Chronological Period/20th Century
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The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis the Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis
$10.95 Read moreThis new entry in the innovative “Story” line of chapter-book biographies focuses on John Lewis, a leader in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and a revered Congressman today.
The son of an Alabam
- Series: Story of
- Author: Benson, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1620148544
- Language: English
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Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro’s Gulag
$16.95 Read moreAgainst All Hope is Armando Valladares’ account of over twenty years in Fidel Castro’s tropical gulag. Arrested in 1960 for being philosophically and religiously opposed to communism, Valladares was n… [more below]
- Author: Valladares, Armando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 423
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1893554198
- Language: English
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The Order of the Day
$14.99 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Boston Globe, and Literary Hub
Winner of the 2017 Goncourt Prize, this behind-the-scenes account of the manipulation, hubris, and greed that together led to Nazi- Author: Vuillard, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1635420407
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
$27.95 Read moreThe term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The fi
- Author: Dreilinger, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1324004495
- Language: English
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Picturing a Nation: The Great Depression’s Finest Photographers Introduce America to Itself
$24.99 Add to cartA National Book Award winner mines photographic gold to show–and tell–the story of the Great Depression.
In an exquisitely curated volume of 140 full-color and black-and-white photographs, Martin W- Author: Sandler, Martin W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1536215252
- Language: English
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Call Me a Cab
$16.99 Read moreThe final unpublished novel by MWA Grandmaster – a wild, romantic road trip across America by taxi cab – demonstrates why this beloved author is so fondly remembered and so dearly missed.
“A book by t- Author: Westlake, Donald E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1789098181
- Language: English
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La Intemporalidad Perdida Y Otros Relatos / Waste of Timelessness, and Other Early Stories
$17.95 Read moreNIN IN?DITA
«Antes de Lena Dunham, estuvo Ana?s Nin.
La mejor introducci?n a la obra de una autora admirada por lectores y escritores de ayer y de hoy: diecis?is relatos apasionantes
Sady Doyle,- Author: Nin, Ana?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 8426411169
- Language: Spanish
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Chaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center
$29.00 Read moreA recent history of the Democratic Party that identifies its chronic errors–the “pathologies” of the New Democratic mindset–and argues urgently against a return to the status quo
Why did the Democ- Author: Burmila, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1645030024
- Language: English
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Hermione
$19.95 Read moreThis autobiographical novel by the Imagist poet H. D. (1886-1961) is a rare and hallucinatory treasure. In writing HERmione, H. D. returned to a year in her life that was “peculiarly blighted.” She wa… [more below]
- Author: Doolittle, Hilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0811222098
- Language: English
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The Blue Nile
$17.99 Add to cartIn the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterra
- Author: Moorehead, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956402
- Language: English
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Nelson Mandela
$11.99 Add to cartThis stunning picture book biography of Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson is a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Honor award.
In this lush, acclaimed book, award-winning author-illustrator Kadir Nelson
- Author: Nelson, Kadir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0061783773
- Language: English
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I Am Martin Luther King Jr. (I Am #4): Volume 4
$5.99 Read moreA brand-new biography series featuring some of the most important people from history and today.
I helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott. I am only 34 when I give the “I Have a Dream” speech. I am… [more below]
- Series: I Am #4
- Author: Norwich, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0545447801
- Language: English
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What Is Rock and Roll?
$7.99 Read morePut on your dancing shoes and move to the music.
Rock and roll sprang from a combination of African-American genres, Western swing, and country music that exploded in post World War II America. Jim O’- Series: What Was?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 045153381X
- Language: English
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
$16.00 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A literary tour de force that chronicles a prize-winning author’s descent into an almost suicidal depression.
“Compelling … Harrowing … a vivid portrait of a debilitating- Author: Styron, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 08 1992
- ISBN10: 0679736395
- Language: English
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Creative Haven Jazz Age Fashions Coloring Book
$7.99 Read moreThese are the styles that made the Twenties roar Thirty-one gracefully rendered and historically accurate images recapture the era’s fashions, depicting flappers ― and the occasional sheik R… [more below]
- Series: Creative Haven Coloring Books
- Author: Sun, Ming-Ju
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0486810496
- Language: English
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McTeague
$7.00 Read moreAlthough otherwise ignorant and ineffectual, McTeague has managed to eke out a meager career as an unlicensed dentist. His dreary existence rapidly improves upon meeting and marrying Trina, whose poss… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Norris, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0486831760
- Language: English
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Best of the ’80s Coloring Book: Color Your Way Through 1980s Art & Pop Culture
$14.99 Read moreColor your way through 1980s pop culture with Best of the ’80s Coloring Book!
Mix coloring with nostalgia, and you have an upbeat activity book that is also therapeutic, for a fun and relaxing escape
- Series: Color Through the Decades #1
- Author: Walter Foster Creative Team
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0760381232
- Language: English
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Janet Reno: A Life
$35.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited biography of the first woman to serve as United States attorney general, written with exclusive access to the personal archives of Reno and her family and based on over 40 interviews
- Author: Stiehm, Judith Hicks
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0813069688
- Language: English
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Visiting Langston
$11.99 Read moreA wonderful picture book introduction to a legendary American writer
It’s a special day when a little girl and her father go to visit the house where the great poet Langston Hughes lived–especially- Author: Perdomo, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0805078819
- Language: English
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Coming to America Through the Angel Island Immigration Station: A History Seeking Adventure
$34.65 Read moreYOU are an Asian immigrant in the early 1900s. You dream of a life in American, but first you’ll have to pass through the Angel Island Immigration Station. How long will you be stuck there? And will y… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Seeking History
- Author: Collins, Ailynn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669032558
- Language: English
