Chronological Period/20th Century
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Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History
$24.95 Add to cartKorea has endured a “fractured, shattered twentieth century,” and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings’s leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the… [more below]
- Author: Cumings, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327027
- Language: English
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The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World
$18.00 Add to cartA brilliant and visionary argument for America’s role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world–and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our attention inward.
Recent years h- Author: Kagan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0525563571
- Language: English
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Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
$32.00 Add to cart“A vast choral pageant that recounts the momentous work of the civil rights struggle.”–The New York Times Book Review
A monumental volume drawing upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights- Author: Hampton, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: February 01 1991
- ISBN10: 553352326
- Language: English
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Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
$19.99 Add to cartA 2005 Sibert Honor Book
The story of Sequoyah is the tale of an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea–to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians and turn his people into a nation of rea- Author: Rumford, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0618369473
- Language: English
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
$33.50 Read moreGreil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: th… [more below]
- Author: Marcus, Greil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0674034805
- Language: English
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A Lesson for Martin Luther King Jr.: Ready-To-Read Level 2
$5.99 Read moreLearn all about the childhood of America’s most famous civil rights activist in this nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read
Young Martin Luther King Jr. is having some problems with his best friend, Bobby.- Series: Ready-To-Read Childhood of Famous Americans
- Author: Pate, Rodney S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0689853971
- Language: English
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Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma
$36.95 Read morePaul Grondahl is a reporter at the Albany Times Union and the author of four books, including the acclaimed political biography, I Rose like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt. Hi… [more below]
- Author: Grondahl, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 626
- Publish Date: September 07 2007
- ISBN10: 0791472949
- Language: English
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The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio
$34.43 Add to cartThis lively blast from the past peels back the many layers of the Top 40 phenomenon: the DJs, fans, singles, jingles, dedications, contests, requests and more. The book features interviews with such r… [more below]
- Author: Fong-Torres, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: December 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0879306645
- Language: English
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Padre Pio and America
$24.95 Read moreFirst titled, The Holy Man on the Mountain, this book tells the fascinating life story of Padre Pio, with emphasis on his life as a seminarian, young priest and his early decades at San Giovanni Roton… [more below]
- Author: Rega, Frank M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0895558203
- Language: English
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Dust Yourself Off: The Gravel Road to a Good Life
$24.95 Read moreDust Yourself Off chronicles the life of Muriel, a quintessential Norwegian American farm girl in Fort Ransom, North Dakota, and the mother of co-author Tom Sandhei. Forced to leave home at the age of… [more below]
- Author: Velure, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1946163503
- Language: English
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Brazilian Battleship Minas Gerais
$37.95 Read moreIn 1904, the Brazilian Congress approved a fleet renewal program involving the construction of 28 ships of various classes, including 3 battleships. The implementation of the program, which was the wo… [more below]
- Series: Super Drawings in 3D
- Author: Sukhanevich, Aliaksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 8367294157
- Language: English
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Gently Falls the Bakula
$14.95 Read moreWhat is more important: a successful career or a happy marriage?
In the small town of Hubli, Shrikant discovers that he is attracted to his plain-looking but charming neighbor Shrimati, who always d- Author: Murty, Sudha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 14 2008
- ISBN10: 0143103776
- Language: English
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Jerusalem Interlude
$18.99 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 #4
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1414301103
- Language: English
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Abe’s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
$8.99 Read moreTold in Doreen Rappaport’s accessible, absorbing prose, and brought to life in powerful illustrations by Kadir Nelson, Abe’s Honest Words is an epic portrait of a truly great American president.
From- Series: Big Words #3
- Author: Rappaport, Doreen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1484749588
- Language: English
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A Culinary History of Mobile
$24.99 Read moreJoin author Christopher Andrews on a delectable romp through the long food history of Mobile, Alabama .
From its founding in 1702 by the French, Mobile has had a lot on its plate. Indeed, the story
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Andrews, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1467149055
- Language: English
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Goering’s Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World
$24.00 Read moreA charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world
“[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a n- Author: Petropoulos, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0300274262
- Language: English
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Lost Mackinac Island
$23.99 Read moreWhether prehistoric and glacially slow or swift and modern, countless changes to Mackinac Island have driven much of its history out of sight and memory. Eons ago, waves washed away soft rock to leave… [more below]
- Series: Lost
- Author: Pucci, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1467149187
- Language: English
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Breaking Through the Lines: The Marion Motley Story
$14.99 Read moreMarion Motley was recognized as one of the gridiron’s most outstanding players when he was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968 in his hometown of Canton, Ohio. His legacy off the fiel
- Author: Morgan Jr, David Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1634947533
- Language: English
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Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad
$32.00 Add to cartIn the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be as surrounded by myth and mystery as the Mossad. Gordon Thomas reveals that all too often the truth ex
- Author: Thomas, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1250056403
- Language: English
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Spitfire Photo-Recce Units of World War 2
$25.00 Read moreA fascinating exploration of the feats of the RAF’s photographic reconnaissance aircraft.
The photographic reconnaissance (PR) versions of the Supermarine Spitfire saw service against the Axis Tripart- Series: Combat Aircraft #150
- Author: Fletcher, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1472854616
- Language: English
