Chronological Period/20th Century
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Hurry Up, Houdini!
$6.99 Add to cartThe #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!
Abracadabra! Jack and Annie are on a mission for Merlin the magician. T- Series: Magic Tree House (R) Merlin Mission #22
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0307980480
- Language: English
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The Diviners
$17.99 Add to cartA young woman discovers her mysterious powers could help catch a killer in the first book of The Diviners series–a stunning supernatural historical mystery set in 1920s New York City, from Printz Awa… [more below]
- Series: Diviners #1
- Author: Bray, Libba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0316126101
- 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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Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
$25.33 Add to cartIt is 1977, and the police are on their way to break up another student protest at Tehran University. Amineh escapes to a side street. She will soon have her degree in Persian literature, but unlike h… [more below]
- Author: Bjursten, Nadine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9198861611
- Language: English
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Team America: Patton, Macarthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged
$22.99 Add to cart- Author: O’Connell, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0062883283
- Language: English
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Swann’s Way
$18.95 Add to cartNow available for the first time in the United States, a celebrated translation of the first volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
Swann’s Way, the first of the seven volumes that constitut- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1681376296
- Language: English
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Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War
$30.00 Read moreA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – An extraordinary account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live–and to create–with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish… [more below]
- Author: Watling, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0593319664
- Language: English
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Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
$24.99 Add to cartFrom Derf Backderf, the bestselling author of My Friend Dahmer, comes the Eisner and ALA/YALSA Alex Award-winning tragic and unforgettable story of the Kent State shootings, told in graphic novel form… [more below]
- Author: Backderf, Derf
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1419734849
- Language: English
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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
$32.99 Add to cartNamed one of The Washington Post‘s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a “new birth of freedom,” Heather Cox Richardson arg- Author: Richardson, Heather Cox
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0190900903
- Language: English
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Ophie’s Ghosts
$16.99 Read moreWinner of the 2001 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation makes her middle grade debut with a sweeping tale of the ghosts of our past that won’t
- Author: Ireland, Justina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0062915894
- Language: English
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Do What They Say or Else
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature
Originally published in 1977, Do What They Say or Else is the second novel by French author Annie Ernaux. Set in a small town in Normandy, France, the nov- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496228006
- Language: English
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Profiles in Courage
$27.99 Add to cartTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CLASSIC OF POLITICAL INTEGRITY
With a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy and introduction by Caroline Kennedy
John F. Kennedy’s enduring classic resounds with timeless lessons on
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0060530626
- Language: English
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Orwell on Truth
$16.99 Add to cartOver the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at the fundamental truths of the world. He had no place for dissemblers, liars, co… [more below]
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0358065054
- Language: English
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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
$24.00 Add to cartBest Book of June 2015 (The Christian Science Monitor)
Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature C. S. Lewis is the 20th century’s most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R.- Author: Zaleski, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536252
- Language: English
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How to Listen to Jazz
$18.99 Add to cartA “radiantly accomplished” music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz (Wall Street Journal)
In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia prese- Author: Gioia, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0465093493
- Language: English
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America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones
$19.95 Add to cartTakes a behind-the-scenes look at Yale’s mysterious society, the Order of the Skull and Bones, and its prominent members, numbering among them Tafts, Rockefellers, Pillsburys, and Bushes. This book re… [more below]
- Author: Sutton, Antony C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 317
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0972020748
- Language: English
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History Comics: The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights
$13.99 Add to cartTurn back the clock with History Comics! In this graphic novel, experience the Stonewall Riots firsthand and meet iconic activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.
Three teenagers–Natalia, Ja- Series: History Comics
- Author: Bongiovanni, Archie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1250618355
- Language: English
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Love Is in the Air: The Story of Aviation Pioneer Nancy Harkness Love
$18.99 Read moreTake off with Nancy Harkness Love, first female pilot to serve in the Army Air Forces and founder of the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) during World War II, in this picture book biography … [more below]
- Author: Romito, Dee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1534484191
- Language: English
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Heaven to Betsy and Betsy in Spite of Herself
$22.00 Add to cart“Some characters become your friends for life. That’s how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.” –Judy Blume
With a Foreword by Laura Lippman
These two books in Maud Hart Lovelace’s beloved Betsy-Tacy series:
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lovelace, Maud Hart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0061794694
- Language: English
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Billy and the Minpins
$7.99 Add to cartOne of Dahl’s beloved stories available for the first time in novel format and newly illustrated by Quentin Blake
Billy’s mum says he must never go out through the garden gate and explore the dark fo- Author: Dahl, Roald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 059311342X
- Language: English
