Chronological Period/1920's
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On the Rocks: A Willa Cather and Edith Lewis Mystery
$15.95 Read moreThe year is 1929 and Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Willa Cather and her partner Edith Lewis are summering on Grand Manan, an island in the Bay of Fundy. In their cottage’s sparsely-furnished attic r… [more below]
- Author: Hallgarth, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 255
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0985520000
- Language: English
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The Rainbow Tulip
$8.99 Read moreStella loves her family and her Mexican heritage, but she doesn’t always like being different from the other kids at school. Now her class is going to dance around the Maypole at the school’s May para… [more below]
- Author: Mora, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 24 2003
- ISBN10: 0142500097
- Language: English
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
$21.00 Read moreAn electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle
In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfight- Author: Boyle, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0805079335
- Language: English
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The Good Thieves
$17.99 Add to cart“A dazzling tale of wild hope, lingering grief, admirable self-sufficiency, and intergenerational adoration.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Vita tests her own limits, and readers will thrill a… [more below]- Author: Rundell, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 148141948X
- 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 Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
$21.00 Add to cartA searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath–from the prizewinning economist and author of Shutdown, Crashed and The Wages of Destruction
Winner of the L- Author: Tooze, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127977
- Language: English
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The Mexican Revolution
$18.95 Add to cartFirst published in Spanish in 1971, The Mexican Revolution has been praised by Mexico’s Nobel Prize-winning author Octavio Paz as a “notable contribution” to history and is widely recognized as a semi
- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Gilly, Adolfo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1595581235
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Mother Jones
$9.95 Read moreAmong the most stirring works of labor history ever written, this autobiography of Mother Jones (n? Mary Harris) chronicles the life of a woman who was considered a saint by many, and by others, the m… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Mary Harris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0486436454
- Language: English
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Flying Too High: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
$14.99 Read moreFrom the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Flying Too High, the next historical mystery featuring the unstoppable amateur sleuth Phryne Fisher. And this time around, she takes to th
- Series: Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback) #2
- Author: Greenwood, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1590583957
- Language: English
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
$17.95 Read moreProhibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to r
- Author: McGirr, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353524
- Language: English
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Lena and the Burning of Greenwood: A Tulsa Race Massacre Survival Story
$27.99 Read moreIn the early 1920s, the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the wealthiest Black community in the United States. But Tulsa is still a segregated city. “Black Wall Street” and white Tulsa are ver… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Smith, Nikki Shannon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1663990565
- Language: English
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Palace of Desire
$17.00 Read morePalace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.
The novels of the Cairo- Series: Cairo Trilogy #02
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0307947114
- Language: English
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Out of the Shadows: How Lotte Reiniger Made the First Animated Fairytale Movie
$18.99 Read moreOut of the Shadows is an innovative picture book biography about an unsung hero of early animation.
Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) was a German film director and animator best known for The Adventures of- Author: Robinson, Fiona
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1419740857
- Language: English
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The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
$18.95 Read moreExtraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Dramatically c… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494929
- Language: English
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Babbitt
$10.95 Add to cartAmusing and tragic by turn, Sinclair Lewis’s classic novel is a biting satire of middle-American values whose title has entered the language as a byword for smug complacency, conformity, and materiali… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0199567697
- Language: English
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A Letter of Mary
$19.00 Read moreThe third book in the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series.
It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the summer together on their Sussex estate when th- Series: Mary Russell Novels (Paperback) #3
- Author: King, Laurie R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0312427387
- Language: English
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The Voice That Won the Vote: How One Woman’s Words Made History: How One Woman’s Words Made History
$16.99 Read moreIn August of 1920, women’s suffrage in America came down to the vote in Tennessee. If the Tennessee legislature approved the 19th amendment it would be ratified, giving all American women the right to… [more below]
- Author: Boxer, Elisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1534110496
- Language: English
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Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
$18.95 Read moreNAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the tensi- Author: Young, Rj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1640096167
- Language: English
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Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
$18.99 Read moreFrom Children’s Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance–paired with fu
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1681199440
- Language: English
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Esperanza Rising
$21.65 Add to cartPura Belpr Award Winner
IRA Notable Book for a Global Society New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and SharingEsperanza thought she’d always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico
- Author: Ryan, Pam Munoz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1432863886
- Language: English
