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2) The fraud
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper-and cousin by marriage-of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
Author
Publisher
Islandport Press
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
viii, 228 pages ; illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Wild! Weird! Wonderful! Maine. celebrates more than 300 of the natural wonders, characters, inventors, historical firsts, legends, and landmarks, that give the state its zest.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Go on a trip through the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art without ever leaving your home! Prepare to explore the treasures of the world's civilizations--from ancient Egyptian amulets, Mayan jewelry, and prehistoric tools--to Medieval tapestries, Renaissance suits of armor, and modern-day baseball cards. Each page brings you closer to the past as you learn about the people of different ages through the objects they left behind"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
xx, 300 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking readers across Europe, Africa and the Americas, this dramatic journey through 13 witch trials, some famous, some lesser-known, empowers the people who were and are victimized and marginalized, giving a voice to those who were silenced by history.
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xii, 372 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Amber Hunt always has the same answer: it's no hotter than it's always been. Crimes and trials have captured American consciousness since the Salem Witch Trials in the seventeenth century. And these cases over the centuries have fundamentally changed our society and shifted our legal system, resulting in the laws we have today and setting...
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
"This timely book details the importance of vaccines and how they were developed throughout history, as well as how they work to protect your body and keep it healthy"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
294 pages ; illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
224 pages : 400 color illus. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Twins have captivated the imagination for centuries, occupying a unique place in our cultural and scientific history. Twinkind looks at twins in myth and legend; anatomy, sociology, and genetics; and as sources of spectacle, entertainment, and community. Drawing on hundreds of striking and sometimes haunting illustrations, William Viney examines depictions of twins as protagonists in creation stories ranging from Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca in Aztec...
Author
Publisher
Alpine Alchemy Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
150 pages ill., map
Language
English
Description
Based on a decade of research, America's First Great Eclipse takes readers on a thrilling historical journey, revealing that nineteenth-century Americans were just as excited about a total solar eclipse as we are today ... and, like us, were willing to travel thousands of miles to see it.The upcoming total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 is being called the Great American Eclipse. But it is not the first eclipse to deserve that title. In the summer...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Full of exciting visual timelines covering minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, Timelines of Nature reveals our planet's natural history and its life cycles in an entirely new way"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First Kensington Hardcover Edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tabitha Knight investigates the sudden death of a chef at a cooking school who poured himself a glass of wine from a rare vintage bottle.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Two 1990s Ugandan teens are kidnapped and forced into the Lord's Resistance Army where they dream of surviving their captivity and their intent to remain good people.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From the Founding to today, this book tells the stories of seven former presidents who each changed history and offered lessons about how to decide what to do in the next chapter of life as they handled human problems of ego, finances and questions about their legacy and mortality.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 313 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the answers to some of science's central questions. Silent, dry, and barren, Earth's 4.34-billion-year-old companion is essential to life on earth. Its gravity stabilized the Earth's orbit, and, as it once guided evolution, its tide stirring up nutrients that fostered complex life, it now influences everything from animal migrations and reproduction to the movements of plants' leaves. More...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (6 1/2 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Weighs the corrupting and divisive influence of the Trump administration while outlining recommendations for restoring productive, nonpartisan relationships that address racism and economic inequality.
18) Artifice
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
National Book Award-winner Neal Shusterman and acclaimed artist Andres Vera Martinez present a multidimensional exploration of the Holocaust, delivered through surreal visions and a textured canvas of heroism and hope.
Prepare yourself for an unforgettable journey into impossible and wondrous things that never happened, set against a backdrop of impossible, unthinkable things that did. Brilliant storytelling plunges readers into one of the darkest...