Chronological Period/20th Century
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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 Read moreThe 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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Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination
$16.99 Add to cartA New York Times Best Seller
Richard Belzer and David Wayne are back to set the record straight after Dead Wrong; this time they’re going to uncover the truth about the many witness deaths tied to th- Author: Belzer, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 07, 2016
- ISBN10: 1634508521
- 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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Vip: Lewis Latimer: Engineering Wizard
$7.99 Read moreGet ready to light up the world with Lewis Latimer in this exciting middle grade nonfiction biography. Perfect for fans of the Who Was and Little Leaders series, the books in the VIP series tell the t
- Series: VIP
- Author: Patrick, Denise Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0062889664
- Language: English
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Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919-1933 the Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919-1933
$28.95 Add to cartCalled “one of the most useful and illuminating studies of Nazism” by The New Yorker, this highly acclaimed work of history unravels the secret financial web which Hitler spun across Europe and around… [more below]
- Author: Pool, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 22 2006
- ISBN10: 0671760831
- Language: English
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Mississippi Bear Hunter Holt Collier: Guiding Teddy Roosevelt and a Lifetime of Adventure
$24.99 Read moreAuthor Mark Neaves guides readers on an incredible tale through the life of one of America’s greatest adventurers.
Born into slavery in the Mississippi Delta in 1847, Holt Collier was taught to hunt
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Neaves, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 146715458X
- Language: English
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Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity: A Long View of History
$12.00 Read moreWhere did humanity come from?
How did we arrive where we are today?
Why is that even important?Because without understanding how human society, since our remotest ancestors, has been created through soc… [more below]
- Author: Engels, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: January 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1604881208
- Language: English
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Downtown, Up River: Bangor in the 1970s
$24.95 Read moreCaught at a tipping point between the city it was and the city it could be, in the 1970s Bangor, Maine was undergoing rapid change, both physical and social. As the urban renewal program and the openi… [more below]
- Author: Burnham, Emily Stoddard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1952143675
- Language: English
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Across the Border 4
$9.99 Add to cartLife on the Rush farm in South Dakota is not easy. Even so, over the past four years, Ethan Cooper and his siblings have grown to feel they belong with their adoptive family.
Then Chad Rush makes an- Series: Beyond the Orphan Train #4
- Author: Richardson, Arleta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0781413583
- Language: English
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Meet Me in Monaco: A Novel of Grace Kelly’s Royal Wedding
$16.99 Read more“A fragrant French bonbon of a book: love, glamour, perfume, and paparazzi all circling around the wedding of the century…”–Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of THE ALICE NETWORK and TH
- Author: Gaynor, Hazel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0062885367
- Language: English
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Signs of Hope: The Revolutionary Art of Sister Corita Kent
$19.99 Add to cartSigns of Hope is a picture book biography of groundbreaking artist, teacher, and Catholic nun Corita Kent from critically acclaimed author Mara Rockliff, with stunning full-color art from Caldecott Ho… [more below]
- Author: Rockliff, Mara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1419752219
- Language: English
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The Lost Wife
$18.00 Add to cartA rapturous novel of star-crossed love in a time of war–from the international bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds.
During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art studen- Author: Richman, Alyson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 042524413X
- Language: English
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Helen’s Big World: The Life of Helen Keller
$9.99 Add to cartA heartwarming portrait of an unforgettable woman by the critically acclaimed author of Abe’s Honest Words and Martin’s Big Words.
This picture book biography is an excellent and accessible introduct- Series: Big Words #6
- Author: Rappaport, Doreen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 148474960X
- Language: English
