Chronological Period/20th Century
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural ant- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0525432329
- Language: English
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Our Darkest Night: A Novel of Italy and the Second World War
$18.99 Add to cartTo survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer’s wife in this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson–a story of terror, hope, love, and
- Author: Robson, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0062674978
- Language: English
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A Nation of Immigrants
$15.99 Add to cart“In this timeless book, President Kennedy shows how the United States has always been enriched by the steady flow of men, women, and families to our shores. It is a reminder that America’s best leader
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0062859692
- Language: English
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust–conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”–Th… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1101903473
- Language: English
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Murder at Beacon Rock
$16.95 Read moreThe New York Yacht Club’s exclusive gathering at Newport, Rhode Island’s Beacon Rock mansion hits stormy seas in the summer of 1900 when reporter Emma Cross, a lesser Vanderbilt, discovers a drowned c… [more below]
- Series: Gilded Newport Mystery
- Author: Maxwell, Alyssa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1496749928
- Language: English
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The Stolen Hours: An Epic Romantic Tale of Forbidden Love, Book Two of the Wild Isle Series
$27.99 Read more‘A dramatic start to a gripping new series . . . meticulously researched and beautifully told by one of our most prolific and talented writers’ – Santa Montefiore, author of Flappy Investigates on The
- Series: Wild Isles #2
- Author: Swan, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1529084415
- Language: English
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Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1: 1932-1955
$50.00 Read moreSince Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in… [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 149683500X
- Language: English
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Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
$32.00 Add to cartThe compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation’s cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight
Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities.- Author: Sandoval-Strausz, A. K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1541697243
- Language: English
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Land of Love and Drowning
$17.00 Add to cartA critically acclaimed debut from an award-winning writer–an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands.
In the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from- Author: Yanique, Tiphanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1594633819
- Language: English
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To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
$25.00 Read more“Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air.” –NPR
In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation “as specu
- Series: Bagley Wright Lecture
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1940696615
- Language: English
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The Untold History of the United States
$25.00 Add to cart“Indispensable…There is much here to reflect upon.” –President Mikhail Gorbachev
“As riveting, eye-opening, and thought-provoking as any history book you will ever read…Can’t recommend it highly- Author: Stone, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1982102535
- Language: English
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Últimos DÃas En BerlÃn
$22.95 Read moreCuando el amor y la esperanza son más poderosos que el odio y la furia.
Cuando Yuri Santacruz asistió al nombramiento como canciller de Adolf Hitler, no podÃa imaginar lo mucho que cambiarÃa su vid
- Author: Sánchez-Garnica, Paloma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 6070783123
- Language: Spanish
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The Prince of Steel Pier
$9.99 Read moreWinner of the National Jewish Book Award
A Sydney Taylor Notable Book
Tablet Magazine’s Best Jewish Kids Books of the Year
A young teen falls in with the mob, and learns a lesson about what
- Author: Nockowitz, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1728430348
- Language: English
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Cosechando Esperanza: La Historia de Cesar Chavez
$9.99 Read moreWhen Cesar Chavez led a 340-mile peaceful protest march through California, he ignited a cause and improved the lives of thousands of migrant farmworkers. But he wasn’t always a leader. As a boy he wa
- Author: Krull, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0152051694
- Language: Spanish
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The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution (2nd Ed)
$29.99 Read moreSuppression of the truth and the rise of propaganda. Refugees, killing squads, and gulags. Intentionally created chaos, destruction, famine, persecution — and mass death. These are the dark fruits of
- Author: Carroll, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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F-104 Starfighter: Lockheed’s Sleek Cold War Interceptor
$24.99 Read moreLockheed developed the F-104 Starfighter in the late 1950s. The plane was designed to be an all-weather interceptor. Speed, climb, and altitude all were priorities, and the plane did turn out to be ex… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation #65
- Author: Doyle, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0764367862
- Language: English
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The Diver
$19.00 Read moreMarta doesn’t mean to kill her husband. In fact, she hardly believes that he’s dead. After a dramatic accident leaves him drowned at the bottom of Lake Michigan, she embarks on a grief-fueled descent … [more below]
- Author: Knight, Samsun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 237
- Publish Date: November 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1609389271
- Language: English
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The County Line
$16.99 Read moreFrom Steve Weddle, the author who the New York Times calls “downright dazzling,” comes the story of a prodigal son returning home to hard times and harder choices during the Great Depression.
Life has
- Author: Weddle, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 301
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 166251526X
- Language: English
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Quotations of Martin Luther King
$12.95 Add to cartThis pocket-sized hardcover book contains nearly one hundred quotations from leading civil rights activist and American Baptist minister, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. King was a central figure … [more below]
- Series: Quotations of Great Americans
- Author: King, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1557099472
- Language: English
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In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power
$18.00 Add to cartExplores the distinctive instruments of American ascent to global domination and hegemony–including covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and surveillance.
- Series: Dispatch Books
- Author: McCoy, Alfred W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 359
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1608467732
- Language: English
