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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France's royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic swirl of complexities. Both began believing...
Author
Publisher
FormatteedBooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This book is about a large baby boomer family from the unique perspective of father and son. The father's early formation, his trials and training leading to Arial Combat during WWll as a nineteen-year-old Pilot in a B-24 over Germany. It's a story about a man finding something he likes to do and finding he's good at it, not knowing the price to be paid in active and repressed PTSD. The story of a military wife, who has to deal with that dichotomy...
Author
Series
Jump in time volume 1
Publisher
Imbrifex Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Dan Renfrew accidentally transports himself to England in the year 1066, he learns he is a time jumper, descended from a long line of secret heroes who protect the present by traveling to the past to fix breaks and glitches in the time stream.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties...
6) Lancaster
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It tells the story of the iconic WW2 bomber, through the words of the last surviving veterans of the bombing campaign.
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1666, one year after plague has devastated England. Young widow Cecilia Thorowgood is a prisoner, trapped and isolated within her older sister’s cavernous London townhouse. At the mercy of a legion of doctors trying to cure her grief with their impatient scalpels, Cecilia shows no sign of improvement. Soon, her sister makes a decision born of desperation: She hires a new physician, someone known for more unusual methods. But he is a foreigner....
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