Chronological Period/20th Century
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Teddy Roosevelt Was a Moose?
$16.95 Read moreDid you know that Theodore Roosevelt was shot before a rally, and went on to give his speech with the bullet in his chest? Or that he skinny-dipped in the Potomac River? Bet you didn’t know that he ha… [more below]
- Series: Wait! What?
- Author: Gutman, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324015640
- Language: English
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In Harm’s Way (Young Readers Edition): The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Story of Its Survivors
$19.99 Read moreA young readers edition of Doug Stanton and Michael J. Tougias’ New York Times bestseller In Harm’s Way–a riveting World War II account of the greatest maritime disaster in US naval history.
“A maste- Series: True Rescue
- Author: Tougias, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250771323
- Language: English
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France’s War in Indochina: Volume 1: The Tiger Versus the Elephant, 1946-1949
$29.95 Read more“…a very interesting book with insights into how French forces dealt with Viet Minh tactics and strategies, anticipating almost the same problems faced by American forces in Vietnam nearly twenty ye… [more below]
- Series: Asia@War
- Author: Rookes, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: July 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1804510149
- Language: English
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La Batarde
$18.95 Add to cartAn obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La B?arde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own i
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Leduc, Violette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974575
- Language: English
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Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
$21.00 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER (The Globe and Mail)
A Globe and Mail Best Book 2011]
A Quill & Quire Book of the Year 2011]
A National Post Best Book 2011]
A BBC Radio Book of the Week October 2011]
One of … [more below]- Author: Aguirre, Carmen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0345813820
- Language: English
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Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed
$25.95 Add to cart“While there have been other books about Aldrich Ames, Circle of Treason is the first account written by CIA agents who were key members of the CIA team that conducted the intense “Ames Mole Hunt.” Sa… [more below]
- Author: Grimes, Sandra V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1591143969
- Language: English
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Dime Quién Soy / Tell Me Who I Am
$16.95 Read moreEspionaje e intriga en estado puro, amores y desamores desgarrados, aventura e historia de un siglo hecho pedazos, Dime qui n soy es un apasionante relato protagonizado por unos personajes inolvidable… [more below]
- Author: Navarro, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 8490322228
- Language: Spanish
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Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You
$9.99 Read moreWith poetic text and dynamic art, award-winning creators Carole Boston Weatherford and James E. Ransome use key moments from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life to inspire future generations to stand up
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1547608978
- Language: English
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Blue at the Mizzen
$15.95 Read moreNapoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey’s crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey’s career prospects in a peaceti… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #20
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035277
- Language: English
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Sergeant Reckless: The True Story of the Little Horse Who Became a Hero
$19.99 Read moreThe inspiring true story of Reckless, the brave little horse who became a Marine.
When a group of US Marines fighting in the Korean War found a bedraggled mare, they wondered if she could be trained t
- Author: McCormick, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0062292595
- Language: English
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The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World
$38.00 Add to cartNearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia’s access to detailed information on the United States and it… [more below]
- Author: Davies, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 022638957X
- Language: English
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On the Home Front with Valentina: A Diary from 1940 to 1943
$28.65 Read moreCreated in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Latino, Nuestras Voces shares inspiring Latino stories. In 1940, eleven-year-old Valentina lives in El Paso,… [more below]
- Series: Nuestras Voces
- Author: Oviedo, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669012727
- Language: English
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Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch: The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse
$23.99 Read moreThanks to the classic Dolly Parton film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and ZZ Top’s ode “La Grange,” many people think they know the story of the infamous Chicken Ranch. The reality is more compl… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Blaschke, Jayme Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153931
- Language: English
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Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International
$39.95 Read moreHope, Struggle and Defeat: The Communist International and the Global Fight for Freedom
The Communist International was the first organised attempt to bring about worldwide revolution and left a last- Author: Studer, Brigitte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1839768010
- Language: English
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Dolly Parton
$8.99 Read moreIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Dolly Parton, the singer-songwriter and businesswoman.
Little Dolly- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #28
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0711283877
- Language: English
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The Foxes of Belair: Gallant Fox, Omaha, and the Quest for the Triple Crown
$52.43 Read more- Series: Horses in History
- Author: Kelly, Jennifer S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0813197376
- Language: English
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The Dressmaker’s Gift
$14.95 Read moreA Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts bestseller.
From the bestselling author of The Beekeeper’s Promise comes a gripping story of three young women faced with impossible choices. H
- Author: Valpy, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 287
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1542005132
- Language: English
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Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times
$28.95 Read moreNeil Peart decided to drive his BMW Z-8 automobile from L.A. to Big Bend National Park, in Southwest Texas. As he sped along “between the gas-gulping SUVs and asthmatic Japanese compacts clumping in t… [more below]
- Author: Peart, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: August 03 2004
- ISBN10: 1550226649
- Language: English
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Ruby, Head High: Ruby Bridge’s First Day of School
$19.99 Read moreInspired by an iconic Norman Rockwell painting and translated from an original French text, this is a story about the day a little girl held her head high and changed the world.
- Author: Cohen-Janca, Irene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1568463413
- Language: English
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Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift’s Chocolate Pilot
$9.95 Add to cartOne WWII pilot’s mission to lift the spirits of children living in war-torn Berlin in 1945 comes to life in this moving middle-grade historical account. After World War II the United States and Britai… [more below]
- Author: Tunnell, Michael O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1580893376
- Language: English
