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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
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With laugh-out-loud impertinence and tongue-in-cheek humor, a best-selling author profiles the unforgettable, impressive 19th- and early 20th-century women—unjustly called sluts, shrews, sinners and scolds—who refused to conform to social standards and who were collectively unbecoming as women, but forever changed what women can become.
Publisher
Read & Co. History, an imprint of Read & Co
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Voice of a Great" offers a fantastic insight into the mind of one of the greatest commanders in history. Highly recommended for those with an interest in the life of Napoleon and military history in general.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Discussing the narrative absent from the classic sports movie Hoosiers, a veteran sportswriter, delving into the history of the Crispus Attucks Tigers, an all-Black team playing in the 1950s in a racially divided Indiana, while dissecting the myths and lore of Hoosier hoops, places the game in the context of migration, segregation, and integration, enhancing our understanding of this country's struggle for civil rights.
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
AD 838. Deep in the forests of Wessex, Dunston's solitary existence is shattered when he stumbles on a mutilated corpse. Accused of the murder, Dunston must clear his name and keep the dead man's daughter alive in the face of savage pursuers desperate to prevent a terrible secret from being revealed. Rushing headlong through Wessex, Dunston will need to use all the skills of survival garnered from a lifetime in the wilderness. And if he has any hope...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone--her house her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends--everything but the memories of her mother's kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart"--
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When Sean Zak arrived in St. Andrews, Scotland-the mecca of golf-he was determined to spend his summer in search of the game's true essence. He found it everywhere. At every turn he also found LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed entity which descended on the professional circuit during that summer of the 150th Open Championship. Zak's personal personal pilgrimage now offered him a front-row seat at a cultural reckoning, one which pitted the game's longstanding...
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature's Soul in America's Heartland takes readers on a journey across all twelve Midwest states to natural settings that defy typical stereotypes of the Midwest landscape. Each chapter focuses on one focal region or locality within each state, often seeking out lesser-known landscapes steeped in beauty and story. Part history, part memoir, part interview-based research, Midwest Bedrock is a personal narrative of exploring...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this new edition of the biography of Bass Reeves, who was formerly enslaved and then served as a peace officer in and around late nineteenth-century Indian Territory, Art Burton traces Reeves's presence in contemporary national media and in popular modern media.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People, Time, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Health, New York Post, Lit Hub, Book Riot, Screenrant
On...
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People, Time, Los Angeles Times, Men’s Health, New York Post, Lit Hub, Book Riot, Screenrant
On...
20) 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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