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34681) Minik: the New York Eskimo
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 286 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sailing aboard a ship called Hope, celebrated explorer Peary entered New York Harbor with peculiar "cargo": six Polar Inuit intended to serve as live "specimens" at the American Museum of Natural History. Four died within a year. One managed to gain passage back to Greenland. Only the sixth, a boy of seven or eight with a precociously solemn smile, remained. His name was Minik. This significantly revised and updated edition of Kenn Harper's landmark...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
vi, 310 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary love story of an American blueblood and a German aristocrat--and a riveting tale of survival in wartime Germany. Sigrid MacRae never knew her father, until a trove of letters revealed not only him, but also the singular story of her parents' intercontinental love affair. While visiting Paris in 1927, her American mother, Aimee, raised in a wealthy Connecticut family, falls in love with a charming, sophisticated Baltic German baron,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider a world imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. These twelve interviews, conducted from 2013 to 2016, examine the latest developments around the globe: the devastation of Syria, the reach of state surveillance, growing anger over economic inequality, the place of religion in American political culture, and the...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
ix, 288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"According to the media, Donald Trump could never become president. Now many are on a mission to prove he shouldn't be president. The Trump administration and the press are at war -- and as in any war, the first casualty has been truth. Bestselling author Howard Kurtz, host of Fox News's Media Buzz and former Washington Post columnist, offers a stunning exposé of how supposedly objective journalists, alarmed by Trump's success, have moved into the...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This title introduces young readers to John Lewis, best known for his role during the Civil Rights era, for walking alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., and for his work as a congressman. Readers will enjoy learning about Lewis' early years, and his incredible achievements both socially and politically. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO."--
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 275 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"African American westerns have a rich cinematic history and visual culture. Mia Mask examines the African American western hero within the larger context of film history by considering how Black westerns evolved and approached wide-ranging goals. Woody Strode's 1950s transformation from football star to actor was the harbinger of hard-edged western heroes later played by Jim Brown and Fred Williamson. Sidney Poitier's Buck and the Preacher provided...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"'I've come on orders from Berlin to fetch the three children.' --Gestapo agent, August 24, 1944. With those chilling words, Christa von Hofacker and her younger siblings found themselves ensnared in a web of family punishment designed to please one man -- Adolf Hitler. The furious dictator sought merciless revenge against not only Christa's father and the other Germans who had just tried to overthrow his government. He wanted to torment their relatives,...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a 'lost generation' shaken by war. Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos first witnessed the horror of trench warfare in France as a volunteer ambulance driver retrieving the dead and seriously wounded from the front line. Later in the war,...
34690) A storm in the stars
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In London, early in the nineteenth century, five-year-old Mary Godwin, daughter of philosopher William Godwin, plays with her sister Fanny, mourns her deceased mother, and marvels as a hot air balloon lands not far from the Thames. Nearby, in Sussex, eleven-year-old Percy Shelley entertains his three sisters by telling them stories and performing tricks with chemicals and fire. A few years later Mary and Percy meet and fall in love in the Godwin...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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xv, 556 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius--from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as 'a slave, ' to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln. From his youth as a 'newsboy, ' a voracious newspaper reader, Lincoln became a free thinker, reading...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiv, 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years after the Starr Report and the Clinton impeachment, former special prosecutor Ken Starr finally shares his definitive account of one of the most divisive periods in American history. You could fill a library with books about the scandals of the Clinton administration, which eventually led to President Clinton's impeachment by the House of Representatives. Bill and Hillary Clinton have told their version of events, as have various journalists...
34693) A rambling man
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Series
Lucas Cain volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
335 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves. When the war ends, Lucas and over 2,000 others crowd aboard the riverboat Sultana, which was built to carry cargo, not men. After an unforeseen event occurs, Lucas finds himself further adrift. Returning home to Cape Girardeau,...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
ix, 228 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling presents an outrageous history of American politics, past and present, Republican and Democrat. From national political scandals to tempests in a teapot that blew up; bribery, blackmail, bullying, and backroom deals that contradicted public policies; cronyism that cost taxpayers hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars; and personal conduct that can only be described as regrettable, The Swamp is a journey downriver...
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Letras hispánicas volume 46
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
117 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Como repetidamente declaró Federico García Lorca, "Yerma" es una tragedia con un solo tema (la mujer estéril) y un carácter en progresivo desarrollo. A través del largo tiempo dramático, Yerma lucha desesperadamente con su verdad, que cada vez se vuelve más conflictiva y no ceja en ello hasta consumarla. La resolución final--la muerte del marido--es la última defensa de su sueño imposible y una afirmación rotunda de su destino trágico...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
99 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is one of the most famous memorials in the world. But most people are not as familiar with the college student who won the design competition to build it. This carefully researched volume chronicles Maya Lin's childhood, her battle to create the memorial as she envisioned it, and the incredible body of work she has produced since then. More than simply an art book, this compelling biography of a young...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The author, journalist, television commentator, and longtime Washington insider reflects on the spiritual quest that has brought deeper meaning to her life--and kept her grounded within the high-powered political world of Washington, D.C.'s elite--her renowned writing career, her celebrity marriage, and her legendary role as doyenne of the capital's social scene. In this emotionally involving, illuminating memoir, the legendary Washington Post journalist,...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (black & white) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tells the true story of Iva Toguri, a Japanese American woman who was visiting relatives in Tokyo shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Trapped in Japan, Iva was pressed to renounce her American citizenship, but refused. As war raged across the Pacific, she took a job with Radio Tokyo-where she was forced to host "Zero Hour," a propaganda show aimed at demoralizing American troops-in the role of Tokyo Rose, the "Siren of the Pacific.""--Publisher's...
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