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1) King: a life
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--
"Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
As we enter the "Asian century," China demands our attention for being an economic powerhouse, a beacon of rapid modernization, and an assertive geopolitical player. To understand the nation behind the headlines, we must take in its vibrant, tumultuous past--a story of "larger-than-life characters, philosophical arguments and political intrigues, military conflicts and social upheavals, artistic invention and technological innovation." The Shortest...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation.
But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother’s belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. Set in alternating timelines...
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, the Great Wall of China seems to make an overwhelmingly confident physical statement about the country it spans: about China's age-old sense of itself being an advanced civilization anxious to draw a clear line between itself and the "barbarians" at its borders. But behind the wall's intimidating exterior-and the myths that have built up around it-is a complex history that has both defined and undermined...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 294 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"America Redux explores the themes that create our shared sense of American identity and interrogates the myths we've been telling ourselves for centuries. With iconic American catchphrases as chapter titles, these twenty-one visual stories illuminate the astonishing, unexpected, sometimes darker sides of history that reverberate in our society to this very day--from the role of celebrity in immigration policy to the influence of one small group of...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2019., c2018.
Edition
First Picador edition
Physical Desc
xvii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This program is read by the author.
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War.
In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings,...
Author
Language
English
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On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. Goldfarb shares the powerful story about one of the world's most influential species. He explains how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc., a Scott Fetzer company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
40 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Charts the milestones in the history of medicine and medical practices in a narrative timeline format. Features: glossary, additional resources, and index"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
363, 20 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor's A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, Annabel Abbs, the award-winning author of The Joyce Girl, returns with the brilliant real-life story of Eliza Acton and her assistant as they revolutionized British cooking and cookbooks around the world. Before Mrs. Beeton and well before Julia Child, there was Eliza Acton, who changed the course of cookery writing forever. England, 1835. London is...
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc., a Scott Fetzer company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
40 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Charts the milestones in the history of building construction and architectural styles in a narrative timeline format. Features: glossary, additional resources, and index"--
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It went on to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and quickly became an international bestseller. Twenty years later, the novel has established itself as a modern classic. To commemorate...
13) Night watch
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Doubleday Large Print Home Library ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 784 p. (large print) : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
With this intricately detailed novel of the American South and the Revolutionary War, President Carter becomes our first chief executive, past or present, to publish a work of fiction. By concentrating on Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas from 1763 to 1783, Carter takes a fresh look at this crucial historical period, giving life and originality to a story usually told from the viewpoint of the northern colonies. There's a large cast of characters,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
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It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more upsetting than the decision of his son, Omar, to work as a digger in the excavation zone. But for Omar, whose upbringing was quiet and lonely, this job offers a chance to finally find connection. Ada Bunting is a bold sixteen-year-old...
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc., a Scott Fetzer Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
40 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Charts the milestones in the development of military equipment in a narrative timeline format. Features: glossary, additional resources, and index"--
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc., a Scott Fetzer company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
40 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Charts the milestones in the development of writing and publishing systems in a narrative timeline format. Features: glossary, additional resources, and index"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This enchanting and eye-opening new novel from Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela follows an embattled young woman coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan, and illuminates the tensions that shape her course: between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who--against the odds and for a brief time--gained independence from foreign...
20) Mercia's take
Author
Publisher
Swift
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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