Chronological Period/1900-1949
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John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman
$40.00 Read moreTHE DEFINITIVE SINGLE-VOLUME BIOGRAPHY Robert Skidelsky’s three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman’s life. Here, S… [more below]
- Author: Skidelsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036157
- Language: English
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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
$19.00 Add to cart#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s
In this “overpowering and beautiful nov- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulks, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 02 1997
- ISBN10: 0679776818
- Language: English
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The Speakeasies of 1932: Over 400 Drawings, Paintings & Photos
$32.95 Read moreIntroduction by Pete Hamill. When Manhattan joints were hung out to dry, the Booze-oizie sniveled, then pirouetted on their stools to find reasonably palatable Speakeasy facsimiles. These Prohibition … [more below]
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Hirschfeld, Al
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1557835187
- Language: English
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920-26 (Loa #353)
$35.00 Read moreLibrary of America’s authoritative Fitzgerald edition continues with his greatest masterpiece and best story collection of stories in newly edited texts
This long-awaited second volume of Library of A- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 756
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537148
- Language: English
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The Private Journals of Edvard Munch: We Are Flames Which Pour Out of the Earth
$29.95 Read moreScandinavia’s most famous painter, the Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863-1944), is probably best known for his painting The Scream, a universally recognized icon of terror and despair. (A version was stole… [more below]
- Author: Munch, Edvard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: July 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0299198146
- Language: English
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Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life
$17.95 Read moreA vibrant, deeply human portrait of a woman dedicated to fierce protest against the tyranny of institutions over individuals, by the celebrated author
Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Gornick, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 030019823X
- Language: English
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Virginia Woolf
$26.00 Read more“A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
While Virginia Woolf–one of our century’s most brilliant and- Author: Lee, Hermione
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: October 05 1999
- ISBN10: 0375701362
- Language: English
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Mahatma Gandhi
$8.99 Read moreIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Mohandas Gandhi, the father of India.
As a young teenager in India,- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #25
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0711284288
- Language: English
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Corelli’s Mandolin
$18.00 Read moreThe acclaimed story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history: “An exuberant mixture of history and romance, written with a wit that is incandescent” (Los Angeles… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: de Bernieres, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 29 1995
- ISBN10: 067976397X
- Language: English
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The House That Jane Built: A Story about Jane Addams
$19.99 Read moreThis is the story of Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, who transformed a poor neighborhood in Chicago by opening up her house as a community center.
Ever since s- Author: Stone, Tanya Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0805090495
- Language: English
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Mind Over Muscle: Writings from the Founder of Judo
$19.95 Read moreIn 1882 Jigoro Kano (1860-1938) founded Kodokan Judo at Eishoji Temple in Tokyo. It was the culmination of a lifelong devotion to the jujutsu of the past, which he reorganized while taking great care … [more below]
- Author: Kano, Jigoro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1568364970
- Language: English
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It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
$11.95 Read moreThe inspiring biography of self-taught (outsider) artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban lif
- Author: Tate, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1643790552
- Language: English
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The Little Book: Story Reader for a Free Ukraine
$24.95 Read moreThe Little Book was originally published in 1940 and made a vital contribution to the curriculum for Canadian-Ukrainian children in prairie schools. Besides containing alphabet letters and gorgeous il
- Author: Matwuczuk, Mykola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1990735045
- Language: English
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A Star Called Henry
$24.00 Add to cartRoddy Doyle’s acclaimed novel about an intrepid Irishman’s years of reckless heroism and adventure – “An extraordinarily entertaining epic.” (The Washington Post)
Born at the beginning of the twentiet- Series: Last Roundup #1
- Author: Doyle, Roddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0143034618
- Language: English
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Munich Signature
$18.99 Read moreOpening 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 that is sweeping through central … [more below]
- Series: Zion Covenant #3
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 141430109X
- Language: English
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Thomas Edison
$5.99 Read moreLearn all about Thomas Edison, one of the most important figures in American history, in this colorful, inviting, and entertaining biography. This carefully leveled reader is written in an easy-to-gra… [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Kramer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1426314760
- Language: English
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Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
$18.99 Add to cartThe rise and fall of William Mulholland, and the story of L.A.’s disastrous dam collapse: “A dramatic saga of ambition, politics, money and betrayal” (Los Angeles Daily News).
Rivers in the Desert fol- Author: Davis, Margaret Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 149763878X
- Language: English
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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
$19.99 Read moreFirst published in 1963, Eliot Asinof’s Eight Men Out has become a timeless classic of a scandalous world series.
The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as “th- Author: Asinof, Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0805065377
- Language: English
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The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948
$25.00 Read moreThe memoirs of Wasif Jawhariyyeh are a remarkable treasure trove of writings on the life, culture, music, and history of Jerusalem. Spanning over four decades, from 1904 to 1948, they cover a period o… [more below]
- Author: Jawhariyyeh, Wasif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1566569257
- Language: English
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
$18.99 Read moreIn 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0544313674
- Language: English
