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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The true story of Ephraim Mattos, a former US Navy SEAL, and what he witnessed while volunteering as a frontline combat medic for the Free Burma Rangers during the battle to retake the city of Mosul from ISIS.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
x, 416 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping history of the intertwined careers of Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, whose rivalry and conflicting views of U.S. national security color our political debate to this day. Dick Cheney and Colin Powell emerged on the national scene more than thirty years ago, and it is easy to forget that they were once allies. It was Cheney who pressed for Powell's appointment as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, over the initial skepticism of the White...
39083) Torpedoed!: a World War II story of a sinking passenger ship and two children's survival at sea
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 158 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Recreates the events surrounding the attack by a German U-boat on the Athenia in 1939 through firsthand accounts and interviews with survivors.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
ix, 169 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book deals with two very large and often amorphous concepts: privacy and surveillance in the context of both government and the marketplace. Both concepts have undergone changes over the millennia of recorded human history, and those changes have dramatically sped up and expanded over the past few centuries, starting with the widespread use of the printing press in the mid- to late-15th century when books and newspapers began to proliferate...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring picture book biography about Shirley Chisholm"--
"Meet Shirley, a little girl who asks way too many questions! After spending her early years on her grandparents' farm in Barbados, she returns home to Brooklyn and immediately makes herself known. Shirley kicks butt in school; she breaks her mother's curfew; she plays jazz piano instead of classical. And as a young adult, she fights against the injustice she sees around her, against...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"'Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.' The prophetic words of abolitionist, writer, and social reformer Frederick Douglass live on in his speeches and books of autobiography. This speech, delivered on July 5, 1852 was an address to the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. Douglass grew up enslaved and deprived of rights and liberty and argued that the American values of freedom and liberty for some, but not...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
422 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Opening up for the first time about his combat experience, Congressman Ruben Gallego (D, AZ) delivers a moving and unforgettable memoir of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War"--
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color w/black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
715 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffuhle--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber...
39093) Hear my voice: the testimonies of children detained at the southern border of the United States
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
Este libro, una historia de niños contada por niños, no fue fácil de contar o escuchar. Pero no es solo una historia sobre la crueldad y la negligencia de los adultos, sino que a fin de cuentas, es también la historia de la fuerza, valentía y esperancza de los niños.
In Spanish and in English, a first-person account of children's experiences in detention at the southern U.S. border. Every day, children in migration are detained at the US-Mexico...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvii, 205 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people's interests--by the reporter who broke the story. In a series of cover stories for The Nation magazine, journalist Scott Sherman uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost took down one of New York City's most beloved and iconic institutions: the New York Public Library. In the years preceding the 2008 financial crisis, the library's...
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
xi, 347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray who, in 1759, was commissioned by Louis XV "to travel throughout France teaching the art of childbirth to illiterate peasant women."--Jacket.
39096) Soldiers don't go mad: a story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xviii, 331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I. From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare. Soldiers faced relentless machine gun shelling, incredible artillery power, flame throwers, and gas attacks. Within the...
39097) Marilyn Monroe
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Little Norma Jeane grew up between foster homes, an orphanage, and a family friend's house - where she was forbidden from watching movies. Through her difficult childhood and teen years, she dreamed of becoming an actress. One day a photographer spotted her and gave her a modelling contract, and from this day she was 'Marilyn Monroe'. She was much-admired but suffered from pre-performance anxiety, which was a challenge for her in her career. Her...
39098) Do all Indians live in tipis?: questions and answers from the National Museum of the American Indian
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Debunking common myths and providing information about everything from katsina dolls to casinos and Pocahontas to powwows, Native staff members at the National Museum of the American Indian have handled a wide array of questions over the years. This book presents nearly 100 of their answers. This accessible and informative book counters deeply embedded stereotypes while providing a lively introduction to diverse Native histories and contemporary...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The wordsmith Lewis Carroll is famed for the freewheeling world of Wonderland in his beloved classics Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. In this gloriously illustrated picture book, Carroll's childlike love of life is showcased alongside his brilliance at creating and adapting playful words and phrases.
Author
Series
Tales of the talented tenth volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
122 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Imagine a five-foot-two-inch-tall woman riding a Harley eight times across the continental United States. Now imagine she is black and is journeying across the country in the pre-Civil Rights era of the 1930s and '40s. That is the amazing true story of Bessie Stringfield, the woman known today as The Motorcycle Queen of Miami and the first black woman to be inducted into the American Motorcyclist Association Hall of Fame and the Harley Davidson Hall...
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