Chronological Period/20th Century
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Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives
$22.00 Read moreThe variety of LGBTQ life in Chicago is too abundant and too diverse to be contained in a single place. But since 1981, the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives has striven to do just that, amassing a wea… [more below]
- Author: D’Emilio, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 28 2020
- ISBN10: 022672753X
- Language: English
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Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean: Remembering Chinese Scientist Pu Zhelong’s Work for Sustainable Farming
$9.95 Read moreThe narrator is a composite of people Pu Zhelong influenced in his work. With further context from Melanie Chan’s historically precise watercolors, this story will immerse young readers in Chinese cul
- Author: Schmalzer, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0884486354
- Language: English
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Badly Behaved Women: The Story of Modern Feminism
$29.95 Read moreBadly Behaved Women is the illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women’s movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning and the politics of hair to Beyonc , body positivity and #MeToo.
In the
- Author: Crowhurst, Anna-Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0233006222
- Language: English
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75 Years of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
$70.00 Read moreThis pictorial journey will take the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works’ very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follow the program through prototype build-up, first flight and, if
- Author: Goodall, James C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1472846478
- Language: English
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The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia—the gripping story of four CIA agents during the early days of the Cold War–and how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1101911735
- Language: English
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140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan’s Last Chance to Avert Armageddon
$17.99 Read moreOn the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this heart-pounding account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armagedd… [more below]
- Author: Dean Barrett, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1635767520
- Language: English
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Lena and the Burning of Greenwood: A Tulsa Race Massacre Survival Story
$27.99 Read moreIn the early 1920s, the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the wealthiest Black community in the United States. But Tulsa is still a segregated city. “Black Wall Street” and white Tulsa are ver… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Smith, Nikki Shannon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1663990565
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Road
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this “moving and absorbing story” (The A… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Yates, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0375708448
- Language: English
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Silent Honor
$9.99 Read moreFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a moving novel of families separated and lives shattered by prejudice during one of the most shameful episodes in American history.
A man ahe- Author: Steel, Danielle
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 03 1997
- ISBN10: 0440224055
- Language: English
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Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors
$8.99 Read moreKeesia and Henri Matisse have the same birthday–New Year’s Eve That’s why she picks him for her artist report. She finds out that over his long career Matisse made paintings, sculpture, books, costu… [more below]
- Series: Smart about Art
- Author: O’Connor, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 18 2002
- ISBN10: 044842519X
- Language: English
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Blandings Castle
$13.95 Add to cartWelcome to Blandings Castle, home of the well-intentioned but often distracted Lord Emsworth–and there are quite a few distractions at this stately country house. Head gardener Angus McAllister has r
- Author: Wodehouse, P. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0393341623
- Language: English
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The September Six and the Struggle for the Soul of Mormonism
$34.95 Read moreIn the single month of September 1993, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicated or disciplined six of its members. These six individuals-some of them intellectuals, some activist… [more below]
- Author: Patterson, Sara M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1560854669
- Language: English
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Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White
$22.99 Read more6 Starred Reviews! New York Times Bestseller! A People Magazine Best Children’s Book! A Washington Post Best Book! A Publishers Weekly Best Book! Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Award Honor recipien… [more below]
- Author: Sweet, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0544319591
- Language: English
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A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
$7.99 Read moreDecember 7, 1941: A morning like any other, but the events of this day would leave no one untouched.
For Adam, living near Honolulu, this Sunday morning is one he has been looking forward to — fishi- Author: Mazer, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0689841604
- Language: English
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Countdown: Volume 1
$11.99 Read moreFour starred reviews greeted this new, groundbreaking classic from Deborah Wiles
Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that’s hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has d… [more below]
- Series: Sixties Trilogy
- Author: Wiles, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0545106060
- Language: English
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Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives
$30.00 Read moreThe never-before-told story of the extraordinary women behind a trailblazing British magazine.
During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accom- Author: Adams, Jad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147891
- Language: English
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British Pacific Fleet 1944-45: The Royal Navy in the Downfall of Japan
$23.00 Read moreAn illustration-packed new account of the powerful Royal Navy fleet that fought alongside the US Navy throughout the last year of the Pacific War.
The British Pacific Fleet was the Royal Navy’s primar- Series: Fleet
- Author: Herder, Brian Lane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1472856775
- Language: English
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The Thirty-First of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson
$19.95 Read moreAn intimate retelling of Lyndon B. Johnson’s politics and presidency by one of his closest advisors.
Horace Busby was one of LBJ’s most trusted advisors; their close working and personal relationship- Author: Busby, Horace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1477327479
- Language: English
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The Dutch-Indonesian War 1945-49: Armies of the Indonesian War of Independence
$20.00 Read moreHighly detailed and colourful, this account illustrates the struggle of Indonesian forces in their War of Independence against the Netherlands, following the surrender of occupying Japanese forces in
- Series: Men-At-Arms (Osprey) #550
- Author: Lohnstein, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1472854748
- Language: English
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Muerte Bajo El Sol / Evil Under the Sun
$7.95 Add to cartMaldad y venganza se entremezclan en una novela donde nada es lo que parece.
La mejor Agatha Christie desde Los diez negritos . The ObserverUn hotel alejado del caos de la ciudad es el sitio que ha e
- Author: Christie, Agatha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 6070773667
- Language: Spanish
