Chronological Period/20th Century
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
$18.99 Read moreMoose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she’s denied admittance t… [more below]
- Series: Tales from Alcatraz #1
- Author: Choldenko, Gennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0399238611
- Language: English
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Who Is Bob Dylan?
$6.99 Read moreA Nobel Prize-winning singer-songwriter, musician, and artist, Bob Dylan is an American icon. In the past five decades, Dylan’s work has influenced everyone from John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Da… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0448464616
- Language: English
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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
$18.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”–events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order t
- Author: Boorstin, Daniel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679741801
- Language: English
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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
$19.00 Read more#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s
In this “overpowering and beautiful nov- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulks, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 02 1997
- ISBN10: 0679776818
- Language: English
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In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
$20.00 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The definitive insider’s account of American policy making in Vietnam.
“Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his cou- Author: McNamara, Robert S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0679767495
- Language: English
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Running with Pheidippides: Stylianos Kyriakides, the Miracle Marathoner
$29.95 Add to cartIt is 1946. World War II is over. As the rest of Europe struggles to rebuild itself, Greece–which had bitterly resisted Nazi occupation–is ripped apart by civil war. Thousands are dead or dying of s
- Series: Sports and Entertainment (Hardcover)
- Author: Tsiotos, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0815607032
- Language: English
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Milestones: Memoirs: 1927 – 1977
$14.95 Read moreRich in humor and culture, as well as passion and love for the cause of God and of man, Milestones is the early autobiography of Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger. It tells the fascinating and inspi… [more below]
- Author: Ratzinger, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: September 30 1988
- ISBN10: 0898707021
- Language: English
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Two Navies Divided: The British and United States Navies in the Second World War
$60.00 Read moreThe title is derived from George Bernard Shaw’s comment that “England and America are two countries divided by a common language.” It is not intended to imply that the two navies were seriously at odd… [more below]
- Author: Lavery, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682474720
- Language: English
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Day of the Assassins
$19.99 Read moreA forensic account of political assassinations from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
- Author: Burleigh, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 152903017X
- Language: English
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Filipinos in Greater Boston
$23.99 Read moreAs early as the Civil War, a dozen Filipino men living in Massachusetts enlisted in the Union army. In the 1900s, Filipino pensionados studied at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Talusan, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467109606
- Language: English
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Calder Grit
$33.00 Read moreWith all the intense drama, historical detail and grand sweep of her original New York Times bestselling Calder series, Dailey returns to 1909 Montana, as tensions mount between immigrant homesteaders… [more below]
- Author: Dailey, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885786584
- Language: English
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Philippine-American Heritage in Washington, D.C.
$23.99 Read moreJourney into the Philippine-American experience in Washington, DC. Washington is famed for its place in the history of the United States, but few know its close connections with the Philippines. Trace… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Tiongson, Erwin R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1467149020
- Language: English
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Ultimate Allied Fighters of the Second World War
$60.00 Read moreProfusely illustrated with technical drawings and provides exhaustive coverage on different models and variants.
During the five years of the Second World War, the power of engines and speed of aircraf… [more below]
- Author: Miranda, Justo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1781558884
- Language: English
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Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire
$19.99 Read moreWINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2023
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing
Longlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
A Guardian Book of the- Author: Koram, Kojo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1529338646
- Language: English
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The Untold Story of Annie Turnbo Malone: Hair Care Millionaire
$31.32 Read moreMost people know about Madam C.J. Walker’s success selling hair care products for Black women in the early 1900s. Before she started her own business, though, she worked for Annie Turnbo Malone. Malon… [more below]
- Series: First But Forgotten
- Author: Tyner, Artika R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669004961
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost
$21.00 Read moreNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist – National Bestseller – A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change th… [more below]
- Author: Hendrickson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1400075351
- Language: English
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The Apartment: A Century of Russian History
$25.99 Read moreIn this picture book from author Alexandra Litvina and illustrator Anna Desnitskaya, 20th-century Russian history comes to life through six generations of a family in their Moscow apartment.
The Apart- Author: Litvina, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1419734032
- Language: English
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The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
$20.00 Read moreThe Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the 1st Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korea
- Author: Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1472824881
- Language: English
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The Good Thieves
$17.99 Add to cart“A dazzling tale of wild hope, lingering grief, admirable self-sufficiency, and intergenerational adoration.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Vita tests her own limits, and readers will thrill a… [more below]- Author: Rundell, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 148141948X
- Language: English
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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: A Century of Honor, 1921-2021
$24.95 Read more- Author: Bigler, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1513642774
- Language: English
