Chronological Period/1900-1949
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
$20.00 Add to cartThis groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow o
- Author: Blackmon, Douglas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0385722702
- Language: English
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Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova
$17.99 Add to cart“Spare, poetic words sit as lightly as snowflakes.”–Wall Street Journal
“An enchanting glimpse of a dancer whose name has come to be synonymous with her most famous role.”–School Library Journal, sta… [more below]- Author: Snyder, Laurel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: August 18 2015
- ISBN10: 1452118906
- Language: English
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Across the Border 4
$9.99 Add to cartLife on the Rush farm in South Dakota is not easy. Even so, over the past four years, Ethan Cooper and his siblings have grown to feel they belong with their adoptive family.
Then Chad Rush makes an- Series: Beyond the Orphan Train #4
- Author: Richardson, Arleta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0781413583
- Language: English
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Cubism
$20.00 Read morePioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With inspiration from African and Native American art and sculpture, its practitio
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Ganteführer-Trier, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 3836505398
- Language: English
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
$15.99 Add to cartIn a riveting biography that reads like a crime novel, Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti uncovers the true story of Mary Mallon, a.k.a. Typhoid Mary, one of the most m
- Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0063295962
- Language: English
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I Capture the Castle
$19.00 Add to cartOne of the 20th century’s most beloved novels is still winning hearts, Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle!
“This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I’ve ever met.” — J.K. Rowling, author- Author: Smith, Dodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0312201656
- Language: English
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Former People
$36.00 Add to cartThe riveting and harrowing story of the Russian nobility caught in the upheaval of the Revolution
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Kansas City Star an- Author: Smith, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037794
- Language: English
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Adoniram Judson: Bound for Burma
$11.99 Read moreAs America’s first foreign missionary, Adoniram Judson spent thirty-eight years working in Burma, then one of the most hostile countries on earth. Judson was ignored, mocked, beaten, and tortured, yet… [more below]
- Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 05 2001
- ISBN10: 1576581616
- Language: English
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A Man of the Beatitudes: Pier Giorgio Frassati
$17.95 Add to cartA beguiling and moving biography of Pier Giorgio Frassati, a handsome, athletic and fun-loving young man from a rich, aristocratic Italian family in the 1920’s who was recently beatified by Pope John … [more below]
- Author: Frassati, Luciana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: June 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0898708613
- Language: English
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Where the Red Fern Grows
$20.00 Read moreA young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart’s desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.
- Author: Rawls, Wilson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1432850326
- Language: English
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
$18.99 Add to cartIn this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and
- Author: Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346105
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
$19.99 Read moreBestselling author-illustrator Marissa Moss tells the gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission
As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century,
- Author: Moss, Marissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1419758535
- Language: English
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Bauhaus. Updated Edition
$93.33 Add to cartIn a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusi
- Author: Droste, Magdalena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 28 2018
- ISBN10: 3836572826
- Language: English
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Across the River and Into the Trees
$18.00 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber!
A poignant tale of a revitalizing love that is found too late–the fleeting connection between an Italian countess and an injured American co- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 12 1996
- ISBN10: 0684825538
- Language: English
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
$15.99 Add to cartIn a riveting biography that reads like a crime novel, Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti uncovers the true story of Mary Mallon, a.k.a. Typhoid Mary, one of the most m
- Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0063295962
- Language: English
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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
$42.99 Add to cartOne Palestine, Complete explores the tumultuous period before the creation of the state of Israel. This was the time of the British Mandate, when Britain’s promise to both Jews and Arabs that they wou
- Author: Segev, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0805065873
- Language: English
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Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Harry Houdini
$7.99 Read moreChoose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Harry Houdini by Katherine Factor puts YOU in the shoes of America’s first famous magician, Harry Houdini, also known as “The King of Cuffs.” 9-12 year old readers wil… [more below]
- Author: Factor, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1937133362
- Language: English
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Stepping on the Cracks
$9.99 Add to cartIn 1944, when her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret changes her mind about the school bully, Gordy, after she discovers he is hiding his own brother, a deserter.
A… [more below]
- Author: Hahn, Mary Downing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547076606
- Language: English
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Gandhi an Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
$20.00 Add to cartMohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, wh… [more below]
- Author: Gandhi, Mohandas K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0807059099
- Language: English
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The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just
$19.99 Add to cart“A must-purchase picture book biography of a figure sure to inspire awe and admiration among readers.”–School Library Journal (starred review)
Extraordinary illustrations and lyrical text present p
- Author: Mangal, Mélina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1512483753
- Language: English
