Chronological Period/20th Century
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The Cigar: Carmine Galante, Mafia Terror
$27.00 Read moreFrom the godfathers of American Mafia history, the brutal and blood-stained biography of Carmine Galante, the ruthless Bonnano boss who rose from tenement street thug to masterminding the legendary gl… [more below]
- Author: Dimatteo, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0806542373
- Language: English
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Queen of Clubs
$18.99 Read more- Series: The Queen of Thieves #2
- Author: Marsh, Beezy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063342715
- Language: English
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A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard
$35.00 Read moreIn the years following Brown v. Board of Education, countless Black citizens endured violent resistance and even death while fighting for their constitutional rights. One of those citizens, Clyde Kenn… [more below]
- Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media
- Author: Anderson, Devery S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1496844041
- Language: English
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Martin Luther King, Jr. = Martin Luther King, Jr.
$12.79 Read moreThe Mi Mini Biografia series are Spanish language biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children … [more below]
- Series: Mi Mini Biografía (My Itty-Bitty Bio): My Early Library
- Author: Haldy, Emma E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1534133186
- Language: Spanish
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Everybody: A Book about Freedom
$17.95 Read moreThe body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022027
- Language: English
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Critical Essays: Volume 1: 1944-1948 Volume 1
$30.00 Add to cartThis first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, French think- Series: French List
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 180309060X
- Language: English
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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
$29.95 Read moreEssential reading for the creative writer.
Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art o
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0819567167
- Language: English
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The Limit
$14.95 Read moreA brief, potent, and audaciously written novel about a husband caring for his dying wife, and the shifting nature of their relationship as the end approaches.
Anna, an Englishwoman, has married, quite- Author: Belben, Rosalind
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377527
- Language: English
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All That Trash: The Story of the 1987 Garbage Barge and Our Problem with Stuff
$19.99 Read moreAn ALA Notable Book
“The year was 1987 and a ship full of trash was about to become famous…The narrative is immensely readable…A fresh take on a story of old garbage guaranteed to spark conversati- Author: McCarthy, Meghan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1481477528
- Language: English
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The Black Kids
$12.99 Read moreA New York Times bestseller
“Should be required reading in every classroom.” –Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin
A William C. Morris Award Finalist
“A true love letter to- Author: Hammonds Reed, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1534462732
- Language: English
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The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis
$29.95 Read moreMaud Lewis (1903-1970) was recognized and revered in her own lifetime. She offered her endearing images to the passing world through her roadside sign, “Paintings for Sale,” and was rewarded by the en
- Author: Brooks, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 12 1996
- ISBN10: 1551092174
- Language: English
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Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The Cia’s Murderous Targeting of Sds, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists
$24.95 Add to cartDrugs as Weapons Against Us meticulously details how a group of opium-trafficking families came to form an American oligarchy and eventually achieved global dominance. This oligarchy helped fund the N
- Author: Potash, John L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: May 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1937584925
- Language: English
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The Partnership: George Marshall, Henry Stimson, and the Extraordinary Collaboration That Won World War II
$34.95 Read moreOn September 1, 1939, the day World War II broke out in Europe, Gen. George Marshall was sworn in as chief of staff of the U.S. Army. Ten months later, Roosevelt appointed Henry Stimson secretary of w
- Author: Aldrich, Edward Farley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 081177094X
- Language: English
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A Town Like Alice
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the hugely acclaimed author of On the Beach—a tale of love and war that follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback. – “Entertai… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Shute, Nevil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0307474003
- Language: English
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Personal History: A Memoir
$23.00 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – PULTIZER PRIZE WINNER – The captivating inside story of the woman who helmed the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media: the… [more below]
- Author: Graham, Katharine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: February 24 1998
- ISBN10: 0375701044
- Language: English
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Midnight Without a Moon
$9.99 Read more“A powerful story.” —Kirkus Reviews It’s Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and Rose Lee Carter can’t wait to move north. For now, she’s living with her sharecropper grandparents on a white man’s cot… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Linda Williams
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1328753638
- Language: English
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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley’s Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
$27.95 Read moreHalley’s Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from these primordial
- Author: Goodrich, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888568
- Language: English
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A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the Mexican Drug War
$15.95 Add to cartThe term “Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.
But this diverts attention from the U.S. role- Author: Boullosa, Carmen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1944869123
- Language: English
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Songs in Ursa Major
$17.00 Add to cartA scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969, alive with music, sex, and the trappings of fame.
Raised on an island off Massachusetts by a- Author: Brodie, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0593312376
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
$18.99 Add to cart“Recalls the literature of Americana by John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, Willa Cather, and Hamlin Garland . . . Hansen has broadened our perception of the West in much the same way as the best histor
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hansen, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0061120197
- Language: English
