Chronological Period/20th Century
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
$21.00 Add to cartOne of New York Magazine’s best books on Silicon Valley
The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O’Mara became o- Author: O’Mara, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0399562206
- Language: English
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War Lord
$28.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“I gulped it right down. Excellent, as always. . . . Cornwell brings battles to life like no one else.” -George R.R. Martin, Author of Game of Thrones
The final installment in
- Series: Saxon Tales #13
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0062563297
- Language: English
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Books by Horseback: A Librarian’s Brave Journey to Deliver Books to Children
$17.99 Read moreWinner of the 2021 Northern Lights Book Awards–Historical Category
Books By Horseback is a breathtaking adventure of a heroic Pack Horse Librarian who braves the harsh terrain of rural Kentucky to br- Author: Berne, Emma Carlson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 149981173X
- Language: English
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The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
$30.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling au… [more below]
- Author: Letts, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0593414063
- Language: English
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The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
$20.00 Read moreFrom bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII
In May 1945, after German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, millions of- Author: Nasaw, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0143110993
- Language: English
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Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home
$18.00 Read moreA sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebrated book publisher Kurt Wolff
A literary gem research… [more below]
- Author: Wolff, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0802158269
- Language: English
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Discover Her Art: Women Artists and Their Masterpieces
$19.99 Read more“An inclusive, easy-to-read guidebook to women artists.” — Publishers Weekly.
“A must for art history curriculum and to diversify biography shelves.” —School Library Journal. Discover Her Art invit- Author: Leibowitz, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1641606142
- Language: English
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Struggle and Mutual Aid: The Age of Worker Solidarity
$29.99 Read moreA dynamic historian revisits the workers’ internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked.
In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often set in oppo- Author: Delalande, Nicolas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1635420105
- Language: English
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The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
$30.00 Read moreHow six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II
“A damning indictment. . . . The parallels with today’s right-wing media, on both sides of the Atlantic, are u- Author: Olmsted, Kathryn S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0300256426
- Language: English
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Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt’s Roaring ’20s
$17.95 Read moreOne of the world’s most multicultural cities, twentieth-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented. During the 1920s and ’30s, a vibrant music, theater, film, and cabaret scene flourish
- Author: Cormack, Raphael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021934
- Language: English
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Murder in the Park
$28.99 Read moreIntroducing spirited female sleuth Elizabeth Fairchild in the first of the brilliant new Oak Park village mystery series, set in 1920s Illinois.
June, 1925. Having been widowed in the Great War, Eli- Series: Oak Park Village Mystery #1
- Author: Dams, Jeanne M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0727850458
- Language: English
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D?kirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk
$30.00 Read more‘Kershaw’s book is a welcome rebalancing; a thoughtful, well-researched and well-written contribution to a narrative that has long been too one-sided and too mired in national mythology.’ – The Times
- Author: Kershaw, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1472854373
- Language: English
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Wicked Cleveland
$21.99 Read moreAward-winning true crime author Jane Turzillo brings together the strippers, gangsters, robbers, shady politicians, and more from Cleveland’s rough and rowdy past.
From world-class museums and popular
- Series: Wicked
- Author: Turzillo, Jane Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 27 2022
- ISBN10: 146715024X
- Language: English
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Us Destroyers Vs German U-Boats: The Atlantic 1941-45
$23.00 Read moreAn absorbing study of the duels fought between the US Navy’s escort warships and Hitler’s U-boats between December 1941 and May 1945.
Although the Battle of the Atlantic lasted several years, its most- Series: Duel #127
- Author: Lardas, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1472854101
- Language: English
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The Name of the World
$16.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Jesus’ Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern universit
- Author: Johnson, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060929650
- Language: English
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Audacity
$13.99 Read moreA 2015 National Jewish Book Award finalist
The inspiring story of Clara Lemlich, whose fight for equal rights led to the largest strike by women in American history A gorgeously told novel in verse w- Author: Crowder, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0147512492
- Language: English
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Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
$26.95 Add to cartIn Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women–northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina–share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonv… [more below]
- Author: Holsaert, Faith S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0252078888
- Language: English
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James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study
$15.95 Add to cart- Author: Gilbert, Stuart
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 12 1955
- ISBN10: 0394700139
- Language: English
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Hattie Big Sky
$9.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER
A classic YA novel about a teenage girl searching for a sense of home and family that celebrates the true spirit of independence on the American- Series: Hattie
- Author: Larson, Kirby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0440239419
- Language: English
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Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
$21.99 Add to cartFrom world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a poignant memoir about her spiritual epiphany and an appeal for why everyone can find a reas… [more below]
- Author: Goodall, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0446676136
- Language: English
