20th Century
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Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
$39.99 Add to cartNever before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. Darkology, from Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes, meticulously unra
- Author: Barnes, Rhae Lynn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1631496344
- Language: English
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The Journal of H?l?ne Berr: A Young Jewish Woman’s Life in Occupied Paris
$17.99 Read more“At once the diary of a young Jewish girl under the German Occupation of Paris, a work of exceptional literary quality, and a powerful historical document” SIMONE WEIL
From April 1942 to March 1944, H?- Author: Berr, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1906694192
- Language: English
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An Infinite Sadness
$17.95 Add to cartIn a small village in the Swiss Alps, in the aftermath of World War II, particle physics and psychiatry grapple with a forever changed world.
Nicholas walks the wooded path between the sanitarium where
- Author: Xerxenesky, Antônio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1917260121
- Language: English
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Okinawa: A Decorated Marine’s Account of the Last Battle of World War II
$27.00 Add to cartPenguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.
Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion
- Author: Leckie, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0140173897
- Language: English
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The Town and the City
$19.99 Add to cart“It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go.”– Kerouac on The Town and the City. Kerouac’s debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 21 1970
- ISBN10: 0156907909
- Language: English
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To Repel Ghosts: The Remix
$24.00 Add to cartRevamped from its original “double album” version of 350 pages into this unique “remix,” To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
In spare, jazzlike- Author: Young, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27 2005
- ISBN10: 037571023X
- Language: English
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I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
$14.99 Add to cart“Steve Earle brings to his prose the same authenticity, poetic spirit, and cinematic energy he projects in his music. I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive is like a dream you can’t shake, offering b… [more below]
- Author: Earle, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0547754434
- Language: English
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To Chase the Glowing Hours: A Novel of Highclere and Egypt
$19.95 Add to cartIn November 1922, Lady Eve, the twenty-one-year-old daughter of the Earl of Carnarvon, embarks on an extraordinary journey from her opulent home of Highclere Castle to the Valley of the Kings in Egypt… [more below]
- Author: Kirkpatrick, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1646036271
- Language: English
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Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music
$14.95 Add to cartTough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music is the definitive history of how a city danced its pain away.
In Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music, music journalist Al Shipley draws from- Author: Shipley, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1917516061
- Language: English
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Great Society: A New History
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challeng
- Author: Shlaes, Amity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0061706434
- Language: English
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Paradiso 17
$29.00 Add to cartThe intimate, sweeping tale of one man’s restless search for home the world over, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope
All his life, exile has been- Author: Assadi, Hannah Lillith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0593804058
- Language: English
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Book of Forbidden Words
$27.99 Add to cartFrom bestselling author Louise Fein comes a new historical novel set in a world of banned books and censorship, in which an encrypted manuscript unleashes a chain of consequences across 400 years, per
- Author: Fein, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0063475626
- Language: English
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Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon
$34.00 Add to cartNobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison, investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious
In- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217287772
- Language: English
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Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America
$32.99 Add to cartIn 1902, Morris and Rose Michtom invented the Teddy Bear–bound by clothing scraps, stuffed with sawdust, and given button eyes with a sad, longing expression–in the back room of their Brooklyn candy
- Author: Kimmel, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1324105283
- Language: English
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The Last Titans: How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the World
$30.00 Add to cartA compelling dual biography of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle that shines new light on two of the greatest figures of the 20th century.
Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle were thrown tog- Author: Vinen, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1668064847
- Language: English
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Undefeated
$19.99 Add to cart“[Freeman is] an excellent storyteller.”
—Sports IllustratedThe 1972 Miami Dolphins, under the expert leadership of legendary coach Don Shula, remain to this day the only team in the National Football
- Author: Freeman, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0062009834
- Language: English
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The House of Hidden Letters
$30.00 Add to cart“A joy from start to finish.”—Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient
A beautiful and escapist novel full of heart, for fans of Elin Hilderbrand and readers who l- Author: Broom, Izzy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217190386
- Language: English
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The Shock of the Light
$30.00 Add to cartA sweeping novel of siblings, steeped in love, heart-rending loss, and sacrifice, the story of twins who meet shockingly different fates, but whose bond will last forever
Twins Tessa and Theo are root- Author: Inglis Hall, Lori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0593834259
- Language: English
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Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway
$39.95 Add to cartThe multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fortieth anniversary of Meyers’s magisterial biography of Hemingway. This approach ha… [more below]
- Author: Meyers, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185094
- Language: English
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You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
$24.00 Add to cartA stunning, collectible edition of Howard Zinn’s landmark memoir that chronicles his lifelong commitment to social justice and steadfast belief that ordinary people can change history
A Beacon Classic- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0807024112
- Language: English
