Chronological Period/20th Century
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True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America
$35.00 Read moreA celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey’s role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America
Hubert Humphrey was liberalism’s most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrific- Author: Traub, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619579
- Language: English
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All-Of-A-Kind Family Downtown
$13.95 Read moreElla, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie are back In the fourth entry in the All-of-a-Kind Family series–set right after the first book–Charlie is growing up. Ella gets a big role in the Purim pla
- Author: Taylor, Sydney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1939601258
- Language: English
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The Tobacco Wives
$27.99 Read moreMost anticipated by USA Today, W Magazine, New York Post, Parade, Bustle, Buzzfeed, Reader’s Digest, and PopSugar and named one of the best historical fiction books of the year by Cosmopolitan!
“A bea
- Author: Myers, Adele
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0063082934
- Language: English
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Luck of the Titanic
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl comes the richly imagined story of Valora and Jamie Luck, twin British-Chinese acrobats traveling aboard the Titanic on its ill-fated … [more below]
- Author: Lee, Stacey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1524741000
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
$21.99 Add to cartA candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt.
The daughter of one o
- Author: Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0062355910
- Language: English
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The Ship of Brides
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and Someone Else’s Shoes, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures.
194- Author: Moyes, Jojo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0143126474
- Language: English
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Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
$18.99 Add to cart“In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who’d s… [more below]
- Author: Armstrong, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 22 1986
- ISBN10: 0306802767
- Language: English
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What Was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?
$7.99 Add to cartLearn about Boston’s molasses disaster of 1919, when a storage tank burst and flooded the streets, in this latest addition to the New York Times Bestselling What Was? series.
An unusually warm winter- Series: What Was?
- Author: Anderson, Kirsten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0593520777
- Language: English
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In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow
$20.95 Read moreThe killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder. These chil
- Author: Mayer, Robert H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1588384373
- Language: English
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Run: Book One
$24.99 Add to cartFirst you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award-winning team behind March–Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell–this is the first book in their groundbreaking graphic n
- Author: Lewis, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 141973069X
- Language: English
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The Orchardist
$18.99 Add to cart“There are echoes of John Steinbeck in this beautiful and haunting debut novel. . . . Coplin depicts the frontier landscape and the plainspoken characters who inhabit it with dazzling clarity.” — Ent
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Coplin, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0062188518
- Language: English
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King Hedley II
$16.95 Add to cart“Wilson’s melody here is the mournful sound of what might have been, a blues-tinged tale about a driven, almost demonic man. He’s a petty thief named King who will stop at nothing for a better life. .
- Author: Wilson, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 155936260X
- Language: English
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Rosa Parks
$15.99 Add to cartIn this book from the highly acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Rosa Parks, the “Mother of the Freedom Movement.”
Rosa Parks grew up in Alabama, where she lea- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #9
- Author: Kaiser, Lisbeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1786030187
- Language: English
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Glory Be
$8.99 Add to cartA Mississippi town in 1964 gets riled when tempers flare at the segregated public pool.
As much as Gloriana June Hemphill, or Glory as everyone knows her, wants to turn twelve, there are times when Glo… [more below]
- Author: Scattergood, Augusta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 30 2014
- ISBN10: 0545331811
- Language: English
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What Were the Shark Attacks of 1916?
$7.99 Add to cartThe panic-filled summer of 1916, when multiple deadly shark attacks shocked the nation, is chronicled in this gripping addition to the New York Times Best-Selling What Was? series.
On July 1, 1916, wi- Series: What Was?
- Author: Medina, Nico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0593521587
- Language: English
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In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the Cia, Unmasked
$30.00 Add to cartThe bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War
Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contrac- Author: Mendez, Jonna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 154170312X
- Language: English
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
$20.99 Add to cartA joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today’s world
During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two imm- Author: Kinzer, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1250053129
- Language: English
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The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
$32.00 Add to cartThe shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation
On a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals dedica- Author: Martin, Lerone A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 069117511X
- Language: English
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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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Little Town on the Prairie: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$19.99 Add to cartBased on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie is the seventh book in the award-winning Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers. This ed
- Series: Little House #7
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 03 1953
- ISBN10: 0060264500
- Language: English
