Chronological Period/21st Century
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The Story of Motown
$17.95 Read more- In 2018, ITV Studios and Reelz will release a documentary about the Supremes on which Peter Benjaminson will appear
- Also in 2018, CNN will broadcast a four-part series about Detroit in 1963. Benjaminso
- Author: Benjaminson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 13, 2018
- ISBN10: 1947856235
- Language: English
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Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
$15.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn–then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage–set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hu… [more below]
- Author: Kirn, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1631490222
- Language: English
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The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
$21.99 Add to cartIn this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia’s most feared power bro… [more below]
- Author: Hoffman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 1610390709
- Language: English
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Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
$44.00 Add to cartIn this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America’s Special Operations Forces.
A… [more below]- Author: McRaven, William H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1538715538
- Language: English
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The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid
$17.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, this haunting, insightful, and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein provides “a brief, but powerful, meditation on the meaning… [more below]
- Author: Bardenwerper, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 150111784X
- Language: English
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Donny’s Unauthorized Technical Guide to Harley-Davidson, 1936 to Present: Volume V: Part I of II-The Shovelhead: 1966 to 1985
$50.95 Add to cartDonny Petersen, who studied privately with Harley-Davidson engineers, shares practical knowledge and street-wise tips in the fifth volume of his unauthorized guide on the best motorcycle maker in the
- Author: Petersen, Donny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 776
- Publish Date: August 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1475942842
- Language: English
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A Puget Sound Orca in Captivity: The Fight to Bring Lolita Home
$21.99 Add to cartOn August 8, 1970, the Southern Resident orcas of Puget Sound were herded into Penn Cove on Whidbey Island by explosives, spotter planes and speedboats in a coordinated effort to capture seven young w… [more below]
- Author: Pollard, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1467140376
- Language: English
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My Trip Down the Pink Carpet
$16.99 Add to cartA hilarious romp from small-town USA to the pink carpet of Hollywood with beloved Emmy Award-winning actor, playwright, popular and laugh-out-loud funny Instagram icon, and gay legend.
Leslie Jordan w- Author: Jordan, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1439153485
- Language: English
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Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
$17.99 Add to cartNow in paperback, from a “multi-faceted, medium-hopping, culture skewering performer” (SPIN), this is a journey through the world of Patton Oswalt, best known for his roles in film (Big Fan and Ratato… [more below]
- Author: Oswalt, Patton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1439149097
- Language: English
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Historic Tales of St. Louis
$23.99 Read moreThe Tales That Made St. Louis St. Louis may be known as the Gateway to the West, but its history holds many stories buried through time that show a different side. Discover which Hollywood leading man
- Series: Forgotten Tales
- Author: Zeman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153281
- Language: English
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The Desperate Hours: One Hospital’s Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic’s Front Lines
$19.99 Add to cartAWARD-WINNING VANITY FAIR WRITER Marie Brenner shares a remarkable depiction of New York–a city in crisis–based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting that captures the resilience, peril, and compassio
- Author: Brenner, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1250837154
- Language: English
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I, Who Did Not Die
$22.00 Add to cartKhorramshahr, Iran, May 1982–It was the bloodiest battle of one of the most brutal wars of the twentieth century, and Najah, a twenty-nine-year-old wounded Iraqi conscript, was face to face with a th… [more below]
- Author: Haftlang, Zahed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1682451682
- Language: English
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Movement Makers: How Young Activists Upended the Politics of Climate Change Second edition
$16.99 Add to cartSchool strikes for the climate. A bold campaign for a Green New Deal. Fossil fuel divestment. Over the last few years, these and other youth-driven climate initiatives have grabbed the public’s attent… [more below]
- Author: Engelfried, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9798986958422
- Language: English
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A Wall in Palestine
$20.00 Add to cartThe West Bank Barrier is expected to be completed in 2010. Declared illegal by the United Nations International Court of Justice, this network of concrete walls, trenches, and barbed-wire fences could
- Author: Backman, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312427816
- Language: English
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You Were Never in Chicago
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the “Second City.” From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling’s withering gaze. A
- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Steinberg, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 22 2013
- ISBN10: 022610415X
- Language: English
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China
$46.99 Add to cartThis lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the prese… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Illustrated History
- Author: Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199683751
- Language: English
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Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
$18.99 Add to cartA sweeping and original work of economic history by Michael Lind, one of America’s leading intellectuals, Land of Promise recounts the epic story of America’s rise to become the world’s dominant econo
- Author: Lind, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0061834815
- Language: English
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The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers
$20.99 Add to cart“A masterful depiction of the party today. . . . McGregor illuminates the most important of the contradictions and paradoxes. . . . An entertaining and insightful portrait of China’s secretive rulers.
- Author: McGregor, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0061708763
- Language: English
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Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
$17.99 Add to cartThe poems in Robert Hass’s new collection–his first to appear in a decade–are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture
- Author: Hass, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 07 2008
- ISBN10: 0061350281
- Language: English
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The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson
$17.99 Add to cartWarning *
This book contains the following:
Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives
Cultivation of illegal crops
Impressionable minors being exposed to illicit activities
Piloting
- Author: Cleverly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 006115928X
- Language: English
