Chronological Period/20th Century
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end o
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06, 2019
- ISBN10: 1101904216
- Language: English
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Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream
$27.99 Add to cartThe real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of an American icon
“”Riveting… Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages.””-Newark Star Ledger
“”Like it or not, Hugh Hefner has affected all
- Author: Watts, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: August 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 1684421705
- Language: English
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The Flame Bearer
$16.99 Add to cartThe tenth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)–the basis for
- Series: Saxon Tales #10
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0062250809
- Language: English
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To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton
$16.95 Add to cartA fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America.
Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those interested in th
- Author: Newton, Huey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0872865290
- Language: English
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Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination
$16.99 Add to cartA New York Times Best Seller
Richard Belzer and David Wayne are back to set the record straight after Dead Wrong; this time they’re going to uncover the truth about the many witness deaths tied to th- Author: Belzer, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 07, 2016
- ISBN10: 1634508521
- Language: English
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Education of a Felon: A Memoir
$24.00 Add to cartIn Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was–at seventeen–the
- Author: Bunker, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0312280769
- Language: English
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Water for Elephants
$19.99 Add to cartOver 10 million copies sold worldwide * Now A Broadway Musical Starring Grant Gustin and Isabella McCalla
#1 New York Times Bestseller * A Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Bestsell- Author: Gruen, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1565125606
- Language: English
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Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
$21.99 Add to cartIt has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still very much alive for his fans everywhere. Charles R. Cross vividly recounts the life of Hendrix, from… [more below]
- Author: Cross, Charles R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0786888415
- Language: English
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
$25.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of … [more below]
- Author: Yergin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1439110123
- Language: English
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
$20.00 Add to cartThis groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow o
- Author: Blackmon, Douglas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0385722702
- Language: English
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The Lost Wife
$18.00 Add to cartA rapturous novel of star-crossed love in a time of war–from the international bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds.
During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art studen- Author: Richman, Alyson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 042524413X
- Language: English
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The Secret Midwife
$16.99 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of The London Girls comes a story of courage and resilience amidst the horror of Auschwitz–and one woman’s last chance to share it with the world.
London, 1995: When on th
- Author: Lane, Soraya M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1662504063
- Language: English
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Henri’s Scissors
$19.99 Add to cartStep into the colorful world of Henri Matisse and his magnificent paper cutouts in this biography by acclaimed picture book creator Jeanette Winter.
In a small weaving town in France, a young boy name- Author: Winter, Jeanette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 1442464844
- Language: English
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Her Last Betrayal
$16.99 Read more“A gripping and thrilling tale….INCREDIBLE!.” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
When working for the British Secret Service, Sarah Gillespie can trust no one, not even he
- Author: Lecky, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0008464871
- Language: English
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Murder and Mendelssohn
$14.99 Read moreFrom the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Murder and Mendelssohn, the next murder mystery novel featuring the unstoppable, elegant amateur sleuth. To the accompaniment of heavenly
- Series: Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback) #20
- Author: Greenwood, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1464202486
- Language: English
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Former People
$36.00 Add to cartThe riveting and harrowing story of the Russian nobility caught in the upheaval of the Revolution
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Kansas City Star an- Author: Smith, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037794
- Language: English
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The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence & International Fascism
$24.95 Add to cartIn this new edition of a cult classic, Henrik Kr?er and Jerry Meldon have added new material and provided updates of the investigations
Danish investigative author Henrik Kr?er set out to write a book- Author: Kr?ger, Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1634240189
- Language: English
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1968: The Year That Rocked the World
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world.”–Dan Rather
To some- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0345455827
- Language: English
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
$8.99 Add to cartSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING THE CROWN‘S EMMA CORRIN AND UNBROKEN‘S JACK O’CONNELL
Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence’s last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth cen- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0553212621
- Language: English
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Conundrum
$16.95 Add to cartOne of the first-ever books on gender transition, this poignant memoir by a trans woman is “the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex” (Newsweek).
“A profound… [more below]- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Morris, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 16 2006
- ISBN10: 1590171896
- Language: English
