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Author
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This-day-in-history approach to key figures and events that shaped Colorado from the 1690s to the present. A relevant vignette for each day of the calendar year, exploring Colorado's many facets through distilled tales of people, places, events, and trends that shaped, and continue to shape, the region."--
Author
Publisher
Lorenz Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Contains an illustrated photographic history of firefighting from Roman times to the present day, and charts the development of the fire engine from simple manual pumps to one of the most sophisticated and high-profile vehicles. Provides fascinating documentation about historical fires, the first firefighters, and fire engine manufacture, as well as expert analysis of modern firefighting techniques."--
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Series
Publisher
Arcadia Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes the coolest places are right outside your front door. Learning about Yellowstone's interesting and unique culture has never been so super fun! Did you know Yellowstone was the world's first national park? Or that the Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest hot spring in the United States? From Old Faithful to the Wild West Pizzeria, Super Parks!: Yellowstone covers it all and is sure to engage any reader with fun facts about the history,...
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
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world? In this major work, Fareed...
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...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In Slow Noodles, Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodian refugee who loses everything and everyone—her home, her family, her country—all but the remembered tastes and aromas of her mother’s kitchen. She summons the quiet rhythms of 1960s Battambang, her provincial hometown, before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart and killed more than a million Cambodians, many of them ethnic Vietnamese like Nguon and her family. Then, as an...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"1925. London. When Alice Diamond, a.k.a. 'Diamond Annie,' is elected the Queen of the Forty Elephants, she's determined to take the all-girl gang to new heights. She's ambitious, tough as nails, and a brilliant mastermind, with a plan to create a dynasty the likes of which no one has ever seen. Alice demands absolute loyalty from her 'family'--it's how she's always kept the cops in line. Too bad she's now the target for one of Britain's first female...
12) 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.
15) Midnight blue
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Amsterdam 1654: against the backdrop of Holland's Golden Age, a dangerous secret threatens to destroy a young widow's new life. Following the sudden death of her husband, twenty-five-year-old Catrin leaves her small village and takes a job as a housekeeper to the successful Van Nulandt merchant family. Amsterdam is a city at the peak of its powers: science and art are flourishing in the Golden Age and Dutch ships bring back exotic riches from the...
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