20th Century
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Dream Story (Translated, Annotated, & Illustrated)
$16.95 Add to cartThis new edition of Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler offers readers a new translation from the original German text and a comprehensive exploration of the acclaimed novella, originally published as Tr
- Author: Schnitzler, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: September 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9798349467868
- Language: English
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The Holocaust in American Life
$25.99 Add to cartPrize-winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long — how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization; how American Jews, not
- Author: Novick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0618082328
- Language: English
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The Director
$19.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR – AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A Washington Post NOTABLE BOOK
A Late Show with Stephen Colbert Book Club Pick “Nothing short of brilliant.” —The Wall St- Author: Kehlmann, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1668087804
- Language: English
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The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of The Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast
$18.95 Add to cartOn Aug. 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, R.I. The crooks fled with du… [more below]
- Author: Worcester, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1493009591
- Language: English
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Fatal Friendship: First Phase: From World War I to II
$19.99 Add to cartRising US capitalism presented itself to the world with freedom, democracy, and prosperity. However, the practices of America First-genocide, labor exploitation, and warlike plunder of foreign propert
- Author: Rügemer, Werner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 6054923897
- Language: English
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Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves
$34.00 Add to cartA history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable.
“A tour de force … Read it now.” –Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Aboliti- Author: Schrader, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1541608038
- Language: English
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Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation’s Troubled Homecoming from World War II
$21.99 Add to cartOne of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called “Good War.” The Greatest Generation, we’re told by Tom Brokaw and others, fought heroically, then return… [more below]
- Author: Childers, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0547336926
- Language: English
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A Harlem Wedding
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Warren, Tiffany L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 006332217X
- Language: English
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These Empty Places
$18.99 Add to cartWhen their worlds are upended, two women brought together by their loss discover what truly matters most.
Claire Roth sacrificed love for a life of comfort on Lake Toxaway–until the dam broke, and th… [more below]- Author: Thomas, Sarah Loudin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0764245937
- Language: English
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Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II
$16.99 Add to cartA powerful multicultural history of Americans in World War II, from the acclaimed author of A Different Mirror.
A history of America in World War II is told through the lives of an ethnically divers- Author: Takaki, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0316831565
- Language: English
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The Flag Was Still There: A History of the American Experiment in Five Anniversaries
$32.00 Add to cartA clear-eyed yet hopeful history of the United States, revisiting the state of the union every fifty years since America’s birth.
“Brilliantly written and illuminating.” –Douglas Brinkley, New York- Author: McKean, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1541704169
- Language: English
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Nuclear Weapons: An International History
$38.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold War
How should we deal with nuclear weapons? The discovery of nuclear fission fundamentally c- Author: Holloway, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0300229445
- Language: English
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Island of Ghosts and Dreams
$28.95 Add to cartA woman from a small Greek village finds herself swept up in the long and storied history of her island–and its far-reaching impact–in this unforgettable story of love, passion, and resistance.
Chan- Author: Cosmos, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100569
- Language: English
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Nonstop Bodies: How Dance Shaped New York City
$30.00 Add to cartA sweeping cultural history of the dancing that defined New York City
Throughout the twentieth century, in theaters, ballrooms, and nightclubs, dancers blazed trails of resistance and revolution. From
- Author: McDougall, Rennie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1419771124
- Language: English
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Cuando El Viento Hable: Novela Hist?rica. Finalista Premio Planeta 2025 / What the Wind Has to Tell: A Historical Novel
$19.95 Read moreUn pa?s en silencio. Un misterio que a?n respira.
Un drama familiar de posguerra.
Sof?a nace en el oto?o de 1939, tras una tragedia familiar, y crece rodeada de secretos en la Galicia rural de la posgue
- Author: Banzas, Ãngela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 6073938314
- Language: Spanish
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Beyond Repair: The Decline And Fall Of The Cia
$22.95 Add to cartCharles Faddis, co-author of Operation Hotel California, offers gritty, hair-raising stories about the CIA, which has devolved into a giant bureaucracy of ass-coverers and careerists – not the kind of… [more below]
- Author: Faddis, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 08 2009
- ISBN10: 1599218518
- Language: English
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Gunner: A Joseph Gunner Thriller
$27.95 Add to cartInspired by the true story of a secret mission taken during World War II, Gunner is the atmospheric, exciting start of a suspenseful new thriller series.
March 1941. Joseph Gunner is back on the stree- Series: A Joseph Gunner Thriller
- Author: Parks, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897101092
- Language: English
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The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family’s Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution
$29.95 Add to cartThe most extraordinary family you’ve never heard of.
Born to Chinese immigrant parents, the Moy siblings grew up in an America that questioned their citizenship and denied their equality. Sophisticate… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Charlotte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0520409558
- Language: English
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What We Tried to Bury Grows Here
$18.95 Add to cartA Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
A masterly crafted and haunting tale of survival, longing, and empathy, set during the Spanish Civil War, now in a new paperback edition. “Julian Zabalbeascoa i- Author: Zabalbeascoa, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1953387268
- Language: English
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Ike and Winston: World War, Cold War, and an Extraordinary Friendship
$40.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Jonathan W. Jordan comes a riveting portrait of friendship, politics, and power at the highest stakes: the extraordinary bond between Dwight Eisenhower and Winst… [more below]
- Author: Jordan, Jonathan W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0593473132
- Language: English
