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Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Have you ever wondered what it was like to discover King Tut's tomb or to dig up the first Tyrannosaurus rex fossils? This book will help you investigate some of history's most famous excavations and the archaeologists and paleontologists who led them. Learn how historic finds have revealed many secrets about early humans and animals.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Description
-- , calls “one of the most inspiring books I have ever read,” Lemmon recounts with novelistic vividness the true story of a fearless young woman who not only reinvented herself as an entrepreneur to save her family but, in the face of ferocious opposition, brought hope to the lives of dozens of women in war-torn Kabul. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana is a powerful true story of a fearless young woman who reinvented herself as an entrepreneur to...
7084) It ain't over
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Uplifting documentary about Yogi Berra that goes beyond "Yogisms," and into the heart of a sports legend.
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Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2013
Description
-- AN EMPEROR FOR THE LEGION In the capital of Videssos, a coward and betrayer has seized the throne. There, behind great walls that have always made the city impregnable to storm or siege, he rules with the aid of dark sorcery. Overthrowing him seems impossible and the imperial army has already fled in panic from the savage victors. But there is no panic in the legion. Now Marcus Scaurus leads his men through the chaos and enemy hordes in search...
7086) The Copernicus Complex
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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Description
-- The Copernicus Complex With characteristic verve, Scharf uses the latest scientific findings to reconsider where we stand in the balance between cosmic significance and mediocrity, order and chaos. Presenting a compelling and bold view of our true status, The Copernicus Complex proposes a way forward in the ultimate quest: determining life's abundance, not just across this universe but across all realities.
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military powers in history. Hundreds of millions of people held their collective breath as the United States and the Soviet Union, two national ideological entities,...
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Publisher
Tanglewood Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Subjected to sadistic medical experiments, she was forced to fight daily for her and her twin's survival. In this incredible true story written for young adults, readers learn of a child's endurance and...
Publisher
Entertainment Distributing
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Attack air: Forged in the fires of World War I's brutal trench warfare, attack aviation emerged as the one hope to break the gruesome stalemate on the ground. In World War II, attack aviation reached its zenith of success as both the Axis and Allies refined it to a deadly art. Fly with our veterans as they dodge trees, flak and fighters during their zero-altitude missions against enemy ground targets.
P-51 Mustang: The P-51 Mustang rose from obscurity...
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Series
Blackfriars Lane volume 02
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The Continuing Adventure of Jackson and Kit! Detective Jackson Forge can hardly wait to marry the street-sly swindler who's turned his life upside down. Kit Turner is equally excited to wed the handsome detective, and what better way to show her love than providing him with a gift any man of the law would love? She determines to bring to justice the men who years ago maimed his brother--despite Jackson's warning to leave the past in the past. As she...
7092) Ip man
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Well Go USA Entertainment
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"Set in Fo Shan, China during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight [to the] death for a precious bag of rice. Defined by courage and humility, Ip Man, whose fighting skills are revered all over China, rises to the fore front. Upon refusing to teach his martial arts to the invading Japanese soldiers, he is forced to fight for the honor of his...
7093) The counterfeit Countess: the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, unknown story of "Countess Janina Suchodolska," a Jewish woman who rescued more...
7094) The Road to Jonestown
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017
Description
-- “A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” ( -- The Road to JonestownSan Francisco Chronicle).
7095) Hamilton
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Publisher
Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Broadway hit musical from Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Or has Russia stepped into a vacuum created by the West's distraction with its own domestic problems and US ambivalence about whether it still wants to act as a superpower? Putin's World examines the country's turbulent past, how it has influenced Putin, the Russians' understanding of their position on the...
7097) The soldier's wife
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"Former Union soldier Jeremiah 'Jack' Murphy should never have given his word to a dying man, especially a Rebel. But now he feels honor-bound to carry the message to the man's young bride. Besides, with false charges following him, Jack needs somewhere to turn. After he fulfills his promise, perhaps the North Carolina mountains can give this weary soldier some shelter. Yet when he meets beautiful widow Sayer Garth, leaving is the last thing on Jack's...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Description
-- The Boys in the BoatNew York Times bestselling author Daniel James Brown sheds new light on one of the most legendary events in American history. Following every painful footstep of Sarah’s journey with the Donner Party, Brown produces a tale both spellbinding and richly informative.
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WAS SHE A SWEET SOUTHERN CHARMER?
OR A COLD-BLOODED KILLER?
For their wedding portrait, petite Pat Taylor and handsome Tom Allanson posed as Rhett and Scarlett. Both came from fine Southern families, and dreamed of the Tara-like plantation where they would grow roses, raise horses, and move in the genteel circles of Atlanta society. Less than two months later, their dream exploded in terror and murder: their beautiful home mysteriously...
OR A COLD-BLOODED KILLER?
For their wedding portrait, petite Pat Taylor and handsome Tom Allanson posed as Rhett and Scarlett. Both came from fine Southern families, and dreamed of the Tara-like plantation where they would grow roses, raise horses, and move in the genteel circles of Atlanta society. Less than two months later, their dream exploded in terror and murder: their beautiful home mysteriously...
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Publisher
Speedy Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Did you know that Oprah Winfrey was not always rich and successful? She started from nothing and yet she worked hard to achieve her dreams. Hers is a story that will inspire young children to dream and work tirelessly towards that dream. Get to know the real Oprah Winfrey. Read this book today!