Chronological Period/20th Century
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Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion
$60.00 Add to cartEntertainment reporter Marcellas Reynolds’s“coffee-table book is the first-ever collection of works devoted to celebrating black models. Fashion devotees will find glorious images of supers such as Im
- Author: Reynolds, Marcellas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1419736140
- Language: English
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
$18.99 Add to cartIn this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and
- Author: Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346105
- Language: English
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Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
$19.00 Add to cartA mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more
Van Morrison’s Astr- Author: Walsh, Ryan H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0735221367
- Language: English
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Las Hijas de la Criada. Premio Planeta 2023 / The Maid’s Daughters
$23.95 Add to cartHay secretos de familia que merecen ser contados.
Esta es la historia de uno de ellos.
Una noche de febrero de 1900, reci?n estrenado el siglo XX, en el pazo de Esp?ritu Santo llegan al mundo dos ni?as
- Author: Ónega, Sonsoles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 6073910258
- Language: Spanish
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Rosa: (Caldecott Honor Book)
$9.99 Add to cartFifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This tribute to
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0312376022
- Language: English
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Bomb: The Race to Build–And Steal–The World’s Most Dangerous Weapon (Newbery Honor Book & National Book Award Finalist)
$24.99 Read morePerfect for middle grade readers and history enthusiasts, New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin presents the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructi
- Author: Sheinkin, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1596434872
- Language: English
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Las Guerras de Los Mi?rcoles / The Wednesday Wars
$12.95 Read moreNovela ganadora del Newbery Honor
Holling Hoodhood est? en problemas. Acaba de comenzar el s?ptimo grado con la se?ora Baker, y presiente que la maestra tiene algo en su contra. Por qu? otra raz?n lo… [more below]- Author: Schmidt, Gary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1644736802
- Language: Spanish
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Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations
$27.95 Read moreThe poignant rise and fall of an idealistic immigrant who, as CEO of a major conglomerate, tried to change the way America did business before he himself was swallowed up by corporate corruption.
At 8- Author: Garcia, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0674980808
- Language: English
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I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America’s Mayor, and Why He Still Matters
$30.00 Read more“In our current dismal passage of American politics, it’s exhilarating to read about a politician who exemplified all the qualities–courage, honesty, vision, energy, disdain for hypocrisy, concern fo
- Author: Golway, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 125028578X
- Language: English
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The Bulldog Detective: William J. Flynn and America’s First War Against the Mafia, Spies, and Terrorists
$29.95 Read moreAmerica in the early twentieth century was rife with threats. Organized crime groups like the Mafia, German spies embedded behind enemy lines ahead of World War I, package bombs sent throughout the co
- Author: Simon, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1633888657
- Language: English
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His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina
$18.00 Read moreAt once a loving legacy and an unsparing depiction of a devastating illness, Danielle Steel’s tribute to her lost son is a gift of life, hope, healing, and understanding to us all.
“This is the story- Author: Steel, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2000
- ISBN10: 0385334672
- Language: English
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A Plague on Both Your Houses: A Novel in the Shadow of the Russian Mafia
$26.99 Read moreA brand-new novel from New York Times bestselling author Robert Littell, A Plague on Both Your Houses is a thrilling tale of love and war.
On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minu
- Author: Littell, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79821E+12
- Language: English
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The Fifties: An Underground History
$17.99 Add to cartAn “exciting and enlightening revisionist history” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, br… [more below]
- Author: Gaines, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1439101647
- Language: English
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Flight from Chile: An Oral History of Exile
$41.58 Add to cart2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of General Pinochet’s coup on September 11, 1973. During the wave of mass arrests, torture, and executions that followed, people began fleeing Chile. Over the next … [more below]
- Author: Wright, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826365485
- Language: English
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The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina
$17.60 Read moreIt has long been known that Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and many other Nazi war criminals found refuge in Argentina. In this book, a courageous Argentinian writer shows exactly how it
- Author: Goni, Uki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1783789255
- Language: English
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The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
$22.00 Add to cart“Relying on a rich cache of previously classified notes, transcripts, cables, policy briefs, and memoranda, Andrew Cooper explains how oil drove, even corrupted, American foreign policy during a time … [more below]
- Author: Cooper, Andrew Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1439155186
- Language: English
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
$23.99 Add to cartNow with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the Civil Rights Era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institu… [more below]
- Author: McWhorter, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1476709513
- Language: English
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Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
$19.95 Add to cartThe resistance of great Native American warriors to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great r… [more below]
- Author: Burnham, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 149620767X
- Language: English
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The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$15.99 Add to cartCreated as a living memorial to the philosophies and ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this essential volume includes more than 120 quotations from the greatest civil rights leader’s speeches, ser
- Series: Newmarket Words of
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 19 2001
- ISBN10: 155704483X
- Language: English
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Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland
$25.99 Add to cartA candid and brutal account of murder, abduction, and violence during the Troubles in Northern Ireland-from two men on opposite sides of the conflict.
After ‘the long war’ in Ireland came to an end,- Author: Moloney, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1586489321
- Language: English
