Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
Description
Sumérgete en el fascinante viaje de Kara Anne Swisher, una figura icónica cuya influencia trasciende el periodismo y la tecnología. En esta biografía esclarecedora, nos embarcamos en una exploración cautivadora de la vida de Swisher, desde sus años formativos en Princeton, Nueva Jersey, hasta su carrera pionera como periodista, activista y defensora del cambio social.
A través de una narrativa minuciosamente investigada,
...Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Siete años antes de Brown v. Board of Education, la familia Méndez luchó para acabar con la segregación en las escuelas de California. Descubre su increíble historia en este libro para niños del galardonado creador Duncan Tonatiuh. ¡Mención de Honor del Premio Pura Belpré al Ilustrador! Cuando su familia se mudó al pueblo de Westminster, California, la pequeña Silvia Méndez estaba entusiasmada con inscribirse en la escuela de su vecindario....
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America's modern special operations forces. The Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, among others. However, as bestselling author Patrick K. O'Donnell reveals in The Unvanquished, a vital shadow...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Facing the Beast is a devastating, detailed account of wrongthink, deplatforming, and an unexpected political, personal, and spiritual transformation that followed during one of the most divisive times in American history."
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air-meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on "the Hump,"...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This powerful story is told from the collective perspective of the children who were rescued from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, as Hitler's campaign of hatred toward Jews and political dissidents took hold. The narrative starts in 1938 and follows the children as they journey to foster families in England for the duration of the war, return to Prague afterward in an unsuccessful search for their parents, and eventually connect with Nicholas...
Author
Series
Rip through time volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends--and feelings--in...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try suggesting a purchase. Submit Request