Chronological Period/20th Century
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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
$17.00 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
$8.99 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 Add to cartColor 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 Add to cartYOU 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
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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
