#hardcover #horror #fiction #vampires #fantasy #historical #Gothic #paranormal #supernatural #20thcentury

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

The Secret History of Byron

The famed poet Lord Byron comes to life with incendiary brilliance in this ingenious and entertaining brew of sensationalism and scholarship (Sunday Times London), enhanced by vivid period settings that evoke Caleb Carr's The Alienist. Wandering with his friend Hobhouse in Greece, Byron embarks on a life of adventure even his genius could not have forseen--that of the world's most formidable vampire.

Lord of the Dead

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#hardcover #history #fiction #nonfiction #eriklarson #20thcentury #biographical #thunderstruck

California

A portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled to America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communication--as the new technology is used to capture a killer.

Thunderstruck

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Some slight shelf wear to dust jacket. #history #hospitalityindustry #19thcentury #savoyhotel #London #20thcentury #luxelife #hotelritz #hardcover 

Ohio

The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class

In early August 1889, Cesar Ritz, a Swiss hotelier highly regarded for his exquisite taste, found himself at the Savoy Hotel in London. He had come at the request of Richard D'Oyly Carte, the financier of Gilbert & Sullivan's comic operas, who had modernized theater and was now looking to create the world's best hotel. D'Oyly Carte soon seduced Ritz to move to London with his team, which included Auguste Escoffier, the chef de cuisine known for his elevated, original dishes. The result was a hotel and restaurant like no one had ever experienced, run in often mysterious and always extravagant ways--which created quite a scandal once exposed.
Barr deftly re-creates the thrilling Belle Epoque era just before World War I, when British aristocracy was at its peak, women began dining out unaccompanied by men, and American nouveaux riches and gauche industrialists convened in London to show off their wealth. In their collaboration at the still celebrated Savoy Hotel, where they welcomed loyal and sometimes salacious clients, such as Oscar Wilde and Sarah Bernhardt, Escoffier created the modern kitchen brigade and codified French cuisine for the ages in his seminal Le Guide culinaire, which remains in print today, and Ritz, whose name continues to grace the finest hotels across the world, created the world's first luxury hotel. The pair also ruffled more than a few feathers in the process. Fine dining would never be the same--or more intriguing.

Ritz and Escoffier

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#nonfiction #history #biography #AmericanHistory #20thCentury #Womens #Politics #Historical #BiographyMemoir #hardcover 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill

Jackie, Janet & Lee

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#paperback #novel #storytelling #family #20thcentury #rurallife #fiction #homestead #Wales #familyfiction

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

A Novel

A complex family with a tortured secret, the Hamers live on a large homestead in Radnorshire, Wales. Idris, the unbending patriarch and tyrant of the family, is a man suspicious of any change. Etty, his indomitable wife, is a woman born into a world unequipped to deal with her. Oliver, their only son, is a junior boxing champion turned hellraising local legend. A novel concerned both with the huge changes of 20th-century rural life, and that life in its eternal details.

Addlands

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#hardcover #reminisce #americana #photographs #nostalgia #20thcentury

This book is in like new condition with no wear to the spine or binding. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers have no wear or damage.

Minnesota

Memories, milestones, and everyday life from America's family album

Pictures from the Past 

#paperback #fiction #classic #southerngothic #school #literature #southern #20thcentury #american #classics 

The Sound and the Fury

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#paperback #classics #20thcentury #britishliterature #europeanliterature #feminism #fiction #literaryfiction 
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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Idaho

Presents a poignant portrayal of the thoughts and events that comprise one day in a woman's life as Clarissa Dalloway makes preparations for a party she is hosting later in the evening, in an annotated edition of the classic novel. Reprint

Mrs. Dalloway (annotated)

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Maryland

A Journey into the Heart of the Twentieth Century

The author of the The Children’s Blizzard delivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish family In tracing the roots of this family—his own family—Laskin captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century. A modern-day scribe, Laskin honors the traditions, the lives, and the choices of his ancestors: revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, scholars and farmers, tycoons and truck drivers. The Family is a deeply personal, dramatic, and emotional account of people caught in a cataclysmic time in world history. A century and a half ago, a Torah scribe and his wife raised six children in a yeshivatown at the western fringe of the Russian empire. Bound by their customs and ancient faith, the pious couple expected their sons and daughter to carry family traditions into future generations. But the social and political crises of our time decreed otherwise. The torrent of history took the scribe’s family down three very different roads. One branch immigrated to America and founded the fabulously successful Maidenform Bra Company; another went to Palestine as pioneers and participated in the contentious birth of the state of Israel; the third branch remained in Europe and suffered the onslaught of the Nazi occupation. With cinematic power and beauty, bestselling author David Laskin brings to life the upheavals of the twentieth century through the story of one family, three continents, two world wars, and the rise and fall of nations.

The Family

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The Other Half of History

⭐ Women in Peace and War, 1900-1945

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 #20thCentury #HistoricalRomance
 #WomensdomesticLifeFiction #womensfiction #domesticfiction #lifefiction

Illinois

Nicola Harrison's The Show Girl gives a glimpse of the glamorous world of the Ziegfeld Follies, through the eyes of a young midwestern woman who comes to New York City to find her destiny as a Ziegfeld Follies star.

"Fans of Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls will drink this up." --Booklist

It's 1927 when Olive McCormick moves from Minneapolis to New York City determined to become a star in the Ziegfeld Follies. Extremely talented as a singer and dancer, it takes every bit of perseverance to finally make it on stage. And once she does, all the glamour and excitement is everything she imagined and more--even worth all the sacrifices she has had to make along the way.

Then she meets Archie Carmichael. Handsome, wealthy--the only man she's ever met who seems to accept her modern ways--her independent nature and passion for success. But once she accepts his proposal of marriage he starts to change his tune, and Olive must decide if she is willing to reveal a devastating secret and sacrifice the life she loves for the man she loves.

The Show Girl

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#paperback #newberrywinner #contemporary #20thcentury #bestseller #book #family #fiction 

New York

Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. Reader's Guide available. A Newbery Medal Book & ALA Notable Children's Book. Reprint.

Kira-Kira

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#paperback #philosophy #fiction #franzkafka #kafka #literature #booktok #dystopia #classic #20thcentury

A German novel about a man who is arrested and brought to trial for no reason.

The Trial

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#paperback #fiction #Africa #classics #nobelprize #India #20thcentury 


In an African country that has suffered revolution and civil war and that is headed by a man of almost insane energy and crudity, one restless, reflective, and isolated villager and his friends uneasily submit to the tide of events

A Bend in the River

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#paperback #20thcentury #classics #fiction #historicalfiction #literature #militaryfiction #vietnam 

Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam, in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness

The Things They Carried

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 #hardcover #WWII #war #20thcentury #nonfiction #history #eyewitnessbooks #DK

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Discover the war that shaped the modern world - and the history of this global conflict

Now in Paperback!

Discover the war that shaped the modern world in Eyewitness: World War II. From the pre-war rise of Nazi Germany to the start of the war with the invasion of Poland in 1939 to Japan singing the surrender agreement in 1945, all aspects of the deadliest conflict in human history are covered in great detail with content that is accessible and appropriate for young readers.

For over 25 years, DK's Eyewitness books have been the most trusted nonfiction series in classrooms, libraries, and homes around the world. In summer 2014 this award-winning series will get a fresh new look both inside and out. The introduction of paperback editions, eye-catching jackets, and updated interiors ensure that the Eyewitness series will continue to be relevant in the ever-changing world of education and remain the go-to source for homework help, research projects, reluctant readers, ESL students, and, as always, to satisfy the minds of curious kids.

Supports the Common Core State Standards.

⭐ World War II

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#hardcover #history #foreignaffairs #20thcentury 

Articles from Foreign Affairs magazine from the 1920s through the early 1970s.

This book is in good condition with no wear to the spine or binding. Pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is torn on the front and back with wear around the edges. Covers are in good condition but starting to discolor. Printed in 1972, 501 pp.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Fifty Years of Foreign Affairs

#hardcover #sociology #ushistory #americanhistory #cities #urbanlandscape #20thcentury

This suggestive historical analysis of metropolitan America during the half century from 1915-1966 carries on the author's account of the urbanization of America. He surveys the expansion of metropolitan centers, observes their progressive loss of civic unity and effectiveness, and records the results of varied proposals for their reconstruction and survival.

This book is in good vintage condition, with little wear to the pages. A slight binding gap is beginning to form at the top of the book, but there are no breaks. Dust jacket shoes some scuffing and wear, and the edges of the cover are worn. Published in 1968.

The Emergence of Metropolitan America 1915-1966

Arkansas

Anton Chekhov, the first great dramatist of the twentieth century, forged his theater from the tumultuous society in which he lived and worked, the pre-Revolutionary Russia of decadent aristocrats, restless intellectuals, and ambitious peasants; in the process, he liberated the stage from the arch fustiness of nineteenth-century conventions and presented life onstage as it had never been seen before: life as it is lived. His characters, from the yearning Irina ofThree Sistersand the vain, self-centered Arkadina in The Sea-gull to the crude but tenderhearted Lopahin in The Cherry Orchard, are riveting embodiments of the frailty of the human condition, presented with stunning clarity and naturalism, that have fascinated actors, playgoers, and readers for more than a century. As Kenneth Rexroth writes in his Introduction, "We accept these tragic comedies... the way we would accept life itself if we were gifted with sudden wisdom." Three Plays contains those works many consider the apex of Chekhov's dramatic achievement:The Sea-gull,Three Sisters, andThe Cherry Orchard. Presented here in classic translations by Constance Garnett, these plays testify to Chekhov's enduring influence on the modern drama.

Three Plays by Chekhov

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#hardcover #1st ##suspensethrillers #20thcentury #mystery #fiction #detective #1stedition 

Oklahoma

Investigating the discovery of a skeleton at one of the holiest places in Navajo religion, Jim Chee and the newly retired Joe Leaphorn realize that the body is that of a missing person from one of Joe's long-unsolved past cases. 350,000 first printing. $300,000 ad/promo. Tour.

The Fallen Man  2500

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Set in the dream factory of the 1940s, this glittering debut novel follows a young Hollywood hopeful into a star-studded web of scandal, celebrity, and murder . . . The chipped pink nail polish is a dead giveaway--no pun intended. When a human thumb is discovered near a Hollywood nightclub, it doesn't take long for the police to identify its owner. Miss Penny Harp would recognize that pink anywhere: it belongs to her best friend, Rosemary. And so does the rest of the body buried beneath it. Rosemary, with the beauty and talent, who stood out from all other extras on the Paramount lot. She was the one whose name was destined for a movie marquee--not for the obituaries. And for an extra twist, now an LAPD detective thinks Penny is the one who killed her . . . Penny is determined to prove her innocence--with a little help from an unlikely ally, the world-famous queen of film noir, Barbara Stanwyck. Penny met "Stany" on the set of Paramount's classic comedy The Lady Eve, where the star took an instant liking to her. With Stany's powerful connections and no-nonsense style, she has no trouble following clues out of the studio backlot, from the Los Angeles morgue to the Zanzibar Room to the dark, winding streets of Beverly Hills. But there's something Penny isn't telling her famous partner in crimesolving: a not-so-glamorous secret that could lead them to Rosemary's killer--or send Penny to the electric chair . . .

✒️ The Glamorous Dead - signed

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Texas

#paperback #newberrywinner #contemporary #20thcentury #bestseller #book #family #fiction #japan

Tom Holland; Dona Chernoff (Editor)

Lord of the Dead

Erik Larson

Thunderstruck

Luke Barr

Ritz and Escoffier

J. Randy Taraborrelli

Jackie, Janet & Lee

Tom Bullough

Addlands

Readers Digest Association

Pictures from the Past

William Faulkner; David Minter (Editor)

The Sound and the Fury

Virginia Woolf; Bonnie Kime Scott (Introduction by)

Mrs. Dalloway (annotated)

David Laskin

The Family

Fiona MacDonald

⭐ Women in Peace and War, 1900-1945

Nicola Harrison

The Show Girl

Cynthia Kadohata

Kira-Kira

Franz Kafka (Performed by); Willa Muir (Translator); Edwin Muir (Translator); E. M. Butler (Translator)

The Trial

V.s. Naipaul

A Bend in the River

Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried

Simon Adams; Andy Crawford (Photographer); Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff

⭐ World War II

Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor

Fifty Years of Foreign Affairs

Blake McKelvey

The Emergence of Metropolitan America 1915-1966

Anton Chekov; Constance Garnett (Translator); Kenneth Rexroth (Introduction by)

Three Plays by Chekhov

Erik Larson

Thunderstruck

Tony Hillerman

The Fallen Man 2500

S. Gates

✒️ The Glamorous Dead - signed

Cynthia Kadohata

Kira-Kira

Cynthia Kadohata

Kira-Kira