20th Century
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A Librarian’s War: The Man Who Fought World War II with Books and Brought the Joy of Reading to Millions
$34.99 Read moreThe untold story of Ray Trautman, the Greatest Generation’s librarian, who made reading central to the Allied fight in World War II and transformed the role of books in American life.
Though unknown t- Author: Manning, Molly Guptill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 29 2026
- ISBN10: 0197861245
- Language: English
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The City Without Jews: Life and Death in Nazi Vienna
$37.00 Read moreFrom an award-winning historian, the gripping, singular story of the destruction of Jewish Vienna as seen through the letters and diaries of an extraordinary woman who witnessed it all.
In 1922, Hugo- Author: Smith, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 29 2026
- ISBN10: 0374606552
- Language: English
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Every Time a Bell Rings: The Legacy of It’s a Wonderful Life, America’s Most Beloved Holiday Film
$32.00 Read moreA fond and nostalgic cultural history of It’s a Wonderful Life, celebrating the beloved holiday film’s actors and creators, its unexpected journey from public domain to holiday classic, and what its e… [more below]
- Author: Theisen, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 29 2026
- ISBN10: 133500064X
- Language: English
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An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America
$30.00 Read moreA revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregation in America only to be forgotten by histo
- Author: Merritt, Keri Leigh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 29 2026
- ISBN10: 1250337933
- Language: English
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Dodge City
$28.00 Read moreFrom bestselling author Patrick deWitt comes Dodge City, a rollicking novel about a young man on an amphetamine-fueled cross-country road trip, fleeing the draft for the safe haven of Canada.
It’s 1967
- Author: DeWitt, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 29 2026
- ISBN10: 0063438119
- Language: English
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The Hobo: A History of America’s First Climate Migrants
$29.95 Add to cartA panoramic history of America’s first climate migrants
From the mid-nineteenth century through the dust bowl years of the Great Depression, a new kind of migrant worker became a familiar sight in com- Author: Suits, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0691284660
- Language: English
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Daughters of Naples
$19.99 Read moreDiana Giovinazzo returns to the historical genre in a lush and thrilling novel, perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah and Elena Ferrante.
Set in Naples, Italy, during World War II, three sisters must sur- Author: Giovinazzo, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798892425995
- Language: English
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A Resistance of Witches
$20.00 Add to cartRESISTANCE IS MAGIC
“War II meets A Discovery of Witches…I raced through this one.” –Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Briar Club As World War II rages around her, a witch abando- Author: Ryan, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0593831985
- Language: English
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Matters of Chance
$17.99 Add to cartMatters of Chance is a glorious, aptivating novel about Morgan and Maude Shurtliff, who fall in love and marry in the years before World WarII. Unable to have children of their own, Morgan and Maude a… [more below]
- Author: Haien, Jeannette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 26 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929529
- Language: English
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The Wagon Box Fight: An Episode of Red Cloud’s War
$19.99 Add to cartOne of the most dramatic battles of the Indian Wars is described in a revised edition with new material including official army reports and recent archaeological evidence.
- Author: Keenan, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 02 2005
- ISBN10: 1882810872
- Language: English
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Mother of Sorrows
$17.95 Read moreA masterful psychological mystery novel about the unbearable weight of maternal love, and the silences that shape a nation. In the quiet aftermath of Split’s tourist season, the city is shaken by the … [more below]
- Author: Pavicic, Jurica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1916725317
- Language: English
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What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933
$22.99 Add to cartThe Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, What I Saw introdu… [more below]
- Author: Roth, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 227
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325822
- Language: English
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Where the Sky Begins
$29.99 Read moreIn 1929, twenty daredevil women take to the skies in the most dangerous race of their lives.
Florence “Pancho” Barnes–heiress, rebel, and the most colorful pilot in America–can outfly, outswear, and
- Author: Wine, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 28 2026
- ISBN10: 9798228506497
- Language: English
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Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
$20.00 Add to cartNamed one of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2025 The riveting hidden history of Claire McCardell, the most influential fashion designer you’ve never heard of. Claire McCardell forever chang… [more below]
- Author: Dickinson, Elizabeth Evitts
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1668045249
- Language: English
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The Distance Between Our Names: The Untold History of America’s War on Japanese Immigrants
$30.00 Read moreA gripping historical account about the harrowing struggles of Japanese immigrants in the US during the years leading to World War II.
In 1872, a new Japanese government’s first diplomatic delegation- Author: Richter, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1668031183
- Language: English
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Farther Afield
$16.99 Add to cartOpen the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village.
The end of a school year often brings unmitigated rapture for schoolteachers, and so it should for Miss Read, schoolmistress in the charm- Series: Fairacre
- Author: Read
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 07 2007
- ISBN10: 061888436X
- Language: English
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Daughters of Naples
$29.99 Read moreDiana Giovinazzo returns to the historical genre in a lush and thrilling novel, perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah and Elena Ferrante.
Set in Naples, Italy, during World War II, three sisters must sur- Author: Giovinazzo, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798892425988
- Language: English
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The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian
$35.00 Read moreAn intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.
Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth cen- Author: Chabal, Emile
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 18 2026
- ISBN10: 0674737768
- Language: English
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Death Trip: Iggy and the Stooges, 1972-74
$27.50 Read moreThe definitive musical history of the influential Raw Power era of Iggy and the Stooges.
Raw Power by Iggy and the Stooges is arguably the most aggressive, dynamic album in rock history, and inarguabl- Author: Begnal, Michael S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1836391897
- Language: English
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American Nightmare
$29.00 Read moreIn this haunting historical novel, a light-skinned Black man goes undercover to investigate lynchings in the Jim Crow South, only to be confronted by the very evil that has pursued him since childhood… [more below]
- Author: McWilliams, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 15 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217087204
- Language: English
