Chronological Period/20th Century
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Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time
$21.00 Read moreFrom Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.
In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old archite- Author: Uglow, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872561
- Language: English
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I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellon
$24.00 Read more“I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise is like an exquisite string of pearls: the perfect balance of elegance, style, design, and beauty. This book is inspiring, spirited, and totally absorbing.” –Diane
- Author: Griswold, Mac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872626
- Language: English
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Streeterville: Chicago’s Most Exciting Neighborhood
$24.99 Read moreMeet the Chicagoans who had the vision — or the chicanery — to turn a worthless marsh into the amazing cityscape that is modern Streeterville.
The towering buildings between beautiful Lake Michigan a
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Klatt, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151572
- Language: English
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Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America’s First Bookmobile
$18.99 Read moreSharlee Glenn’s picture book Library on Wheels tells the true story of America’s first bookmobile.
If you can’t bring the man to the books, bring the books to the man. Mary Lemist Titcomb (1852-1932)- Author: Glenn, Sharlee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 141972875X
- Language: English
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Duke Kahanamoku: Ready-To-Read Level 3
$5.99 Read moreGet to know the father of modern surfing in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a new series of biographies about people “you should meet.”
Meet Duke Kahanamoku, three-time Oly- Series: You Should Meet
- Author: Calkhoven, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 1481497006
- Language: English
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Rebekkah’s Journey: A World War II Refugee Story
$17.95 Read moreIn 1944 a vacant army base in upstate New York became the temporary home of over 900 men, women and children who had fled Europe towards the end of World War II. With little more than the clothing on … [more below]
- Series: Tales of Young Americans
- Author: Burg, Ann E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 1585362751
- Language: English
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Revolution of Everyday Life
$22.00 Add to cartOriginally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life offered a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the “society of the spectacle” f
- Author: Vaneigem, Raoul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1604866780
- Language: English
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Flying Too High: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
$14.99 Read moreFrom the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Flying Too High, the next historical mystery featuring the unstoppable amateur sleuth Phryne Fisher. And this time around, she takes to th
- Series: Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback) #2
- Author: Greenwood, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1590583957
- Language: English
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Moondoggle: Franklin Roosevelt and the Fight for Tidal-Electric Power at Passamaquoddy Bay
$45.00 Add to cartFor 25 years, Franklin Roosevelt tried to build the world’s first tidal-electric power plant-by harnessing the Bay of Fundy’s giant tides. The enormous project would have dammed-up 110 square miles of… [more below]
- Author: Borton, Mark C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1608937143
- Language: English
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Yves Klein Painted Everything Blue and Wasn’t Sorry.
$17.95 Read moreA clever, quirky read-aloud biography of a leading modern artist, for kids
Artist Yves Klein always thought about how he could surprise his audience. One day, he decided that he would only paint in one
- Author: Gilberti, Fausto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1838660143
- Language: English
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
$21.99 Read more“Better and more comprehensive than any prior account. . . . Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who
- Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0062275658
- Language: English
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Escape from . . . Hurricane Katrina
$5.99 Read more“A satisfying read.” —School Library Journal
Hurricane Katrina was one of the most destructive storms in American history. In this fictional tale, daring twins Jo Jo and Sophie battle the raging floo- Series: Escape from . . .
- Author: Dodson, Judy Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 149981108X
- Language: English
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Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club That Sparked Modern Feminism
$30.00 Read moreThe dazzling story of the Greenwich Village feminists who blazed the trail for the movement’s most radical ideas
On a Saturday in New York City in 1912, around the wooden tables of a popular Greenwich
- Author: Scutts, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1541647173
- Language: English
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The Wine-Dark Sea
$15.95 Add to cartAt the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Steph… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #16
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021543
- Language: English
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1942: Winston Churchill and Britain’s Darkest Hour
$29.95 Read moreA revelatory new work of popular history focused on the year 1942, as the fate of Britain–and Winston Churchill’s leadership–hangs in the balance.
Eighty years ago, Britain stood at the brink of def- Author: Downing, Taylor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362320
- Language: English
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The Shattering: America in the 1960s
$22.00 Read moreOn July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the fol
- Author: Boyle, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036117
- Language: English
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The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy
$19.99 Read moreA brilliant picture book biography about Thurgood Marshall, who fought for equality during the Civil Rights Movement and served as the first Black justice on the Supreme Court, from Coretta Scott King
- Author: Magoon, Kekla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0062912518
- Language: English
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Pop’s Bridge
$19.99 Read moreThe Golden Gate Bridge. The impossible bridge, some call it. They say it can’t be built.
But Robert’s father is building it. He’s a skywalker–a brave, high-climbing ironworker. Robert is convinced hi- Author: Bunting, Eve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0152047735
- Language: English
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The Museum of Innocence
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize winner and “one of the great novelists” (The Washington Post) comes a stirring exploration of the nature of romance in late 1970s Istanbul.
It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbu… [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Pamuk, Orhan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0307386244
- Language: English
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
$17.95 Read moreProhibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to r
- Author: McGirr, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353524
- Language: English
