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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A group of bestselling authors pays tribute to legendary New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank and her literary legacy, capturing her unforgettable spirit, joy, and humor in stories of reunions and love.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life--Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin' and Hopin'--and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women. I'll Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First American Edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned. Yet in China this brutal and turbulent period exists, for the most part, as an...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
What She Ate is a beloved culinary historian's short take on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking, including what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Physical Desc
xv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 783 p. : 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed were the probably the most important questions on Earth-and also the hardest: How many humans can the planet hold without capsizing? How robust must the Earth's ecosystem be to assure our continued existence? Can we know which other species are essential to our survival? And, how might we actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an economy to allow genuine prosperity...
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Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
208 p. ;
Language
English
Description
Not since the last American troops left Vietnam have we faced such a sudden vacuum in our foreign policy—not only of authority, but also of explanations of what happened, and what the future holds.
Few analysts are better poised to address this moment than Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, intellectuals and critics whose work spans generations and continents. Called “the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” by the New York...
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Series
Publisher
Christian Focus Publications
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
151 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
These ten boys grew up and changed the world. Learn about Billy Graham, Brother Andrew, John Newton, George Muller, Nicky Cruz, William Carey, David Livingstone, Adoniram Judson, Eric Liddell and Luis Palau.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A modern tale of striving ambition, envy, desire and murder, and a mesmerizing take on Theodore Dreiser's classic novel "An American Tragedy." Claire Griffith has it all, a thriving career, a gorgeous boyfriend, glamorous friends. She always knew she was destined for more than the life her conservative parents preached to her. Arriving in Los Angeles flat broke, she has risen to become a popular fitness coach and social media influencer. Having rebranded...
11) Figuring
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 578 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries. It begins with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ends with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 445 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A history of the American war in Vietnam that provides a rich overview of that war and an evocative reminder of the human faces of the generation who served.
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 367 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Suzanne interviews cutting-edge doctors in the fields of environmental medicine and integrative health, providing a clear identification of the core reasons we're so 'tox-sick,' as well as a whole-life plan for detoxifying your body, home, and life for optimal health, weight, and living.
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Language
English
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Description
In The Triumph of Christianity, the author presents how a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four centuries. The Triumph of Christianity combines deep knowledge and meticulous research in an eye-opening, immensely readable narrative that upends the way we think about the single most important cultural...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience.
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bruce Lee embodies the intermixture of cultures that results from transnational flows of people, ideas, and capital. Born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, his life was one of constant shuttling across the Pacific. Rather than being a product of California or China, he was produced by transpacific currents impelled by colonialism, capitalism, and militarism. In his life, career, and films he faced and addressed racism and colonialism. He...
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
303 p.
Language
English
Description
"In Civil War by Other Means, Jeremi Suri, shows how the victory of the Union was never secure and the resistance to it began immediately. Key Confederate figures fled to exile in Mexico after their defeat and returned when they could safely resume theirformer lives once the threat of Northern domination had been quashed. Many antebellum influences and attitudes lived on secretly, and their creeping influence gradually overwhelmed Lincoln's vision...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 650 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Age of Eisenhower tells the story of a masterful president guiding the nation through the great crises of the 1950s, from McCarthyism and the Korean War through civil rights turmoil and Cold War conflicts. Today, presidential historians rank Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents. He is also noted as a gifted leader and a decent man of humble origins who used his powers to advance the welfare of all Americans.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy-and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed. Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who...
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvii, 510 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In December 1862, the Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and threatened to break apart Abraham Lincoln's government. Five extraordinary individuals experienced Fredericksburg's cataclysmic repercussions -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, John Pelham, and Arthur Fuller. Guided by duty, driven by desire, they moved toward lofty destinies: a young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, a gay Brooklyn...