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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
Includes, concerning the Spanish Civil War, statements personal accounts, fiction, essays, and poetry by W. H. Auden, John Dos Passos, Louis MacNeice, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, William Carlos Williams, Federico Garcia Lorca, Thomas Mann, Antoine De Saint-Exupery, George Orwell, Kenneth Rexroth, Arthur Koestler, Wyndham Lewis, John Steinbeck, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Samuel Beckett, Luis Bunuel, I. F. Stone, Pablo...
Author
Publisher
Harper Select
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The star of NCIS along with a former Special Agent share the dueling stories of the cat-and-mouse games played between a real-life Japanese American naval intelligence officer and a Japanese spy in Pearl Harbor posing as a diplomat.
Author
Publisher
Harmony
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The siren song of Cerro Gordo, a desolate ghost town perched high above Death Valley, has seduced thousands since the 1800s, but few fell harder for it than Brent Underwood, who moved there in March of 2020, only to be immediately snowed in and trapped for weeks. It had once been the largest silver mine in California. Over $500 million worth of ore was pulled from the miles of tunnels below the town. Butch Cassidy, Mark Twain, and other infamous characters...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812--a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation, and the desperate struggle for survival. Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans, including the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnard, abandoned in the barren, windswept, and inhospitable Falklands for a year and a half. With deft narrative skill and...
Author
Publisher
Salina Bookshelf, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In volume three the legendary story of one Naabeeho⁺ѓ family's resilience during the Long Walk sweeps to the south to the Rio Grande and eastward across the mountains of Mescalero Apache. Dza⁺ѓnibaa' is taken from her home on Black Mesa, Arizona (Dzi¿єijiin) then rescued by her kind, young Mescalero Apache man. With her captive, her love at her side she sets out on a journey to Fort Sumner with his Mescalero Apache people. This passionate...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this magisterial history of the continent, Kathleen DuVal traces the power of Native nations from the rise of ancient cities more than 1000 years ago to the present. She reframes North American history, noting significantly that Indigenous civilizations did not come to a halt when a few wandering explorers or hungry settlers arrived, even when the strangers came well-armed. A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the...
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 8
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global, natural, and cultural history (and future) of a unique material that has fascinated the world for thousands of years. Silk—prized for its lightness, luminosity, and beauty—is also one of the strongest biological materials ever known. More than a century ago, it was used to make the first bulletproof vest, and yet...
Author
Series
I survived volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in the Alaskan wilderness, Jackson has always prided himself on being tough. His family lives in a tiny cabin where their neighbors are grizzlies and wolves. The nearest store is a three-day walk away. Jackson loves his life . . . until a fire destroys the family's cabin, and they have to move to the town of Valdez. Adjusting to fifth grade isn't easy. And then Jakckson has to face an earthquake of terrifying strength. As the ground...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"When innocent people are threatened, Preacher punishes the guilty, dispensing his own brand of justice--one bullet at a time--as legendary authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone return with their latest installment in the long-running First Mountain Man series. In a North American British province, a group of Norweigan settlers have carved a life for themselves in a lakeshore village called Skarkavik. Hunters and fishermen, they raise their...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution--leading to the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6th, 2021--by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it. In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to...
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Multiple
Description
One year after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, philosopher Bernard-Henri L©♭vy takes us to the heart of the conflict through a war diary made during the second half of 2022. From Kharkiv, in the Donbass, to Kherson, in the aftermath of the city's liberation, this documentary bears witness to the ravages of war through the testimonies of soldiers, chronicles of the front, and portraits of civilians, and shares with us the struggle of the Ukrainian...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inheriting a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, celebrated writer Alma Cruz creates a graveyard for the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life, but they have other ideas as they rewrite and revise themselves, revealing their true narratives to those who will listen.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A travel narrative following three ancient roads and looking at more than two thousand years of history of Ancient Rome through the modern eye. In 66 B.C., young, ambitious Julius Caesar, seeking recognition and authority, became the curator of the Via Appia. He borrowed significant sums to restore the ancient highway. It was a way to curry favor from Roman citizens in villages along the route, built from Rome to Brindisi between 312-191 B.C. He...
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews. All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time. The material is comprised of intimate interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, their families, friends and business associates that were conducted by Beatles intimate Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines in 1980-1981 during the preparation of...
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Language
English
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Description
"Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler’s rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears...