Chronological Period/20th Century
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Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
$24.00 Add to cart“An exemplary biography–exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed.” —The Wall Street Journal
The de… [more below]- Author: Whyte, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 030774387X
- Language: English
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All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
$18.99 Read moreArchetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these
- Author: Gessner, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352374
- Language: English
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Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
$21.95 Add to cartCundill Prize Finalist
“Superbly original…Breaks new ground by showing how a collective consciousness emerged among revolutio
An Economist Best Book of the Year
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year- Author: Harper, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 067429212X
- Language: English
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Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman
$8.99 Read moreWhen Bessie Coleman was a child, she wanted to be in school — not in the cotton fields of Texas, helping her family earn money. She wanted to be somebody significant in the world. So Bessie did every… [more below]
- Author: Borden, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0689864620
- Language: English
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Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1975-90: The Ultimate Generation of Cold War Heavy Armor
$20.00 Read moreA comprehensive, illustrated account of the new generation of advanced tanks to emerge during the last 15 years of the Cold War, showcasing major improvements in armor protection, gunsights, and fire
- Series: New Vanguard #323
- Author: Zaloga, Steven J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1472853806
- Language: English
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A Fashionable Fatality
$26.00 Read moreSet in the Downton Abbey era of post-WW1 England, Alyssa Maxwell’s latest historical mystery finds sleuthing duo Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s maid, Eva Huntford, investigating a murder at a hous… [more below]
- Series: Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery
- Author: Maxwell, Alyssa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1496734912
- Language: English
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Bud, Not Buddy
$19.99 Read more- Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1432850466
- Language: English
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Dove Descending: A Journey Into T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
$16.95 Read moreThroughout the world, many consider T.S. Eliot to be the most important and influential poet of the 20th century, and Four Quartets to be his finest poem and greatest literary achievement. Dove Descen… [more below]
- Series: Sapienta Classics
- Author: Howard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 02 2006
- ISBN10: 1586170406
- Language: English
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All Out!: An Autobiography
$30.99 Add to cartThis candid autobiography, the last work by renowned psychologist Albert Ellis, is a tour de force of stimulating ideas, colorful descriptions of memorable people and events, and straightforward, no-n… [more below]
- Series: Psychology
- Author: Ellis, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 668
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1591024528
- Language: English
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Vaccines Change the World
$19.99 Read more2022 Foreword INDIES Finalist – Juvenile Nonfiction
With its colorful text and illustrations, this book explains the world’s pandemics and the people who helped save us from them with vaccines.
Unlike
- Series: Science in Action
- Author: King-Cargile, Gillian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0807584819
- Language: English
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Being Clem
$8.99 Add to cartThe final novel in the award-winning Finding Langston trilogy from Coretta Scott King Author Honoree and Scott O’Dell Award medalist Lesa Cline-Ransome.
Clem can make anybody, even his grumpy older si- Series: The Finding Langston Trilogy
- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0823452417
- Language: English
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Mustique Island
$18.99 Read more“A sun-kissed mother-daughter story set against the backdrop of the titular private island.”
–PopSugar’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022
From bestselling author Sarah McCoy, a sun-splashed romp with a
- Author: McCoy, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0062984381
- Language: English
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Babbitt
$10.95 Add to cartAmusing and tragic by turn, Sinclair Lewis’s classic novel is a biting satire of middle-American values whose title has entered the language as a byword for smug complacency, conformity, and materiali… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0199567697
- Language: English
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Churchill: The Power of Words
$22.99 Add to cartA collection of the best and most quoted speeches and writings of Nobel Prize-winner Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill knew the power of words. In speeches, books, and articles, he expressed his fe- Author: Churchill, Winston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0306821974
- Language: English
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Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
$19.00 Read moreIn this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War. Written after the war and as … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Graves, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0385093306
- Language: English
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Lady on the Hill: How Biltmore Estate Became an American Icon
$32.00 Add to cart“What William Cecil has accomplished at Biltmore Estate is one of the great preservation success stories of all time. He has set a high standard for what all historic house museums strive for: magnifi
- Author: Covington, Howard E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0471758183
- Language: English
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Machine Guns in Narragansett Bay: The Coast Guard’s War on Rumrunners
$23.99 Read moreDuring World War I and World War II, Rhode Island was dotted with coastal forts filled with large caliber guns. Yet they were never fired in anger. By contrast, from 1929 to 1933, during Prohibition, … [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: McBurney, Christian M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1467149683
- Language: English
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The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era
$20.00 Read moreThe Black Fives is a groundbreaking, timely history of the largely unknown early days of Black basketball, bringing to life the trailblazing players, teams, and impresarios who pioneered the sport.
“F- Author: Johnson, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1419749781
- Language: English
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Hipbillies: Deep Revolution in the Arkansas Ozarks
$29.95 Add to cartCounterculture flourished nationwide in the 1960s and 1970s, and while the hippies of Haight-Ashbury occupied the public eye, a faction of back to the landers were quietly creating their own haven off… [more below]
- Series: Ozarks Studies
- Author: Phillips, Jared M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1682260909
- Language: English
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Julie: The Big Break
$7.99 Read moreJulie Albright is dealing with big changes since her parents’ divorce. When she finds out that her new school has a basketball team, life starts looking up – until the coach tells her girls aren’t all… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: McDonald, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1683371321
- Language: English
