Chronological Period/20th Century
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Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
$32.00 Add to cartThe compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation’s cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight
Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities.- Author: Sandoval-Strausz, A. K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1541697243
- Language: English
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Land of Love and Drowning
$17.00 Add to cartA critically acclaimed debut from an award-winning writer–an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands.
In the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from- Author: Yanique, Tiphanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1594633819
- Language: English
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To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
$25.00 Read more“Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air.” –NPR
In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation “as specu
- Series: Bagley Wright Lecture
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1940696615
- Language: English
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The Untold History of the United States
$25.00 Read more“Indispensable…There is much here to reflect upon.” –President Mikhail Gorbachev
“As riveting, eye-opening, and thought-provoking as any history book you will ever read…Can’t recommend it highly- Author: Stone, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1982102535
- Language: English
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Últimos DÃas En BerlÃn
$22.95 Read moreCuando el amor y la esperanza son más poderosos que el odio y la furia.
Cuando Yuri Santacruz asistió al nombramiento como canciller de Adolf Hitler, no podÃa imaginar lo mucho que cambiarÃa su vid
- Author: Sánchez-Garnica, Paloma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 6070783123
- Language: Spanish
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The Prince of Steel Pier
$9.99 Read moreWinner of the National Jewish Book Award
A Sydney Taylor Notable Book
Tablet Magazine’s Best Jewish Kids Books of the Year
A young teen falls in with the mob, and learns a lesson about what
- Author: Nockowitz, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1728430348
- Language: English
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Cosechando Esperanza: La Historia de Cesar Chavez
$9.99 Read moreWhen Cesar Chavez led a 340-mile peaceful protest march through California, he ignited a cause and improved the lives of thousands of migrant farmworkers. But he wasn’t always a leader. As a boy he wa
- Author: Krull, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0152051694
- Language: Spanish
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The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution (2nd Ed)
$29.99 Read moreSuppression of the truth and the rise of propaganda. Refugees, killing squads, and gulags. Intentionally created chaos, destruction, famine, persecution — and mass death. These are the dark fruits of
- Author: Carroll, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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F-104 Starfighter: Lockheed’s Sleek Cold War Interceptor
$24.99 Read moreLockheed developed the F-104 Starfighter in the late 1950s. The plane was designed to be an all-weather interceptor. Speed, climb, and altitude all were priorities, and the plane did turn out to be ex… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation #65
- Author: Doyle, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0764367862
- Language: English
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The Diver
$19.00 Read moreMarta doesn’t mean to kill her husband. In fact, she hardly believes that he’s dead. After a dramatic accident leaves him drowned at the bottom of Lake Michigan, she embarks on a grief-fueled descent … [more below]
- Author: Knight, Samsun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 237
- Publish Date: November 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1609389271
- Language: English
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The County Line
$16.99 Read moreFrom Steve Weddle, the author who the New York Times calls “downright dazzling,” comes the story of a prodigal son returning home to hard times and harder choices during the Great Depression.
Life has
- Author: Weddle, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 301
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 166251526X
- Language: English
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Quotations of Martin Luther King
$9.95 Read moreThis pocket-sized hardcover book contains nearly one hundred quotations from leading civil rights activist and American Baptist minister, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. King was a central figure … [more below]
- Series: Quotations of Great Americans
- Author: King, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1557099472
- Language: English
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In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power
$18.00 Add to cartExplores the distinctive instruments of American ascent to global domination and hegemony–including covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and surveillance.
- Series: Dispatch Books
- Author: McCoy, Alfred W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 359
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1608467732
- Language: English
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Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
$9.99 Read moreA lyrical picture book biography of John Coltrane that focuses on his childhood.
Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot to hear, growing up in the south during the 1930s: church songs,- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 125082270X
- Language: English
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War of Intervention in Angola: Volume 5: Angolan and Cuban Air Forces, 1987-1992
$29.95 Read moreThrough late 1987 and early 1988, the battlefields of southern Angola moved ever further away from the border with South West Africa/Namibia, until the showdown between the Soviet and Cuban-supported … [more below]
- Series: Africa@War
- Author: Fontanellaz, Adrien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: June 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1915070554
- Language: English
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Child of the Civil Rights Movement
$8.99 Read moreIn this Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child’s unique perspective to an important chap… [more below]
- Author: Shelton, Paula Young
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: July 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0385376065
- Language: English
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Rural Iowa Sausage: History & Tradition of Brats on the Back Roads
$24.99 Read moreAn Iowa Tradition Like No Other
In the 1970s, there were around 450 local meat lockers throughout the state of Iowa. Today, there are little more than 100 left. History is finally back on their sid
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Goodvin, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467148547
- Language: English
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Shadows We Carry
$17.95 Read moreIn this sequel to the award-winning post-Holocaust novel The Takeaway Men, the Lubinski twins struggle with their roles as women and coming to terms with their family’s Holocaust legacy at the same ti… [more below]
- Author: Ain, Meryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1684632005
- Language: English
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Daughter Dalloway
$27.99 Read morePerfect for fans of Marie Benedict and Ren馥 Rosen, Daughter Dalloway is both an homage to the Virginia Woolf classic and a brilliant spin-off–the empowering, rebellious coming-of-age story of Mrs.
- Author: France, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9.7982E+12
- Language: English
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1919 the Year That Changed America
$24.99 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
1919 was a world-shaking year. America was recovering from World War I and black soldiers returned to racism so violent that that summer would become known as th- Author: Sandler, Martin W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1681198010
- Language: English
