Chronological Period/20th Century
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Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir
$25.95 Add to cartUprooted from her childhood in Germany and set adrift in the American Midwest, Maureen was raised by a kind but neglectful mother who loved Jesus more than her own child and a stern, disinterested gra… [more below]
- Author: Burdock, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1637790368
- Language: English
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I Could Never Be So Lucky Again
$8.99 Read moreAfter Pearl Harbor, he led America’s flight to victory
As a stunt pilot, he thrilled the world with his aerial acrobatics. As a sci
General Doolittle is a giant of the twentieth century. He did it all.- Author: Doolittle, James
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 24 2001
- ISBN10: 0553584642
- Language: English
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The Passover Guest
$8.99 Read moreMuriel’s family can’t afford a Passover seder this year– but an act of kindness and a mysterious stranger change everything.
It’s the spring of 1933 in Washington, D.C., and the Great Depression is h- Author: Kusel, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0823453227
- Language: English
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Hollywatts: From the Promised Land to Purgatory
$16.95 Read more“Madness embraces us / There is no rest / Fighting for a cause / Without reason or test.” The Great Migration of the 1910s – 1940s was both a flight and a pursuit, as African Americans moved north and… [more below]
- Author: Jr. Cribbs, Arthur Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0829800379
- Language: English
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La Noche de Tlatelolco / The Night of Tlatelolco
$22.95 Add to cartEl 2 de octubre no se olvida. A partir de testimonios de v?ctimas, estudiantes, maestros, padres de familia, periodistas, intelectuales, as? como de agentes del estado opresor y de quienes no simpatiz
- Author: Poniatowska, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 6073900589
- Language: Spanish
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B. R. Ambedkar: The Man Who Gave Hope to India’s Dispossessed
$24.95 Read moreA household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country’s most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly indepen
- Series: Global Icons
- Author: Tharoor, Shashi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1526173581
- Language: English
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Walking on Fire
$17.95 Read moreGreece. Politics. Love. Danger. Reeling from a failed marriage and spurred on by a burgeoning sense of feminism, twenty-five-year-old Kate accepts a position as a speech therapist in a center for chil… [more below]
- Author: Crawley, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1647424380
- Language: English
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Courtney Changes the Game
$7.99 Read moreCourtney Moore is the best gamer at the arcade. But she can’t understand why there aren’t more girl characters. When Courtney imagines her own video game, the hero is a girl who knows how to handle an… [more below]
- Series: American Girl(r) Historical Characters
- Author: Hertz, Kellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1683371690
- Language: English
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The Degenerates
$11.99 Add to cart“Respectful, unflinching, and eye-opening.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Historical fiction that not only depicts a cruel, horrifying reality but also the strength and courage of the people who had to endure it.… [more below]- Author: Mann, J. Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1534419365
- Language: English
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Burmese Days
$12.00 Read moreIn the Burmese provincial town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory – a thirty-something English teak dealer – leads a life of quiet disillusionment, hardly mixing with the natives or the expat co
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1847498809
- Language: English
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The Beautiful and Damned
$12.99 Read moreTwenty-five-year-old Anthony Patch appears to have it all: a Harvard education, an apartment in New York City, memberships at all of the best clubs, and a generous trust fund to draw from. Sure, his g… [more below]
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172272
- Language: English
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women, here is the true story of the one-hundred-year-odyssey of the author’s Chinese-American family, combining years of research with “fascinating fa… [more below]
- Author: See, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0307950395
- Language: English
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Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
$36.00 Add to cartFragments is an event–an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe
- Author: Monroe, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533784
- Language: English
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The Age of Innocence
$11.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the c- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 02 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753206
- Language: English
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Invasion on: D-Day, the Press, and the Making of an American Narrative
$39.95 Read moreIn Invasion On Stephen M. Rusiecki describes the process of how and why Americans developed a standing narrative of the World War II operation known as D-Day based upon a common, press-enabled, themat… [more below]
- Author: Rusiecki, Stephen M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 168247920X
- Language: English
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How It Happened! Pizza: The Cool Stories and Facts Behind Every Slice
$12.99 Read moreFind out how pizza became the world’s favorite comfort food in this nonfiction book, part of the HOW IT HAPPENED! Series.
Did you know that every hour, more than one million slices of pizza are eate- Series: How It Happened
- Author: Towler, Paige
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1454945141
- Language: English
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Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
$31.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography – Winner of the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize – Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western
- Author: Jackson, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1250141257
- Language: English
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Albert Einstein: A Curious Mind
$5.99 Read moreAlbert Einstein was a famous scientist who questioned everything–even the laws of physics Einstein’s innovative thinking paved the way for many important inventions and discoveries that helped shape
- Series: I Can Read Level 2
- Author: Albee, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0062432699
- Language: English
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Summer of the Tree Army: A Civilian Conservation Corps Story
$17.99 Read moreWhen young Charlie Brightelot first spies the mysterious barracks in the woods near his home, he’s not sure what to think. His father explains that the barracks will soon house young men serving in th… [more below]
- Series: Tales of Young Americans
- Author: Whelan, Gloria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1585363855
- Language: English
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The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Volume 2 – Showdown in the North-West
$29.95 Read more“Helion’s picture-packed volume sports dozens of rare photos. Seventeen color vehicle plates, three aircraft profiles, unit heraldry, and uniform art survey the conflict’s modeling possibilities.” — … [more below]
- Series: Asia@War
- Author: Rikhye, Ravi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1914059344
- Language: English
