Chronological Period/1900-1919
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November’s Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
$16.95 Add to cartOn Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings be
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 081668720X
- Language: English
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Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
$8.99 Read moreElizabeth Cady Stanton stood up and fought for what she believed in. From an early age, she knew that women were not given rights equal to men. But rather than accept her lesser status, Elizabeth went
- Author: Stone, Tanya Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0312602367
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
$9.99 Read moreBooker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation’s most prominent Black educator and first presiden… [more below]
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Washington, Booker T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1454949996
- Language: English
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Lucy Fights the Flames: A Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Survival Story
$27.99 Read moreIn 1911, fourteen-year-old Lucy Morelli lives with her parents, older brother, and several youngers siblings in a crowded apartment in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Lucy dreams … [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Gilbert, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496583868
- Language: English
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For Spacious Skies: Katharine Lee Bates and the Inspiration for America the Beautiful
$16.99 Read moreA Mighty Girl’s 2020 Books of the Year
The true story of the unconventional woman and her enduring song about the spirit of America. Katharine Lee Bates first wrote the lines to “America the Beautiful- Series: She Made History
- Author: Churnin, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0807525308
- Language: English
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The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now (the Deadliest #2, Scholastic Focus): Volume 2
$25.99 Read morePerfect for fans of I Survived and the Who Was series! Packed with graphics, photos, and facts for curious minds, this is a gripping look at America’s deadliest hurricanes.
As a hurricane gathered in t
- Series: The Deadliest
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1338360175
- Language: English
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The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now (the Deadliest #2, Scholastic Focus): Volume 2
$8.99 Read morePerfect for fans of I Survived and the Who Was series! Packed with graphics, photos, and facts for curious minds, this is a gripping look at America’s deadliest hurricane.
As a hurricane gathered in th
- Series: The Deadliest
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1338360191
- Language: English
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Nick
$16.99 Add to cartA critically acclaimed novelist pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this “masterful” look into his life before Gatsby (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empi
- Author: Smith, Michael Farris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 031652977X
- Language: English
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The Doll Shop Downstairs
$7.99 Read moreNine year old Anna and her sisters like helping out in their parents’ doll repair shop, because once their chores are done, the fun can begin. The girls are allowed to play carefully with the dolls un… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, Yona Zeldis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0142416916
- Language: English
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Under Western Eyes
$11.95 Add to cartUnder Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such as the defensibility of terrori… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552371
- Language: English
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Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers’ War 1914-18
$57.43 Read moreThe result of over twenty-five years of research, Beneath Flanders Fields reveals how this intense underground battle was fought and won. The authors give the first full account of mine warfare in Wor… [more below]
- Author: Barton, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0773543015
- Language: English
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Klimt and His Cat
$20.00 Read moreFollow me into Gustav’s studio — it is alive with color Look at the paintbrushes, the reds and blues and colorful hues that spill onto the table. Smell the scent of paint, of oil, of canvas. . .Katz… [more below]
- Series: Incredible Lives for Young Readers
- Author: Capatti, Berenice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 22 2004
- ISBN10: 0802852823
- Language: English
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Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
$30.00 Read moreOn the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure
A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues t- Author: Smith, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1250141265
- Language: English
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A War Transformed: Wwi on the Doggerland Front: A Wargame
$35.00 Read moreThe Great War meets the horrors of forgotten folklore in this occult skirmish wargame.
1916: A World Transformed. As the Great War raged, the Moon fell from its orbit. Seas shifted, uncovering new land- Author: Silburn-Slater, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1472856252
- Language: English
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Daisy and the Deadly Flu: A 1918 Influenza Survival Story
$27.99 Read moreIn 1918, fourteen-year-old Daisy’s family has fallen on hard times. Her sister Elsie’s fiance was recently deployed to fight in World War I, and her father’s newspaper was forced to shut down for crit… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Gilbert, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 149658712X
- Language: English
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Madam C. J. Walker Builds a Business
$6.99 Read moreFollow Sarah Breedlove’s journey from the first child in her family born free to a woman with a thriving hair care business, posed to become America’s first self-made millionaire.
- Series: A Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Chapter Book
- Author: Rebel Girls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1953424007
- Language: English
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The Last Grand Duchess: A Novel of Olga Romanov, Imperial Russia, and Revolution
$16.99 Read more“Powerful and haunting . . . an intimate and unforgettable tale that transports the reader to the heart of Imperial Russia.” –Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Beautiful G… [more below]
- Author: Turnbull, Bryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0778311708
- Language: English
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Chéri and the End of Chéri
$26.95 Read moreChéri and its sequel, The End of Chéri, mark Colette’s finest achievements in their brilliant, subtle, and frank investigations of love and power. Set in the Parisian demimonde in the last days of
- Author: Colette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324006374
- Language: English
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. – With a new Afterword – “Desert Queen…plucks Gertrude … [more below]
- Author: Wallach, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400096197
- Language: English
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Risked
$8.99 Read moreJonah and Katherine journey to 1918 with the Romanov children in the sixth book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series, which Kirkus Reviews calls “plenty of fun and great for history te… [more below]
- Series: Missing #6
- Author: Haddix, Margaret Peterson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1416989854
- Language: English
