Chronological Period/1900-1949
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Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb
$28.95 Add to cart- Author: Groueff, Stephane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: June 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0595092381
- Language: English
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A Good Night for Ghosts
$6.99 Add to cartMake story time a little spookier with the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time! Every visit to the magic tree house leads to a time-travel adventure!
Jack and Annie are on a mission to fin- Series: Magic Tree House (R) Merlin Mission #14
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0375856498
- Language: English
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The Red Coast: Radicalism and Anti-Radicalism in Southwest Washington
$24.95 Read moreThe Red Coast is a lively and readable informal history of the labor, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwest Washington State from the late nineteenth centu… [more below]
- Author: Goings, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 20 2019
- ISBN10: 087071967X
- Language: English
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Vienna Prelude
$18.99 Add to cartECPA Gold Medallion Award winner
Opening in 1936, the Zion Covenant series tells the courageous and compelling stories of those who risk everything to stand against the growing tide of Nazi terrorism… [more below]
- Series: Zion Covenant #1
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1414301073
- Language: English
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A Fable
$16.95 Read moreThis novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0307946770
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet
$6.95 Read moreIn 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), replied to th… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 08 2002
- ISBN10: 0486422453
- Language: English
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Who Was Alexander Graham Bell?
$6.99 Add to cartDid you know that Bell’s amazing invention–the telephone–stemmed from his work on teaching the deaf? Both his mother and wife were deaf. Or, did you know that in later years he refused to have a tel… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Bader, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 31 2013
- ISBN10: 0448464608
- Language: English
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The Great Houdini: World Famous Magician & Escape Artist
$5.99 Add to cartHarry Houdini was a great escape artist, but perhaps his greatest trick was becoming the famous magician that we have come to know. As a child, Houdini worked hard–and even quit school–to help suppo… [more below]
- Series: Step Into Reading
- Author: Kulling, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0679885730
- Language: English
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Henri Matisse
$9.95 Read moreHenri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Joan Mir and Andy Warhol each significantly shaped the development of art in the twentieth century. These Modern masters are the subjects of four small books, the first … [more below]
- Author: Matisse, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0870707248
- Language: English
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Lucy Maud Montgomery: Creator of Anne of Green Gables
$4.99 Read more- Series: I Can Read!: Level 1
- Author: Howden, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1443460265
- Language: English
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Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa
$24.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1974, and edited by John Henrik Clarke with the aid of Amy Jacques Garvey, this is a superbly edited collection of writings reflecting the life and work of Marcus Garvey. Included a… [more below]
- Author: Clarke, John Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 525
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 1574780476
- Language: English
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The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto – 75th Anniversary Edition
$16.99 Read moreThe first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw Ghetto
Mary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to- Author: Berg, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1786073404
- 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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When Everybody Wore a Hat
$9.99 Read moreThis is the story of when I was a boy, almost 100 years ago, when fire engines were pulled by horses, boys did not play with girls, kids went to libraries for books, there was no TV, you could see a m
- Series: Rise and Shine
- Author: Steig, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0060097027
- Language: English
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Trotsky: A Biography
$30.00 Add to cartRobert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.
Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing an- Author: Service, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: October 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0674062256
- Language: English
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A Year Down Yonder
$18.99 Read moreWinner of the Newbery Medal
“Peck charms readers once again with this entertaining sequel to A Long Way from Chicago“–School Library Journal (starred review) It was within the pages of Richard Peck‘s- Author: Peck, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0803725183
- 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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George Washington Carver
$4.99 Add to cartTake a bite into the fascinating history of peanut butter and the man who invented it. Through leveled text and engaging photos, kids meet George Washington Carver and learn about his important work w… [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Jazynka, Kitson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1426322852
- Language: English
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The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
$30.00 Read moreHow six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II
“A damning indictment. . . . The parallels with today’s right-wing media, on both sides of the Atlantic, are u- Author: Olmsted, Kathryn S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0300256426
- Language: English
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The Bottoms
$16.95 Read moreThis Edgar Award winner is “equal parts morality tale and page-turning thriller” (Denver Post)–classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and most affecting form, with echoes of William Fa… [more below]
- Author: Lansdale, Joe R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0307475263
- Language: English
