Chronological Period/20th Century
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Big Machines: The Story of Virginia Lee Burton
$17.99 Read moreIn this loving tribute to Virginia Lee Burton, the New York Times best-selling creators Sherri Duskey Rinker and John Rocco pay homage to the storied life of one of the most beloved creators in childr… [more below]
- Author: Rinker, Sherri Duskey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0544715578
- Language: English
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Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific (Scholastic Focus): The Incredible Story of U.S. Submarines in WWII
$9.99 Read moreSibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson paints a vivid portrait of the deadly battles that raged in the Pacific during WWII and the remarkable courage of the US submarine sailors who fought them.
Dive! W… [more below]
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 054542559X
- Language: English
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Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
$18.99 Add to cartLouis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. He was a phenomenally gifted and imaginative artist, and an entertainer so irresistibly magnetic that he knocked… [more below]
- Author: Teachout, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 07 2010
- ISBN10: 547386370
- Language: English
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There’s No Business
$12.99 Add to cart- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 16
- Publish Date: May 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0876856229
- Language: English
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Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe: Knight’s Cross Holders 1943-1945
$42.95 Read moreThe second of two comprehensive directories of all the Luftwaffe’s single-seater fighter pilots who were awarded the Knight’s Cross during the Second World War.
The German fighter pilots of the Second … [more below]
- Author: Dixon, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1399030736
- Language: English
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The Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire: A Boston Tragedy
$23.99 Read moreOn November 28, 1942, fire roared through Boston’s famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub during what was supposed to be a high-spirited Saturday night. By midnight, more than five hundred people were dead, d
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Schorow, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1467152870
- Language: English
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Italo Balbo’s Flight to the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair
$24.99 Read moreTrace the monumental story of a transatlantic flight to the Century of Progress Exposition.
In an era when transatlantic travel was still dangerous, Italy caused a sensation by announcing its participa
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Fiore, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155349
- Language: English
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Coming to America Through the Angel Island Immigration Station: A History Seeking Adventure
$9.99 Read moreYOU are an Asian immigrant in the early 1900s. You dream of a life in American, but first you’ll have to pass through the Angel Island Immigration Station. How long will you be stuck there? And will y… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Seeking History
- Author: Collins, Ailynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669032728
- Language: English
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The Sum of One Man’s Pleasure
$17.95 Read more1963 – Finn Kenny fled Ottawa after being implicated in an RCMP purge of suspected Communist sympathisers and “homosexuals”, ending up on Vancouver Island working for the Spencerwood Estate alongside
- Author: Neil, Danial
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1774390787
- Language: English
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When She Dreams
$33.00 Read moreMaggie Lodge, assistant to the advice columnist known only as Dear Aunt Cornelia to her readers, hires private eye Sam Sage to help track down the person who is blackmailing her employer. In spite of
- Author: Quick, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 31 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885789080
- Language: English
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Messerschmitt Me 309: Development & Politics
$70.00 Read moreChosen in 1941 to replace the Bf 109 as the Luftwaffe’s standard front-line fighter, Messerschmitt’s innovative Me 309 embodied a wealth of hard-won experience from the Battle of Britain. Its sturdy t… [more below]
- Series: Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe
- Author: Sharp, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1911658964
- Language: English
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Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
$23.95 Read moreThe inspiration for the PBS documentary premiering March 2023
The story of the revolutionary Black women welfare organizers of Las Vegas who spearheaded an evergreen, radical revisioning of American e- Author: Orleck, Annelise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0807007978
- Language: English
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British Frigates and Escort Destroyers 1939-45
$20.00 Read moreA history of the small, mass-produced warships that defended the Atlantic convoys from U-boats and secured Britain’s lifeline to the United States.
As the Battle of the Atlantic grew fiercer, Britain- Series: New Vanguard #319
- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1472858115
- Language: English
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The Ditchdigger’s Daughters: A Black Family’s Astonishing Success Story
$16.95 Read moreAs resonant now as it ever was, this inspiring portrait by a loving daughter of a father whose pervasive common sense, folk wisdom, and untutored but right-on insights gave his children their road map… [more below]
- Author: Thornton, Yvonne S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1496739191
- Language: English
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Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
$21.95 Read moreForeword by Janet Yellen
Weijian Shan’s Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Am
- Author: Shan, Weijian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1394172583
- Language: English
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Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer
$28.00 Read moreZelda Popkin’s adventurous life could have made her the protagonist of one of her own novels. In his brilliant telling of the story of her life, her historian grandson, Jeremy D. Popkin, has made a si
- Author: Popkin, Jeremy D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 153816843X
- Language: English
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Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
$19.00 Read moreA Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2012
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012
In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illumina- Author: Dyson, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1400075998
- Language: English
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Warsaw Requiem
$15.99 Read moreOpening 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 that is sweeping through central … [more below]
- Series: Zion Covenant #6
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 141430112X
- Language: English
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Aces at Kursk: The Battle for Aerial Supremacy on the Eastern Front, 1943
$42.95 Read moreThe Battle of Kursk in July 1943 is known for being the largest tank battle in history. A Russian victory, it marked the decisive end of the German offensive capability on the Eastern Front and set th… [more below]
- Author: Lawrence, Christopher A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1399081438
- Language: English
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Jack’s Path of Courage: The Life of John F. Kennedy
$8.99 Read moreA moving portrait of a courageous figure by the author of Abe’s Honest Words and Martin’s Big Words.
John F. Kennedy was a popular, charismatic president, beloved by many. But he didn’t always believ- Series: Big Words #5
- Author: Rappaport, Doreen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1484749618
- Language: English
