Chronological Period/20th Century
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Flor Fights Back: A Stonewall Riots Survival Story
$27.99 Read moreAfter Flor’s mother dies in early 1969, she is left with her grandmother who refuses to accept Flor’s identity as a trans girl. Flor decides that in order to be true to herself, she must leave home. S… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Ellison, Joy Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669013944
- Language: English
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Unraveling the Myth of Sgt. Alvin York: The Other Sixteen
$32.95 Read moreOn October 8, 1918, seventeen soldiers from the 82nd Division, American Expeditionary Force, led by acting Sgt. Bernard Early, flanked a German machine gun nest that had inundated their unit with wit
- Series: C. A. Brannen
- Author: Gregory, James Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1648430759
- Language: English
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Nimitz
$33.95 Read moreCalled a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, first published in 1976 and now available in paperback for the firs… [more below]
- Author: Potter, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 15 2008
- ISBN10: 1591145805
- Language: English
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The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant Story
$9.95 Read moreA portrait of the Finnish immigrant experience in Minnesota during the early twentieth century–now in paperback
After journeying across the Atlantic with his mother and two sisters, young Otto Pelto- Author: Durbin, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1517910463
- Language: English
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The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era
$30.00 Read moreThe Black Fives is a groundbreaking, timely history of the largely unknown early days of Black basketball, bringing to life the trailblazing players, teams, and impresarios who made the game.
“For a g- Author: Johnson, Claude
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1419744364
- Language: English
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Soldier Dogs: Heroes on the Home Front
$9.99 Read moreTwin siblings give their dog to the Coast Guard during WWII only to discover a German threat in their hometown. The sixth book in the action-packed Soldier Dogs series that’s perfect for fans of Hero
- Series: Soldier Dogs #6
- Author: Sutter, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 006295797X
- Language: English
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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
$19.99 Read more“A literate exploration of why we use–or mangle–our native tongue.”–USA Today
Bill Bryson celebrates America’s magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western ha
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 23 2001
- ISBN10: 0380713810
- Language: English
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Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
$16.99 Read moreFirst published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay’s distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artis
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0393322394
- Language: English
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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
$18.99 Read moreWe know it simply as “the pill,” yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig’s masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a ch
- Author: Eig, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351890
- Language: English
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Every Farm Tells a Story: A Tale of Family Values
$15.95 Read moreJerry Apps details the virtues and hardships of rural living.
“Do your chores without complaining. Show up on time. Do every job well. Always try to do better. Never stop learning. Next year will be- Author: Apps, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0870208632
- Language: English
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Immigrant Architect: Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream
$9.95 Read moreRafael Guastavino Sr. was 39 when he left a successful career as an architect in Barcelona. American cities–densely packed and built largely of wood–were experiencing horrific fires, and Guastavino
- Author: de Miguel, Berta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0884488136
- Language: English
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The Gates of Zion
$18.99 Add to cartThe Zion Chronicles series covers the events surrounding Israel’s statehood in 1948. Each book vividly portrays the intense struggle of the Jewish people in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the forc… [more below]
- Series: Zion Chronicles #1
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1414301022
- Language: English
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Aim for the Skies: Jerrie Mock and Joan Merriam Smith’s Race to Complete Amelia Earhart’s Quest
$16.99 Read moreWhen she was seven years old, Geraldine (Jerrie) Mock took her first airplane ride. She decided then and there to be a pilot. Growing up, she was inspired by radio broadcasts detailing the travels of … [more below]
- Author: Bissonette, Aimee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1585363812
- Language: English
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The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
$18.95 Read moreExtraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Dramatically c… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494929
- Language: English
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The Yellow Admiral
$15.95 Read moreLife ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O’Brian’s best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable thou… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #18
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021705
- Language: English
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The Hundred Days
$15.95 Read moreNapoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #19
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021713
- Language: English
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Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words
$29.99 Read moreDrawing on historical documents and exclusive interviews, authors tell the inspiring story of Clarence Thomas’s rise from a childhood of poverty and prejudice in the segregated South to Supreme Court … [more below]
- Author: Pack, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1684512700
- Language: English
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The Zimmermann Telegram: America Enters the War, 1917-1918; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series
$21.00 Add to cart“A tremendous tale of hushed and unhushed uproars in the linked fields of war and diplomacy” (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August
In January 1917, the war- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 12 1985
- ISBN10: 0345324250
- Language: English
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Negroland: A Memoir
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural c… [more below]
- Author: Jefferson, Margo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0307473430
- Language: English
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
$17.95 Read moreIn this “penetrating new analysis” (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs
- Author: Katznelson, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328511
- Language: English
