Chronological Period/1900-1949
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Those Who Save Us
$18.99 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An estranged mother and daughter reunite to confront their family’s role in World War II in this harrowing, unforgettable novel about lost love and inherited shame.For fifty
- Author: Blum, Jenna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 482
- Publish Date: May 02, 2005
- ISBN10: 0156031663
- Language: English
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
$23.99 Add to cartDrawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of
- Author: Dower, John W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: June 17 2000
- ISBN10: 393320278
- Language: English
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The Plum Tree: An Emotional and Heartbreaking Novel of Ww2 Germany and the Holocaust
$18.95 Add to cart“A touching story of heroism and loss, a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of love to transcend the most unthinkable circumstances.”
–Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling … [more below]- Author: Wiseman, Ellen Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 149673002X
- Language: English
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Why I Write
$15.00 Add to cartA selection of George Orwell’s politically charged essays on language and writing that give context to his dystopian classic, 1984
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have tran- Series: Great Ideas
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036351
- Language: English
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The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
$26.99 Add to cart“Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary.”–The Christian Science Monitor
The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andr- Author: Morris, Charles R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0805081348
- Language: English
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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
$19.00 Add to cartTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE TELEVISION DRAMA Z: THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING
With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Fowler’s New York Times bestseller Z brings us Zelda’s irresistible story- Author: Fowler, Therese Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1250028663
- Language: English
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A Girl of the Limberlost
$12.99 Add to cartRejected by her embittered mother and scorned by her classmates, Elnora Comstock seeks consolation in nature amid the wilds of eastern Indiana’s Limberlost Swamp. Teeming with danger as well as beauty… [more below]
- Series: Dover Children’s Evergreen Classics
- Author: Stratton-Porter, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0486457508
- Language: English
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Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography
$19.00 Read moreDrawing on the unique historical sites, archives, expertise, and unquestioned authority of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, New York Times bestselling authors Sid Jacobson and Ernie Col? have create
- Author: Jacobson, Sid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0809026856
- Language: English
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Living My Life
$20.00 Add to cartAnarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous–and notorious–woman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-vo
- Author: Goldman, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0142437859
- Language: English
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The Moffats
$9.99 Read moreMeet the Moffats. There is Sylvie, the oldest, the cleverest, and-most days at least-the responsible one; Joey, who though only twelve is the man of the house…sometimes; Janey, who has a terrific up
- Series: Moffats (Paperback)
- Author: Estes, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01, 2001
- ISBN10: 0152025413
- Language: English
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The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
$24.00 Read moreThe first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 “Valuable . . . offers many le- Author: Mulder, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0300270488
- Language: English
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Linnea in Monet’s Garden
$16.99 Read more25th Anniversary Edition
Linnea has been in Paris. And she has visited the painter Claude Monet’s garden! She even stood on the same little Japanese bridge that Monet painted so often in his pictures.
- Author: Björk, Christina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1402277296
- Language: English
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A Perfect Fit: How Lena “Lane” Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion
$19.99 Add to cartDiscover how the Lane Bryant clothing brand changed the way we buy clothes forever by celebrating bodies of all shapes and sizes in this inclusive picture book biography of a Lithuanian immigrant with… [more below]
- Author: Rockliff, Mara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 035812543X
- Language: English
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Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
$11.95 Add to cartThe true story of Chiune Sugihara, the “Japanese Schindler,” who, with his family’s encouragement, saved thousands of Jews in Lithuania during World War II.
As a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in the 1
- Series: Rise and Shine
- Author: Mochizuki, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1584301570
- Language: English
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Murdering McKinley
$20.00 Add to cartWhen President William McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign a
- Author: Rauchway, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 18 2004
- ISBN10: 0809016389
- Language: English
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The Power of the Dog
$16.99 Add to cartNow an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage’s acclaimed Western is “a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place” (Boston G… [more below]
- Author: Savage, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0316610895
- Language: English
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Coming Home
$26.00 Add to cartTeeming with marvelous, memorable characters in a novel that is a true masterpiece, Rosamunde Pilcher’s Coming Home–the basis for the TV miniseries of the same name–is a book to be savored, reread,
- Author: Pilcher, Rosamunde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1250106443
- Language: English
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In Open Spaces
$17.99 Add to cartSet in the vast and unforgiving prairie of eastern Montana from 1916 to 1946, In Open Spaces is the compelling story of the Arbuckle brothers: GeorgeA rising baseball star who mysteriously drowns in t… [more below]
- Author: Rowland, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0060084340
- Language: English
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Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939
$18.99 Add to cartThey ate garlic and didn’t always bathe; they listened to Wagner and worshiped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational schools, explored homosexuality and free love, vegetarianism and Pos
- Author: Nicholson, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0060548460
- Language: English
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To Hell and Back
$18.99 Add to cartThe classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in print in a trade paperback. Originally published in 1949, To Hell and Back was a smash bestseller for
- Author: Murphy, Audie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0805070869
- Language: English
