Chronological Period/20th Century
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Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy
$34.99 Read moreThe definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong.
‘What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation.
What do people talk most about? A Coronation.
What is- Author: Strong, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0008550069
- Language: English
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When Winter Robeson Came
$8.99 Read moreThe whole world seems to transform during the summer of 1965, when Eden’s cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in L.A. just as the Watts Riots erupt, in this stirring new novel by Coretta Scott … [more below]
- Author: Woods, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1524741604
- Language: English
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Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom
$19.99 Read moreA New York Times bestseller
In this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President’s Men and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as- Author: Bernstein, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1250869897
- Language: English
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Anne of the Island
$19.99 Read moreAnne Shirley is off to college in this artfully packaged edition of the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series.
Anne is finally off to Redmond College! While she’s sad to be leaving Marilla and- Series: Anne of Green Gables Novel
- Author: Montgomery, L. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1442490055
- Language: English
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Somerset
$17.99 Add to cartGone with the Wind meets The Help in the stunning prequel to Leila Meacham’s bestselling family epic Roses.
“From birth, Jessica had eschewed the role to which she’d been born. Was it because she sen- Author: Meacham, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1455547395
- Language: English
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Lillian Trasher: The Greatest Wonder in Egypt
$11.99 Read moreWhen Lillian Trasher founded Egypt’s first orphanage, others thought that a lone American woman with no means of support would surely be killed or starve to death. But Lillian – certain of God’s guida… [more below]
- Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1576583058
- Language: English
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Fear: A Novel of World War I
$19.95 Read moreA NYRB Classics Original
A young soldier learns the true meaning of fear amidst the carnage of World War I in this literary masterpiece and “one of
Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Chevallier, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177169
- Language: English
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Black Music
$18.95 Read more“Baraka writes with the passion and lyricism that can only come from a jazz critic who is uncompromisingly invested in the social and aesthetic dimensions of the music.” —WBGO (Newark Public Radio)
In
- Series: Akashiclassics: Renegade Reprint
- Author: Jones (Amiri Baraka), Leroi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1933354933
- Language: English
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The Skylark’s Secret
$14.95 Read moreLoch Ewe, 1940. When gamekeeper’s daughter Flora’s remote highland village finds itself the base for the Royal Navy’s Arctic convoys, life in her close-knit community changes forever. In defiance of h
- Author: Valpy, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1542005159
- Language: English
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Claudette Colvin Refuses to Move: Courageous Kid of the Civil Rights Movement
$8.99 Read moreIt’s March 2, 1955, and an ordinary 15-year-old girl from Montgomery, Alabama is about to do something extraordinary. When a white bus driver orders Claudette Colvin to give up her seat for a white pa… [more below]
- Series: Courageous Kids
- Author: Wilkins, Ebony Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496688031
- Language: English
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World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story
$16.99 Read moreCo-written by a New York Times best-selling author, this moving story of a Muslim boy’s exile from war-torn Bosnia to the United States offers a riveting refugee saga.
Kenan loves drawing and- Author: Trebincevic, Kenan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0358439876
- Language: English
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So Happy Together
$16.95 Read moreAs her stultifying marriage is unravelling, and in the midst of mourning
the loss of her creative self, Caro Tanner has a nightmare about Peter,
an old love whom she hasn’t seen in twenty years. She … [more below]- Author: Shepherd, Deborah K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1647420261
- Language: English
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
$21.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of t… [more below]
- Author: Carter, Zachary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0525509054
- Language: English
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The Ionian Mission
$15.95 Read moreJack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy’s blockade of… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #8
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0393881741
- Language: English
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Speak Up, Speak Out!: The Extraordinary Life of Fighting Shirley Chisholm
$17.99 Read more“A biography of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first Black woman to run for president with a major political party”–
- Author: Bolden, Tonya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1426372361
- Language: English
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The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement
$18.95 Read moreAn authoritative history of the overlooked youth activists that spearheaded the largest protests of the Civil Rights Movement and set the blueprint for future generations of activists to follow.
Some- Author: Franklin, V. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0807055433
- Language: English
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The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
$24.95 Read moreA narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it
The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation sha- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Reed, Adolph L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1839766263
- Language: English
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Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
$32.00 Add to cart*The instant New York Times bestseller*
The untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II–all Medal of Honor recipients–from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler’s own mount- Author: Kershaw, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593556399
- Language: English
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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
$22.00 Add to cartNearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035986
- Language: English
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Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World
$29.95 Read moreA New Yorker Best Book of the Year
The remarkable life of violinist and teacher Shinichi Suzuki, who pioneered an innovative but often-misunderstood philosophy of early childhood education–now known- Author: Hotta, Eri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0674238230
- Language: English
