20th Century
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An Exaltation of Parks: John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s Crusade to Save America’s Wonderlands
$29.95 Add to cartUncovering the partnership that saved America’s natural treasures
America’s national parks are facing unprecedented challenges. With visitation pressures mounting and the National Park Service strugg- Author: Kemp, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1647692245
- Language: English
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Consider the Consequences
$18.95 Add to cartYou decide what the characters do–and who they end up with–in this interactive 1930s romantic time capsule that paved the way for Choose Your Own Adventure!
43 HAPPILY (N)EVER AFTERS: Play as a part- Author: Webster, Doris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1805332627
- Language: English
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Our Narrow Hiding Places
$18.99 Add to cartAn elderly woman recounts her Dutch family’s survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations.
Eighty-year-old Mieke Ge
- Author: Jansma, Kristopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0063352907
- Language: English
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Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial
$28.00 Read more“A vivid reconstruction of the actions of the wartime allies and the Nazi elite at Nuremberg. Persico easily carries us into a deeper understanding of the trials.”–New York Newsday
The Nuremberg tria- Author: Persico, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 014016622X
- Language: English
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Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA
$35.00 Add to cartWhen eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy da
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Farrell, Amy Erdman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 146968683X
- Language: English
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There Was a Time for Such a Word
$28.00 Add to cartFor fans of The Reader and inspired by historical events in 1940s Italy, a poignant and hopeful novel in which a young, illiterate herdsman learns to read with the help of his two friends– rewriting
- Author: Solla, Gianni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0063336162
- Language: English
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Sweet Victory: How the Berlin Airlift Divided East and West
$29.95 Add to cartThe fascinating story of how a forgotten group of airmen–who had spent World War II dropping Allied bombs on Berlin–risked their lives in 1948-49 dropping chocolate bars from the sky.
After Hitler’s- Author: Pearson, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368582
- Language: English
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Rednecks
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the Southern Book Prize for Fiction
An NPR Best Book of 2024
An Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Southern Book of 2024
Co-winner of the 2024 Weatherford Award in Fiction
Audie Award for Best Fi- Author: Brown, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1250329353
- Language: English
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Mamaleh: A Legacy of Loss and Love
$19.95 Add to cartIn Mamaleh: A Legacy of Loss and Love, Elaine Culbertson has created a new kind of Holocaust survivor story. It is a memoir that combines both her mother, Dora Freilich’s, personal recollections of he
- Author: Culbertson, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 26 2025
- ISBN10: 195705722X
- Language: English
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Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
$18.99 Add to cart“Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America’s pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race of unlikely hero
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0063371413
- Language: English
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Lo Que Calla Tu Mirada/ What Your Eyes Are Hiding
$22.95 Add to cartUn gran amor prohibido, drama y secretos en el Bilbao de principios del siglo XX.
«Una deliciosa y apasionante historia que seduce al lector . Celia Santos Bilbao, 1914. Amelia Eguren, hija de u- Author: Peña Bilbao, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 8466681140
- Language: Spanish
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The 1960s Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See a Turbulent Decade
$22.95 Add to cartThe 1960s had it all: cultural transformation, social upheaval, political unrest, technological leaps, and more. But until now, it’s never been brought to vivid life in such extraordinarily informativ… [more below]
- Series: Maps for Curious Minds
- Author: Kerr, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030808
- Language: English
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A Farewell to Arms: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$18.00 Add to cartHemingway’s beloved novel of doomed love during wartime, now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, with a new foreword by Abraham Verghese, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of Th… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0143138839
- Language: English
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Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right
$16.99 Add to cartWhat really gave rise to the Religious Right?
There is a commonly accepted story about the rise of the Religious Right in the United States. It goes like this: with righteous fury, American evangelic- Author: Balmer, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 141
- Publish Date: January 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0802885640
- Language: English
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Letters to Kafka
$21.99 Add to cartA sweeping, tragic romance and feminist adventure about translator and resistance fighter Milena Jesensk?’s torrid love affair with Franz Kafka.
In 1919, Milena Jesensk?, a clever and spirited twenty-
- Author: Estima, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1487013310
- Language: English
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The Midwife of Berlin
$17.99 Add to cartA gripping WWII story of one woman’s determination to find her baby in the gruesome aftermath of surviving Auschwitz, perfect for readers of The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz.
Auschwitz, 1943: I str- Author: Stuart, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1538772531
- Language: English
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The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care
$19.95 Add to cart“A perfectly pitched medical mystery that will captivate you from page one.”–Wes Ely, MD, MPH, author of Every Deep-Drawn Breath, winner of the 2022 Christopher Award for Literature.
A suspenseful, a- Author: Wunsch, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1778402135
- Language: English
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Folded Corners
$15.99 Add to cartKnocknashee, County Kerry, Ireland
1941
For twenty-one-year-old Grace Fitzgerald, life is finally looking bright. Orphaned as a child and later struck down by polio, she then endured years of cold indif
- Author: Grainger, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1917732155
- Language: English
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The Distance: Dreams and Despair
$19.99 Add to cartThe Distance tells the story of two Swiss immigrants, Thomas and Wilbert, who arrive in British Columbia’s Kootenay region in the early 1900s, lured by promises of adventure and prosperity. Their drea… [more below]
- Author: Pollard, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1038327970
- Language: English
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The Dark of the Moon
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Dressmaker’s Gift. She’s spent a lifetime searching for him. Is this her last chance to find the truth?
Philly Delaney risked everything during the war. From flying p
- Author: Valpy, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1662516878
- Language: English
