, penned in exile, evocatively depicting life on a manor in feudal Russia and examining the conflicts between serfs and landlords
A Sportsman’s Notebook, Ivan Tur
- Series: Art of the Story
- Author: Turgenev, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0062968475
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
$25.00 Add to cartAbout national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0679720197
- Language: English
