Chronological Period/20th Century
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The President Has Been Shot!: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
$18.99 Read moreA YALSA-ALA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award Finalist
A breathtaking and dramatic account of the JFK assassination by the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Lincoln’s Killer.
In his
- Author: Swanson, James L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0545490073
- Language: English
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Seven Types of Ambiguity
$16.95 Read moreRevised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes “any verbal nuance, however slight, w… [more below]
- Author: Empson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 17 1966
- ISBN10: 081120037X
- Language: English
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The Korean War: A History
$22.00 Add to cartA BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED
For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Cumings, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 12 2011
- ISBN10: 081297896X
- Language: English
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Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918-40
$35.00 Read moreA compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain.
‘Both [authors] are former soldiers,- Author: Dannatt, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1472860861
- Language: English
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The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
$40.83 Add to cartRevised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup–“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New Yorker).
Published to commemorate the fortiet- Author: Kornbluh, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1595589120
- Language: English
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Rebecca: Lights, Camera, Rebecca!
$7.99 Read moreFor her tenth birthday, Rebecca is invited to visit her cousin Max’s movie studio! When the cameras begin to roll, she finds herself unexpectedly presented with a part to play. Rebecca doesn’t have th… [more below]
- Series: American Girl Historical Characters
- Author: Greene, Jacqueline Dembar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1683371453
- Language: English
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LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy: A Coalescence of Interests
$19.95 Add to cartBest-selling, Oxford-educated investigative author Joseph P. Farrell takes on the Kennedy assassination and the involvement of Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Texas “machine” that he controlled. Farrell… [more below]
- Author: Farrell, Joseph P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1935487183
- Language: English
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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
$19.00 Read more*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography*
*Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography*
*Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize*
“Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self… [more below]- Author: Packer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 030794817X
- Language: English
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Willa of Dark Hollow
$17.99 Read moreThis enchanting companion to Robert Beatty’s instant #1 New York Times bestseller Willa of the Wood is perfect for any reader who cares deeply about the natural world.
Willa and her clan are the las- Series: Willa of the Wood #2
- Author: Beatty, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1368007600
- Language: English
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Courtney Friendship Superhero
$7.99 Read moreCourtney’s suited up for an epic adventure — just like Crystal Starshooter, the video game hero she invented. Crystal is brave and bold and doesn’t back down. Courtney tries to be the same in real li… [more below]
- Series: American Girl(r) Historical Characters
- Author: Hertz, Kellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1683371704
- Language: English
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The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks: Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland
$23.99 Read moreIn the summer of 1967, nineteen-year-old Brenda Joyce Holland disappeared. She was a mountain girl who had come to Manteo to work in the outdoor drama The Lost Colony. Her body was found five days lat… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Railey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1467147397
- Language: English
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Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby
$21.99 Add to cartThe incredible story of one of America’s most publicized–and surprising–criminal trials in history.
No crime in history had more eyewitnesses. On November 24, 1963, two days after the killing of P- Author: Abrams, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1335469524
- Language: English
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How High the Moon
$8.99 Add to cartTo Kill a Mockingbird meets One Crazy Summer in this powerful, bittersweet debut about one girl’s journey to reconnect with her mother and learn the truth about her father in the tumultuous times of t… [more below]
- Author: Parsons, Karyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 316484016
- Language: English
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Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
$24.00 Read more“An exemplary biography–exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed.” —The Wall Street Journal
The de… [more below]- Author: Whyte, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 030774387X
- Language: English
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All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
$18.99 Add to cartArchetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these
- Author: Gessner, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352374
- Language: English
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Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
$21.95 Add to cartCundill Prize Finalist
“Superbly original…Breaks new ground by showing how a collective consciousness emerged among revolutio
An Economist Best Book of the Year
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year- Author: Harper, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 067429212X
- Language: English
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Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman
$8.99 Read moreWhen Bessie Coleman was a child, she wanted to be in school — not in the cotton fields of Texas, helping her family earn money. She wanted to be somebody significant in the world. So Bessie did every… [more below]
- Author: Borden, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0689864620
- Language: English
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Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1975-90: The Ultimate Generation of Cold War Heavy Armor
$20.00 Read moreA comprehensive, illustrated account of the new generation of advanced tanks to emerge during the last 15 years of the Cold War, showcasing major improvements in armor protection, gunsights, and fire
- Series: New Vanguard #323
- Author: Zaloga, Steven J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1472853806
- Language: English
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A Fashionable Fatality
$26.00 Read moreSet in the Downton Abbey era of post-WW1 England, Alyssa Maxwell’s latest historical mystery finds sleuthing duo Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s maid, Eva Huntford, investigating a murder at a hous… [more below]
- Series: Lady and Lady’s Maid Mystery
- Author: Maxwell, Alyssa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1496734912
- Language: English
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Bud, Not Buddy
$33.33 Read more- Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1432850466
- Language: English
