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1	Water for Elephants more books like this by Sara Gruen add to wishlist An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of "Riding Lessons. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands more books like this by Chelsea Handler add to wishlist In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand. see all copies from $6.25! new only from $8.29! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Invention of Hugo Cabret more books like this by Brian Selznick add to wishlist Orphan, clock keeper, thief: Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. Combining elements of picture book, graphic novel, and film, Caldecott Honor artist Selznick breaks open the novel form to create an entirely new reading experience in this intricate, tender, and spellbinding ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $13.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay more books like this by Michael Chabon add to wishlist During the rise of Nazism, Joe Kavalier escapes from Prague and immigrates to America, where he hopes to make enough money to bring the rest of his family with him. He teams up with Sammy Clay, his Brooklyn cousin, to create comic book characters who act out the dreams of their creators--who, meanwhile, both become involved with the same woman, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression more books like this by Amity Shlaes add to wishlist This striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression looks at the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how they had helped to establish the steadfast character that has developed a nation. see all copies from $5.49! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Al Capone Does My Shirts more books like this by Gennifer Choldenko add to wishlist Set in 1935, when guards actually lived on Alcatraz Island with their families, Choldenko's second novel brings humor to the complexities of family dynamics and illuminates the real struggle of a kid trying to free himself from the "good boy" stance he's taken his whole life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Greatest Generation more books like this by Tom Brokaw add to wishlist Accompanying an NBC television special, this title features the American men and women who were born in the 1920s, experienced the unique circumstances of a World War, and went on to become the parents of the "baby boomers." Award-winning anchorman Brokaw has reported on many of the world's major news events since he began his career with NBC News ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Third Reich at War more books like this by Richard J Evans add to wishlist The final volume in Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a people's community to serve a war of conquest, and Hitler's campaign of racial subjugation and genocide. see all copies from $7.90! new only from $18.27! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Their Eyes Were Watching God more books like this by Zora Neale Hurston add to wishlist Zora Neale Hurston's now-classic novel about Janie Crawford, the granddaughter of an ex-slave, and her three husbands: Mr. Killicks, Mayor Starks and, finally, Tea Cake--the love of her life. The novel is set in a black community in rural Florida, and the characters speak in dialect--a technique that inspired both anger and praise from other black ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Prayers for Sale more books like this by Sandra Dallas add to wishlist Dallas has created an unforgettable tale of a friendship between two women, one with surprising twists and turns, and one that is ultimately a revelation of the finest parts of the human spirit. see all copies from $4.50! new only from $13.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal more books like this by Lily Koppel add to wishlist "A New York Times" journalist discovers a discarded old diary - a long-lost treasure that introduces her to an extraordinary woman and a glamourous, forgotten time. For decades it languished in an unclaimed trunk in the basement of a prewar building on Manhattan's Upper West Side, until it was tossed in a dumpster and recovered by journalist Lily ... see all copies from $3.87! new only from $8.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 more books like this by Antony Beevor add to wishlist The Spanish Civil War is a compelling account of one of the most hard-fought and bitter wars of the twentieth century: a war of atrocities and political genocide that was a military testing ground before the Second World War for the Russians, Italians, and Germans. With his thorough and contemporary examination of the Spanish civil war, historian ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 more books like this by Bryan Burrough add to wishlist Journalist Bryan Burrough, grandson of an FBI agent, details the spread of both a new type of crime and a new type of crime-catcher in the early 1930s. The socioeconomic conditions in the U.S. during the Great Depression facilitated the rise in flashy, bloody crime sprees across state lines, committed by limelight-seeking perpetrators such as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression more books like this by Mildred Armstrong Kalish add to wishlist The story of a time, a place, and a way of life, this is a slice of Americana--set during the Great Depression--that shows readers, through the portrait of one high-spirited young girl, how the right stuff can make even a time of adversity seem like a good time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.94! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Native Son more books like this by Richard Wright add to wishlist Bigger Thomas, a young black man in Chicago, murders two women and is condemned to death. Bigger, whose crimes escalate as the story takes its sad and terrible course, feels--like Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT--that the act of murder is a kind of existential act, and is the only kind of freedom he has ever known. Wright ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel more books like this by Stephen King add to wishlist In the Old South of the 1930s, a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls. The fact that he is black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing. This novel is being published serially in six installments: THE TWO ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Coming of the Third Reich more books like this by Richard J Evans add to wishlist This study of Hitler's rise to power in Germany analyzes that country's demise from Europe's most modern and progressive state, in 1900, to one that, by 1930, was ready to choose a man like Hitler to lead them. This is the first volume in a projected three-volume history of Nazi Germany. see all copies from $6.30! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust more books like this by Allan Zullo, Mara Bovsun add to wishlist These are the true-life accounts of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled into danger and fear as the Holocaust overtook Europe. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
19 view cover	Messenger of Truth more books like this by Jacqueline Winspear add to wishlist London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a Mayfair gallery, controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nicks twin sister, Georgina isnt convinced, so she seeks out a fellow college graduate, Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, for help. Before long the case ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Prince of Beverly Hills more books like this by Stuart Woods add to wishlist Movie stars and organized crime mix it up in 1939 Hollywood in this thriller by the author of the Stone Barrington series. Beverly Hills detective Rick Barron's quick thinking gets him a Hollywood job in studio security, which includes keeping British film star Clete Barrow safe...and sober. While Barron's new position has its perks--including a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship more books like this by J Meacham add to wishlist Jon Meacham "weaves together the lives, characters, and fates of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill" ("Time") in the fullest portrait to date of the complex emotional connection between the two men who led the free world to victory in World War II. Photographs throughout. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story more books like this by Diane Ackerman add to wishlist A true story--as powerful as "Schindler's List"--in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. see all copies from $2.90! new only from $6.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Out of the Dust more books like this by Karen Hesse add to wishlist A poem cycle that reads as a novel narrates the story of fifteen-year-old Billie Jo and her battle against the elements during the Oklahoma Dust Bowl of 1934. By the author of The Music of Dolphins. Reprint. Newbery Medal SLJ. AB. PW. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Bud, Not Buddy more books like this by Christopher Paul Curtis add to wishlist Still heartbroken over the death of his mother, a 10-year-old boy named Bud decides to run away rather than live in yet another foster home. Bud is convinced that all would be perfect if he could only get in touch with his father--a man he's never met. The only clues Bud has about his father's identity are some old fliers that his mother saved- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Well and the Mine more books like this by Gin Phillips, Fannie Flagg (Introduction by) add to wishlist In 1931 Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches a woman shove the cover off the family well and toss in a baby without a word. For the Moore family, focused on helping anyone in need during the Great Depression, the apparent murder forces them to face the darker side of their community and question the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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