Chronological Period/20th Century
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The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now (the Deadliest #2, Scholastic Focus): Volume 2
$25.99 Read morePerfect for fans of I Survived and the Who Was series! Packed with graphics, photos, and facts for curious minds, this is a gripping look at America’s deadliest hurricanes.
As a hurricane gathered in t
- Series: The Deadliest
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1338360175
- Language: English
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The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now (the Deadliest #2, Scholastic Focus): Volume 2
$8.99 Read morePerfect for fans of I Survived and the Who Was series! Packed with graphics, photos, and facts for curious minds, this is a gripping look at America’s deadliest hurricane.
As a hurricane gathered in th
- Series: The Deadliest
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1338360191
- Language: English
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I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad
$17.99 Read moreThe explosive true story of America’s most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), which terrorized the city of Baltimore for half a decade.
When Baltimore police sergeant Wayne Jenkins- Author: Woods, Baynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 125022182X
- Language: English
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Twentieth Century Boys: How One Multigenerational Family Business Survived and Thrived
$16.95 Read moreIn the early 1900s, Gordon Clark and his father, Si, sold their farm in rural Canada in search of the business of America. They found it in Seattle, Washington, and in 1929 Gordon and his brother Russ… [more below]
- Author: Clark Watson, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1647423171
- Language: English
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On This Day in History: A Kid’s Day-By-Day Guide to 2,675 Significant Events
$14.99 Read moreUnearth all of history’s most significant events for every day of the year!
In On This Day in History, kids who love facts and trivia will spend hours poring over 2,675 milestones in sports, music,
- Author: Bushel & Peck Books
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 345
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1638192006
- Language: English
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A New History of Lexington, Kentucky
$21.99 Read moreLexington is known as the Horse Capital of the World, but the city’s history runs much deeper. Learn about the mayor who refused the Ku Klux Klan permission to march and organize in the city. Meet one… [more below]
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Ockerman Jr, Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1467146854
- Language: English
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Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil
$19.95 Read more“Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events. . . . This is an amazing piece of historical writing. . . . Stud
- Author: Dennett, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1645021475
- Language: English
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The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind
$35.00 Read moreA major new history of the Cold War that explores the conflict through the minds of the people who lived through it.
More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the hum- Author: Sixsmith, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1639361812
- Language: English
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The Lost Summers of Newport
$30.99 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“An engrossing and sumptuous tale, this novel is a fantastic spring read.” — Good Morning America
From the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Will
- Author: Williams, Beatriz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0063249081
- Language: English
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A Song for Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
$32.00 Read moreThe definitive biography of Creedence Clearwater Revival, exploring the band’s legendary rise to fame and how their music embodied the cultural landscape of the late ’60s and early ’70s
From 1969 to 1- Author: Lingan, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0306846713
- Language: English
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Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
$25.99 Add to cartAlfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspense and the most widely recognized film director of all time.
In a career that spanned six decades and p
- Author: McGilligan, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0060988274
- Language: English
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Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16
$22.99 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The definitive history of combat aviation and fighter aircraft, from World War I to present
INCLUDES 32 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND 12 MAPS
Lords of the Sky is the “dramatic, fast-pa
- Author: Hampton, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0062262092
- Language: English
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The Reagan Diaries
$24.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
“Reading these diaries, Americans will find it easier to understand how Reagan did what he did for so long . . . They paint a portrait of a president who was engaged by his
- Author: Reagan, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: May 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0061558338
- Language: English
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The Doll Shop Downstairs
$7.99 Read moreNine year old Anna and her sisters like helping out in their parents’ doll repair shop, because once their chores are done, the fun can begin. The girls are allowed to play carefully with the dolls un… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, Yona Zeldis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0142416916
- Language: English
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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
$19.00 Read moreLonglisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction
One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undes- Author: Cohen, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143109995
- Language: English
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Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists
$21.00 Read moreAnthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg’s Stealing Rembrandts is a spellbinding journey into the high-stakes world of art theft
Today, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the wo- Author: Amore, Anthony M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0230339905
- Language: English
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A Susan Sontag Reader
$30.99 Add to cartSusan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374535477
- Language: English
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The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908
$37.50 Read moreHenri Matisse is one of the masters of twentieth-century art and a household word to millions of people who find joy and meaning in his light-filled, colorful images–yet, despite all the books devote… [more below]
- Author: Spurling, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0375711333
- Language: English
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A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
$18.00 Read moreUnafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, u… [more below]
- Author: Glendon, Mary Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760466
- Language: English
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Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
$11.99 Add to cartPhotobiography of early twentieth-century photographer and schoolteacher Lewis Hine, using his own work as illustrations. Hines’s photographs of children at work were so devastating that they convince
- Author: Freedman, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 23 1998
- ISBN10: 395797268
- Language: English
