Chronological Period/1900-1919
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The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
$35.00 Add to cartThe Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical aren
- Author: Lloyd, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1631497944
- Language: English
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Hard Country
$24.00 Add to cartA richly authentic epic adventure of rough-hewn men and courageous women, set in the hard country of the American Southwest frontier.
Hard Country is a rare and extraordinary story of one family’s st- Series: American West Trilogy #1
- Author: McGarrity, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 451417143
- Language: English
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The Bonanza King: John MacKay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West
$21.00 Add to cart“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of… [more below]
- Author: Crouch, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1501108204
- Language: English
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The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910
$38.00 Add to cartAn expansive exploration of The Gilded Age in New York City, from of the extravagant lifestyles and magnificent mansions of the ultra-rich to the daily doings of the wretchedly poor who lived in the s
- Author: Crain, Esther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0316353663
- Language: English
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Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army
$18.99 Read moreIn the autumn of 1912, the football team from Carlisle Indian Industrial School took the field at the U.S. Military Academy, home to the bigger, stronger, and better-equipped West Points Cadets. Sport… [more below]
- Series: Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books
- Author: Coulson, Art
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 154350406X
- Language: English
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The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.
FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R)… [more below]- Author: Fox, Margalit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1984853856
- Language: English
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The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
$18.99 Add to cart“Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism.”
–David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of… [more below]- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0358118220
- Language: English
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Hurry Up, Houdini!
$6.99 Add to cartThe #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!
Abracadabra! Jack and Annie are on a mission for Merlin the magician. T- Series: Magic Tree House (R) Merlin Mission #22
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0307980480
- Language: English
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Stay Where You Are and Then Leave
$13.99 Add to cartThe next work of historical fiction from the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne’s Stay Where You Are and Then Leave is a touching look at the effects war has on a family.
The day the- Author: Boyne, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062861
- Language: English
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The Star That Always Stays
$17.99 Read moreWhen bright and spirited Norvia moves from the country to the city, she has to live by one new rule: Never let anyone know you’re Ojibwe.
Growing up on Beaver Island, Grand-p?e told Norvia stories–st- Author: Johnson, Anna Rose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0823450406
- Language: English
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The Invincible Miss Cust
$16.99 Add to cartSheReads Best Historical Fiction of 2022 Finalist!
“Inspiring, heartwarming, and ultimately triumphant.” –Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends
“What a remarkab
- Author: Haw, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1728257700
- Language: English
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Whisper in the Tempest: A Novel of the Great War
$22.99 Add to cartDecember, 1917: When an urgent matter forces Ginger and Noah Benson to sail from Malta on the HMT Aragon, the unthinkable strikes: the Aragon is torpedoed-and Ginger and Noah are separated in the chao
- Author: McCormack, Annabelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986529479
- Language: English
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All about Madam C. J. Walker
$7.99 Add to cartMadam C. J. Walker was a self-made millionaire who was beloved within her community for her philanthropy, and respected as a first rate business person. She was America’s first female self-made millio… [more below]
- Series: All about
- Author: Bundles, A’Lelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1681570939
- Language: English
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The Sinking of the Titanic
$8.99 Add to cartTells the story of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. Written in graphic-novel format.
- Series: Graphic History
- Author: Doeden, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0736852476
- Language: English
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The Wolf Wilder
$19.99 Add to cartA girl and the wolves who love her embark on a rescue mission through Russian wilderness in this lyrical tale from the author of the acclaimed Rooftoppers and Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms.
Feo’s life- Author: Rundell, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1481419420
- Language: English
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The Old Leather Man: Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York Legend
$35.00 Read moreFascinating documentation of a mysterious figure
In 1883, wearing a sixty-pound suit sewn from leather boot-tops, a wanderer known only as the Leather Man began to walk a 365 mile loop between the Conn
- Series: Garnet Books
- Author: DeLuca, Dan W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0819568627
- Language: English
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The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBy the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known.
This Very Short Introduction provides a concise- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Howard, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0199205590
- Language: English
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Before She Was Harriet
$8.99 Add to cartAn evocative poem and stunning watercolors come together to honor an American heroine in a Coretta Scott King Honor and Christopher Award-winning picture book.
We know her today as Harriet Tubman, bu- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0823444295
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
$14.95 Add to cartWilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered th… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Books
- Author: Owen, Wilfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 17 1965
- ISBN10: 0811201325
- Language: English
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire
$18.95 Add to cartIn this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918–which inspired events that forever changed the European continent–here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and ris… [more below]
- Author: Hoyer, Katja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362975
- Language: English
