Chronological Period/20th Century
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Nelson Mandela
$19.99 Read moreThis stunning picture book biography of Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson is a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Honor award.
In this lush, acclaimed book, award-winning author-illustrator Kadir Nelson
- Author: Nelson, Kadir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0061783749
- Language: English
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Las Guerras de Los Mi?rcoles / The Wednesday Wars
$12.95 Read moreNovela ganadora del Newbery Honor
Holling Hoodhood est? en problemas. Acaba de comenzar el s?ptimo grado con la se?ora Baker, y presiente que la maestra tiene algo en su contra. Por qu? otra raz?n lo… [more below]- Author: Schmidt, Gary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1644736802
- Language: Spanish
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Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations
$27.95 Read moreThe poignant rise and fall of an idealistic immigrant who, as CEO of a major conglomerate, tried to change the way America did business before he himself was swallowed up by corporate corruption.
At 8- Author: Garcia, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0674980808
- Language: English
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The Bulldog Detective: William J. Flynn and America’s First War Against the Mafia, Spies, and Terrorists
$29.95 Read moreAmerica in the early twentieth century was rife with threats. Organized crime groups like the Mafia, German spies embedded behind enemy lines ahead of World War I, package bombs sent throughout the co
- Author: Simon, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1633888657
- Language: English
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His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina
$18.00 Read moreAt once a loving legacy and an unsparing depiction of a devastating illness, Danielle Steel’s tribute to her lost son is a gift of life, hope, healing, and understanding to us all.
“This is the story- Author: Steel, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2000
- ISBN10: 0385334672
- Language: English
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A Plague on Both Your Houses: A Novel in the Shadow of the Russian Mafia
$26.99 Read moreA brand-new novel from New York Times bestselling author Robert Littell, A Plague on Both Your Houses is a thrilling tale of love and war.
On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minu
- Author: Littell, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79821E+12
- Language: English
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The Fifties: An Underground History
$17.99 Add to cartAn “exciting and enlightening revisionist history” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, br… [more below]
- Author: Gaines, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1439101647
- Language: English
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Flight from Chile: An Oral History of Exile
$41.58 Add to cart2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of General Pinochet’s coup on September 11, 1973. During the wave of mass arrests, torture, and executions that followed, people began fleeing Chile. Over the next … [more below]
- Author: Wright, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826365485
- Language: English
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The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina
$17.60 Read moreIt has long been known that Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and many other Nazi war criminals found refuge in Argentina. In this book, a courageous Argentinian writer shows exactly how it
- Author: Goni, Uki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1783789255
- Language: English
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The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
$22.00 Add to cart“Relying on a rich cache of previously classified notes, transcripts, cables, policy briefs, and memoranda, Andrew Cooper explains how oil drove, even corrupted, American foreign policy during a time … [more below]
- Author: Cooper, Andrew Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1439155186
- Language: English
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
$23.99 Add to cartNow with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the Civil Rights Era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institu… [more below]
- Author: McWhorter, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1476709513
- Language: English
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Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
$19.95 Add to cartThe resistance of great Native American warriors to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great r… [more below]
- Author: Burnham, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 149620767X
- Language: English
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The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$15.99 Add to cartCreated as a living memorial to the philosophies and ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this essential volume includes more than 120 quotations from the greatest civil rights leader’s speeches, ser
- Series: Newmarket Words of
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 19 2001
- ISBN10: 155704483X
- Language: English
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Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland
$25.99 Add to cartA candid and brutal account of murder, abduction, and violence during the Troubles in Northern Ireland-from two men on opposite sides of the conflict.
After ‘the long war’ in Ireland came to an end,- Author: Moloney, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1586489321
- Language: English
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Falling Off a Cliff: The Story of a Mountain Nurse
$18.70 Add to cartTwo women, a generation apart and from two different worlds, are driven by a passion to heal. Will one have her innocence shattered and the other be forever haunted by an unanswered mystery?
Time, lik
- Author: Senehi, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1736016814
- Language: English
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Apocalypse Ready: The Manual of Manuals; A Century of Panic Prevention
$35.00 Add to cartGlobal warming continues to cause extreme weather events and threatens to destroy the planet, while the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us that disaster can manifest at any time. These an
- Author: Young, Taras
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0500024316
- Language: English
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A Man of Modern Letters
$19.95 Add to cartThe Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society called for a new wave in the arts, a dismantling of past
- Series: Hemingway and the Rise of Modern Literature #2
- Author: McLallen, Wylie Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065282
- Language: English
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Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
$21.99 Add to cart“The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.” –H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)
- Author: McMaster, H. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929081
- Language: English
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Cocaine Blues: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
$15.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Cocaine Blues, the first historical mystery featuring the sensual, posh, and intrepid murder detective Phryne Fisher…
“Phryne can not get
- Series: Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback) #1
- Author: Greenwood, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 17 2011
- ISBN10: 159058385X
- Language: English
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Buck ‘Em!: The Autobiography of Buck Owens
$29.98 Add to cartBUCK ‘EM!: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BUCK OWENS
- Author: Poe, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1617136417
- Language: English
