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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas--until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through true stories of excess, drama, and hope. In What Really Happens in Vegas, full of surprises for both newcomers and Las Vegas regulars, James Patterson and Vanity Fair contributing editor Mark Seal transport readers from the thrill of adrenaline-fueled vice to the glitter of A-list celebrity and entertainment.
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Language
English
Description
In Madness, award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day. She blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents. Madness chronicles the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered...
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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A New History of Iowa features well-known individuals in its narrative, such as the Sauk leader Black Hawk, the artist Grant Wood, botanist George Washington Carver, suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt, and President Herbert Hoover. But it seeks to broaden the state's story, including the stories of previously unknown farmwomen, laborers, immigrants, and refugees. This narrative adds new voices: runaway slaves who joined Iowa's 60th Colored Regiment in...
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Publisher
Ice Cube Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An graphic novel account of the causes and aftermath of the Spirit Lake Massacre in 1857. The story begins in Northwest Iowa and ventures into nearby states where Inkpaduta and his band of Dakota Sioux take their captives while escaping westward.
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Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Many of the historical narratives from early America are fraught with peril and uncertainty, but they also provide a glimpse into the courage and determination of the people who helped found our nation. Readers are sure to be dazzled by these colorful and dramatic retellings of key events in early American history. Stories include the struggles of the Pilgrims as they crossed an ocean to seek religious freedom, a tale of the first Thanksgiving, and...
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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...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Through the discovery of one Victorian woman's textile scrapbook, a fashion historian and museum curator unravels the secrets within its pages and the lives of the people within, charting, piece by piece, the whole of human experience in the most intimate of mediums: the clothes people wear.
13) New York City
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Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Vibrant illustrations accompany introductory information about the history of New York City. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade.
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Series
Fire born volume 4
Publisher
Canelo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A clash of crowns pits brother against sister in the battle for ultimate power. Spring, AD 777. Sigurd Hring, new King of the Svear, is summoning all the greatest warriors of the North to his banner, promising them riches and glory. He invites Bjarki Bloodhand, the famous berserkr who can summon the fury of a wild bear in battle, to swear an oath of fealty to him. But Bjarki has already sailed away to rescue a beautiful Saxon princess. Tor Hildarsdottir,...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. Across fashion and...
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Spending time with Israel’s entrepreneurs and political leaders, soldiers and students, scientists and activists, the writers discover Israel’s greatest innovation is its society itself and provide surprising insights into how we can confront the crisis of community, human connectedness and purpose in modern life.
Author
Series
House of Falconer volume 3
Language
English
Description
Returning from The Great War a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental, James Falconer, determined to make amends to his daughter, Leonie, now a grown woman who wants nothing to do with him, works toward healing his body, soul and family.
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning British-Egyptian writer presents an authoritative history of the first modern city and how it has shaped our modern world, including its role as a global capital of knowledge as well as the site of plagues and violence. Together, Greeks and Egyptians, Romans and Jews created a global knowledge capital of enormous influence: the inventive collaboration of its citizens shaped modern philosophy, science, religion and more. In this sweeping...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Late last year, when the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down, the news made headlines around the world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with those inside and around the firm, Copeland takes readers into the room as a rotating cast of memorable characters grapple with their personal psychological...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves.
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