Chronological Period/20th Century
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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
$24.95 Add to cartThe Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we really know about those who experienced slavery?
In their p
- Author: Willis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1439909865
- Language: English
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What I Loved
$20.99 Add to cartSiri Hustvedt’s What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the
- Author: Hustvedt, Siri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312421192
- Language: English
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The Sinking of the Titanic
$8.99 Read moreTells the story of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. Written in graphic-novel format.
- Series: Graphic History
- Author: Doeden, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0736852476
- Language: English
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Eli the Good
$9.99 Add to cartIn his YA debut, a best-selling novelist revisits a summer of tumult and truth for a young narrator and his war-torn family. Available in paperback with a discussion guide
For ten-year-old Eli Book,- Author: House, Silas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0763652881
- Language: English
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The Songs That Could Have Been
$17.99 Read more“A stunning journey of loss, love, and yearning. . . . Past and present are deftly woven together in this dual-timeline narrative that will leave readers flying through the pages.” –Amanda Cox, autho… [more below]
- Author: Wen, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0825447690
- Language: English
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Urn Burial: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
$14.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Urn Burial, the next historical mystery featuring the sultry, sharp-as-a-whip Miss Fisher. Can she find a way to clear up a muddied murder
- Series: Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback) #8
- Author: Greenwood, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 30 2011
- ISBN10: 159058368X
- Language: English
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Jose! Born to Dance: The Story of Jose Limon
$19.99 Add to cartJos?! Born to Dance tells the story of a boy born in a small Mexican village who became one of the greatest dancers of all time–Jos? Lim?n.
Jos? was a boy with a song in his heart and a dance in his- Author: Reich, Susanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0689865767
- Language: English
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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry
$17.95 Read moreA bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty years
- Author: Adonis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0863565247
- 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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Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism
$47.48 Add to cart- Author: Warraq, Ibn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1591024846
- Language: English
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Paths of Glory
$20.99 Add to cartJapanese edition of Paths of Glory. Fictionalized story of George Mallory, the great explorer of Mt. Everest and perhaps the first man to ever reach the summit, only to disappear, his body discovered … [more below]
- Author: Archer, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1250314739
- Language: English
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While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
$17.99 Add to cartOn September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing f… [more below]
- Author: McKinstry, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1414336373
- Language: English
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First Among Equals
$23.99 Add to cartCharles Seymour, second-born son, will never be the earl like his father, but he did inherit his mother’s strength-and the will to realize his destiny…Simon Kerslake’s father sacrificed everything t
- Author: Archer, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1250101999
- Language: English
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I.W.W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent: A Facsimile Reprint of the Nineteenth Edition (1923) of the Little Red Song Book
$5.95 Add to cartA RADICAL LABOR CLASSIC
Undoubtedly the most popular book in American labor history, the I.W.W.’s Little Red Song Book has been a staple item on picket lines and at other workers’ gatherings for gener
- Series: PM Pamphlet
- Author: Industrial Workers of the World (I W. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: February 24 2014
- ISBN10: 160486950X
- Language: English
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Can You Survive the 1900 Galveston Hurricane?: An Interactive History Adventure
$9.99 Read moreIn September 1900, the people of Galveston, Texas, knew a storm was coming. But they’d experienced storms before and didn’t think much of it. However, the hurricane that hit on September 8 was more po… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Disasters in History
- Author: Gunderson, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1666323500
- Language: English
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Katrina: A History, 1915-2015
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the Bancroft Prize
“The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina–the civ
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year- Author: Horowitz, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271076
- Language: English
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Dear Denise: Letters to the Sister I Never Knew
$19.95 Read morePoignant, honest, and heartfelt letters to a sister who perished in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Lisa McNair was born in 1964, one year after her older sister, Denise, was murdered in the b- Author: McNair, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0817321357
- Language: English
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Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
$19.99 Read more“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” –Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground
“Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing shor- Author: Jackson, Jeffrey H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1643752057
- Language: English
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When I Was Young in the Mountains
$17.99 Read moreFor twenty years, Cynthia Rylant’s story of childhood in the Appalachian Mountains has been an enduring favorite. Growing up in the mountains is depicted with a spare, lyrical text and beautiful, tend… [more below]
- Author: Rylant, Cynthia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 30 1982
- ISBN10: 052542525X
- Language: English
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Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War
$18.00 Read moreA controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a best-selling Israeli author
“A must for anyone who wants to understand the tectonic forces under- Author: Goodman, Micah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0300248415
- Language: English
