Chronological Period/21st Century
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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
$44.99 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
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
$19.99 Add to cart“A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism.” — Chicago Daily Tribune
From Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor-in-chief of Harper’s magazine, comes a classic history of 192
- Author: Allen, Frederick L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0060956658
- Language: English
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Social Contagion: And Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China
$12.00 Read moreSocial Contagion presents the untold story of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Chuang, a collective of communists living inside and outside China, chronicle the struggles of everyday people caught betw… [more below]
- Author: Chuang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0882860070
- Language: English
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Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Patriotism and Heroism
$19.95 Add to cartFor decades, American schoolchildren have learned only a smattering of facts about Native American peoples, especially when it comes to service in the U.S. military. They might know that Navajos serve… [more below]
- Author: Viola, Herman J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0806180315
- Language: English
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American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to Covid-19
$13.00 Read moreA concise history of how American law has shaped–and been shaped by–the experience of contagion, “taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colonies to COVID-19. . . . The conclusion [Witt] arriv… [more below]
- Author: Witt, John Fabian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0300261519
- Language: English
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This Land Is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s Volume 1
$24.95 Add to cartSince well before ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 secured their right to vote, women in Oklahoma have sought to change and uplift their communities through political activism. This La… [more below]
- Series: Women and the American West #1
- Author: Janda, Sarah Eppler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: July 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0806169265
- Language: English
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The Times They Were A-Changin’: 1964, the Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn
$29.99 Read moreAn award-winning historian on the transformative year in the sixties that continues to reverberate in our lives and politics–for readers of Heather Cox Richardson.
If 1968 marked a turning point in a- Author: McElvaine, Robert S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1950994104
- Language: English
