Chronological Period/20th Century
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No Longer Human
$14.95 Add to cartMine has been a life of much shame. I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human narr
- Series: New Directions Book.
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 17 1973
- ISBN10: 0811204812
- Language: English
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
$20.00 Add to cartErik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd beco… [more below]- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 030740885X
- Language: English
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On the Come Up
$15.99 Add to cartThe YA love letter to hip-hop–streaming on Paramount+ September 23, 2022! Starring Sanaa Lathan (in her directorial debut), Jamila C. Gray, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Lil Yachty, Method Man, Mike Epps, Ga
- Author: Thomas, Angie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0062498584
- Language: English
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
$18.99 Add to cart*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award*
This New York Times bestseller
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 1416591060
- Language: English
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Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
$22.00 Add to cartA New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“[Putin’s People] w
Named a best book of the year by The Economist Financial Times New Statesman The Telegraph- Author: Belton, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250787327
- Language: English
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A Secret History of Witches
$19.99 Add to cartA sweeping historical saga that traces five generations of fiercely powerful mothers and daughters — witches whose magical inheritance is both a dangerous threat and an extraordinary gift.
Brittany,- Author: Morgan, Louisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 01, 2018
- ISBN10: 0316508586
- Language: English
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The Case for Trump
$18.99 Read moreThis New York Times bestselling Trump biography from a major American intellectual explains how a renegade businessman became one of the most successful — and necessary — presidents of all time.
In- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 1541673557
- Language: English
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
$21.99 Add to cart2018 Edgar Award Finalist–Best Fact Crime
“A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” (The Boston Globe)–the definitive story of preac- Author: Guinn, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 10, 2018
- ISBN10: 1476763836
- Language: English
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)–an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March–from the author of Bl
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07, 2002
- ISBN10: 038549565X
- Language: English
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end o
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06, 2019
- ISBN10: 1101904216
- Language: English
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Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream
$27.99 Add to cartThe real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of an American icon
“”Riveting… Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages.””-Newark Star Ledger
“”Like it or not, Hugh Hefner has affected all
- Author: Watts, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: August 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 1684421705
- Language: English
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The Flame Bearer
$16.99 Add to cartThe tenth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)–the basis for
- Series: Saxon Tales #10
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0062250809
- Language: English
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To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton
$16.95 Add to cartA fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America.
Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those interested in th
- Author: Newton, Huey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0872865290
- Language: English
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Education of a Felon: A Memoir
$24.00 Add to cartIn Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was–at seventeen–the
- Author: Bunker, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0312280769
- Language: English
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Water for Elephants
$19.99 Add to cartOver 10 million copies sold worldwide * Now A Broadway Musical Starring Grant Gustin and Isabella McCalla
#1 New York Times Bestseller * A Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Bestsell- Author: Gruen, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1565125606
- Language: English
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Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
$21.99 Add to cartIt has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still very much alive for his fans everywhere. Charles R. Cross vividly recounts the life of Hendrix, from… [more below]
- Author: Cross, Charles R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0786888415
- Language: English
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
$25.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of … [more below]
- Author: Yergin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1439110123
- Language: English
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
$20.00 Add to cartThis groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow o
- Author: Blackmon, Douglas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0385722702
- Language: English
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Her Last Betrayal
$16.99 Read more“A gripping and thrilling tale….INCREDIBLE!.” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
When working for the British Secret Service, Sarah Gillespie can trust no one, not even he
- Author: Lecky, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0008464871
- Language: English
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Murder and Mendelssohn
$14.99 Read moreFrom the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Murder and Mendelssohn, the next murder mystery novel featuring the unstoppable, elegant amateur sleuth. To the accompaniment of heavenly
- Series: Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback) #20
- Author: Greenwood, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1464202486
- Language: English
