Chronological Period/20th Century
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The Enchanted April
$11.95 Add to cart‘To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine. Small medieval castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let For the month of April, above a bay on the Italian Riviera.’
Four very different wome- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Von Arnim, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198859090
- Language: English
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Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington
$5.99 Read moreAll Aboard Reading!
On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people came to the nation’s capital. They came by plane, by bus, by car–even on roller-skates–to speak out against segregation and to demand
- Series: Penguin Young Readers, Level 3
- Author: Ruffin, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0448424215
- Language: English
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The National Parks: America’s Best Idea
$65.00 Add to cartThe companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration … [more below]- Author: Duncan, Dayton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0307268969
- Language: English
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Shattered Midnight-The Mirror, Book 2
$18.99 Read moreCan dreams come true when you’re living with a family curse?
Zora Broussard has arrived in New Orleans with not much more than a bag of clothes, a beautiful voice, and a pair of enchanted red shoes. Ru… [more below]- Series: Mirror #2
- Author: Clayton, Dhonielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1368046428
- Language: English
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Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics: 1776-1963
$19.99 Read moreWhat they didn’t teach you in school about Benjamin Franklin, The Freeemasons, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, the Spanish American War, Prohibition, and more.
In this updated paperback edition, there i- Author: Jeffries, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1510769102
- Language: English
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Broken Icarus: The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of Fascism
$29.95 Read more2022 History Book Festival Official Selection.
The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national saviors
- Author: Hanna, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 163388676X
- Language: English
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The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
$28.00 Read more“This is rich, florid, funny history, with undertones of human grief . . . Knight is shrewd and perceptive . . . [he] pushes his material into neurobiology, into the nature of placebos and expectation… [more below]
- Author: Knight, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1984879596
- Language: English
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The Tuscan Contessa: A Heartbreaking New Novel Set in Wartime Tuscany
$15.95 Read moreONE WAR. TWO WOMEN. WILL THEY BE ABLE TO SAVE THE ONES THEY LOVE?
A sweeping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author In 1943, Contessa Sofia de’ Corsi’s peaceful Tuscan villa among the oliv- Author: Jefferies, Dinah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0241987318
- Language: English
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Labels of Empire: Textile Trademarks – Windows Into India in the Time of the Raj
$100.00 Read moreIt was said that at one time Great Britain clothed the world. In the 1880s, when the British textile industry was at its most prosperous to date, much of the world’s population wore clothing made from… [more below]
- Author: Meller, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1954081251
- Language: English
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The Red Cross Orphans
$16.99 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of The Secret Orphan comes her brand new unputdownable historical fiction novel!
A journey into war, but not one she’ll take alone…
Orphan Kitty Pattison is young, na?e a
- Series: Red Cross Orphans #1
- Author: Peters, Glynis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0008523797
- Language: English
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Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity
$18.95 Read moreThe personal and professional life of Bruno Kreisky (1911-1990), Austria’s long-serving Socialist chancellor from August 1970 to May 1983, has been the focus of many books and articles. However, his a
- Author: Aschheim, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1608012425
- Language: English
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Momma’s Lost Piano: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartWhen she is seventeen, Emily Merritt’s beloved father gives her the piano she has always wanted. A few days later, having lost his job, he sells Emily’s piano and moves the family out of its two-story… [more below]
- Author: Madden, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1621907821
- Language: English
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British Aircraft Carriers 1945-2010
$20.00 Read moreThe history of the Royal Navy flagships that led the fleet through the Cold War, ensured victory in the Falklands War, and saw action in Iraq and the Balkans.
In 1945, at the end of World War II, the- Series: New Vanguard #317
- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1472856872
- Language: English
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Vietnam Combat: Firefights and Writing History
$37.95 Read moreFinalist, 2023 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards
Finalist, War & Military, 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Winner, Military Nonfiction, 2023 NYC Big Book Awards
2nd Pla… [more below]- Author: Bartlett, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1636242421
- Language: English
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Fables for Our Time
$15.99 Add to cart“These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us humans how we really are, are completely uproarious.” –The Saturday Review of Literature
James Thurber has been called “one of our grea
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0060909994
- Language: English
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The Duke Is Mine
$9.99 Read moreThe Duke Is Mine is a stunning Princess and the Pea story with a delightfully romantic Regency spin–the third book in the fairytale-based historical romance series from New York Times bestselling aut
- Series: Fairy Tales #3
- Author: James, Eloisa
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0062021281
- Language: English
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Vip: Lewis Latimer: Engineering Wizard
$7.99 Read moreGet ready to light up the world with Lewis Latimer in this exciting middle grade nonfiction biography. Perfect for fans of the Who Was and Little Leaders series, the books in the VIP series tell the t
- Series: VIP
- Author: Patrick, Denise Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0062889664
- Language: English
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Eleanor
$8.99 Read moreThough she came from a wealthy and privileged family, Eleanor Roosevelt grew up in a cheerless household that left her lonely and shy. Years passed before Eleanor began to discover in herself the qual… [more below]
- Series: Picture Puffin Books
- Author: Cooney, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140555838
- Language: English
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Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen
$18.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling biographer-the first book-length portrait of music legend Tammy Wynette.
Known for his acclaimed biographies of Neil Young, Russ Meyer, and Andy Milligan, Jimmy M- Author: McDonough, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0143118889
- Language: English
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The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
$8.99 Read moreA powerful story about race and an unlikely friendship from award-winning author of The Lions of Little Rock.
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults The last thing Harry “Dit” Sims expects when Emma Walker- Author: Levine, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0142416487
- Language: English
