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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a courageous plan to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England. But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a rundown manor house in Kent would test her to the limit. One by one countries fell to the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part high-seas adventure, part examination of the Age of Exploration, this account of Captain James Cook’s last voyage in 1776 charts how his overt and covert missions came to a head on the island of Hawaii and left behind a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned to death a mother and child in their home—and then covered up the crime with hellfire. After Polly’s legal dream team entered the fray, the press and the public debated not only her guilt, but her...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe...and the impossible is exactly what the formidable Captain Sharpe is asked to do when he's sent on an undercover mission to a small village in the Spanish countryside, far behind enemy lines. For the quiet, remote village, sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Two French armies march towards the bridge. If they meet, the British...
Author
Publisher
Universe Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The definitive, illustrated celebration of 100 of the most important women in sports as covered by Sports Illustrated since its founding in 1954. Marking the 50th anniversary of Title IX, this is an inspiring celebration of 100 women who are still paving the way for future generations of female athletes. This volume chronicles both the breadth and rich diversity of sports and the athletes who compete in them: from the global stage of the Olympics...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Enzo Ferrari is the impressively researched, fully detailed biography of one of the most powerful men of the twentieth century. Brock Yates penetrated Ferrari's inner circle and reveals everything, from his early days in the town of Modena to his bizarre relationship with his illegitimate son; from his fanatic passion for speed to his brilliant marketing of the famous Ferrari image; from his manipulative but enormously effective management tactics...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It's the spring of 1939. Big changes are happening at Skeldale House and everyone has to learn how to adjust. Tristan is now a qualified vet while James enters a new stage of his life with Helen and at the practice. James pushes to take on more responsibility via the Ministry of Agriculture's new bovine tuberculosis testing scheme, but its unexpected challenges risk pushing him to the breaking point.
14) Bluebird
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product of Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Examines the secret life of Belle de Costa Greene, who was responsible for shaping the Pierpont Morgan Library collection and who became a luminary in New York high society, describing how the daughter of free people of color invented a Portuguese grandmother to enter white society to take the art world by storm.
16) The fox maidens
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Kai Song dreams of being a warrior. She wants to follow in the footsteps of her beloved father, the commander of the Royal Legion. But she is plagued by rumors that she is the granddaughter of Gumiho, the infamous nine-tailed fox demon who was killed by her father years before. Everything comes crashing down the day Kai learns the deadly secret about her mother's past. Now she must come to terms with the truth about her identity and take her destiny...
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