Chronological Period/20th Century
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Pittsburgh and the Great Migration: Black Mobility and the Automobile
$23.99 Read moreDuring the Great Migration of 1916-1940 over two million African Americans left the American South seeking a greater quality of life, with the Steel City a major destination. Men and women packed up w… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Frick Art &. Historical Center
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153141
- Language: English
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Gridiron Legacy: Pro Football’s Missing Origin Story
$49.95 Read moreProfessional football’s backstory was lost, until now. In the beginning, in 1892, pro football was born. Then it effectively died in infamy in 1906. It was resurrected nearly a decade later and soon b
- Author: Ficery, Gregg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1611883709
- Language: English
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Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter
$15.99 Read moreCall and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter is a broad and powerful exploration of the history of Black Lives Matter told through photographs, quotes, and informative text by New York Times bes
- Author: Chambers, Veronica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0063284936
- Language: English
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Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy
$34.99 Read moreThe definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong.
‘What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation.
What do people talk most about? A Coronation.
What is- Author: Strong, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0008550069
- Language: English
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When Winter Robeson Came
$8.99 Read moreThe whole world seems to transform during the summer of 1965, when Eden’s cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in L.A. just as the Watts Riots erupt, in this stirring new novel by Coretta Scott … [more below]
- Author: Woods, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1524741604
- Language: English
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Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom
$19.99 Read moreA New York Times bestseller
In this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President’s Men and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as- Author: Bernstein, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1250869897
- Language: English
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Anne of the Island
$19.99 Read moreAnne Shirley is off to college in this artfully packaged edition of the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series.
Anne is finally off to Redmond College! While she’s sad to be leaving Marilla and- Series: Anne of Green Gables Novel
- Author: Montgomery, L. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1442490055
- Language: English
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Somerset
$17.99 Add to cartGone with the Wind meets The Help in the stunning prequel to Leila Meacham’s bestselling family epic Roses.
“From birth, Jessica had eschewed the role to which she’d been born. Was it because she sen- Author: Meacham, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1455547395
- Language: English
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Lillian Trasher: The Greatest Wonder in Egypt
$11.99 Add to cartWhen Lillian Trasher founded Egypt’s first orphanage, others thought that a lone American woman with no means of support would surely be killed or starve to death. But Lillian – certain of God’s guida… [more below]
- Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1576583058
- Language: English
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The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
$29.95 Add to cartThe Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts–first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets–by hiding them on their bod… [more below]
- Author: Fishman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1512603309
- Language: English
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Fear: A Novel of World War I
$19.95 Read moreA NYRB Classics Original
A young soldier learns the true meaning of fear amidst the carnage of World War I in this literary masterpiece and “one of
Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Chevallier, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177169
- Language: English
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Black Music
$18.95 Read more“Baraka writes with the passion and lyricism that can only come from a jazz critic who is uncompromisingly invested in the social and aesthetic dimensions of the music.” —WBGO (Newark Public Radio)
In
- Series: Akashiclassics: Renegade Reprint
- Author: Jones (Amiri Baraka), Leroi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1933354933
- Language: English
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The Skylark’s Secret
$14.95 Read moreLoch Ewe, 1940. When gamekeeper’s daughter Flora’s remote highland village finds itself the base for the Royal Navy’s Arctic convoys, life in her close-knit community changes forever. In defiance of h
- Author: Valpy, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1542005159
- Language: English
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Claudette Colvin Refuses to Move: Courageous Kid of the Civil Rights Movement
$8.99 Read moreIt’s March 2, 1955, and an ordinary 15-year-old girl from Montgomery, Alabama is about to do something extraordinary. When a white bus driver orders Claudette Colvin to give up her seat for a white pa… [more below]
- Series: Courageous Kids
- Author: Wilkins, Ebony Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496688031
- Language: English
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World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story
$16.99 Read moreCo-written by a New York Times best-selling author, this moving story of a Muslim boy’s exile from war-torn Bosnia to the United States offers a riveting refugee saga.
Kenan loves drawing and- Author: Trebincevic, Kenan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0358439876
- Language: English
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So Happy Together
$16.95 Read moreAs her stultifying marriage is unravelling, and in the midst of mourning
the loss of her creative self, Caro Tanner has a nightmare about Peter,
an old love whom she hasn’t seen in twenty years. She … [more below]- Author: Shepherd, Deborah K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1647420261
- Language: English
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
$21.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of t… [more below]
- Author: Carter, Zachary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0525509054
- Language: English
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The Ionian Mission
$15.95 Add to cartJack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy’s blockade of… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #8
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0393881741
- Language: English
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Speak Up, Speak Out!: The Extraordinary Life of Fighting Shirley Chisholm
$17.99 Read more“A biography of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first Black woman to run for president with a major political party”–
- Author: Bolden, Tonya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1426372361
- Language: English
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The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement
$18.95 Read moreAn authoritative history of the overlooked youth activists that spearheaded the largest protests of the Civil Rights Movement and set the blueprint for future generations of activists to follow.
Some- Author: Franklin, V. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0807055433
- Language: English
