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Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This timely book provides a balanced and deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since Christopher Columbus's first arrival in 1492. With decades of experience studying and reporting on the island, Philip Brenner and Peter Eisner provide an incisive overview for all readers seeking to go beyond stereotypes in their exploration of Cuba's politics, economy, and culture. As Cuba and the United States open their doors to each other, Cuba Libre gives...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
At seven years old Min Kym was a prodigy, the youngest ever student at the famed Purcell School of Music. At eleven she won her first international prize. And at twenty-one, she found "the one," the violin that would transform her life: a rare 1696 Stradivarius. Her career soared. She recorded the Brahms concerto and a world tour was planned.
"The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage...
123204) A ship's day
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
""Vibrant illustrations accompany information about the daily activities of a cargo ship. The narrative nonfiction text is intended for students in kindergarten through third grade." -Provided by publisher"--
123205) Dire wolf
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the prehistoric dire wolf.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Vintage books trade paperback [edition].
Language
English
Description
"Brown Album is a stirring collection of essays, at times humorous and at times profound, drawn from more than a decade of Khakpour's work. Altogether, it reveals the tolls that immigrant life in this country can take on a person and the joys that life can give."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks." Deer Hunting with Jesus is Joe Bageant's report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia. Like countless American small towns, it is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"What is the internet doing to us? What is college for? What are the myths and metaphors we live by? These are the questions that William Deresiewicz has been pursuing over the course of his award-winning career. The End of Solitude brings together more than forty of his finest essays, including four that are published here for the first time. Ranging widely across the culture, they take up subjects as diverse as Mad Men and Harold Bloom, the significance...
123210) Pioneers of television: Season 3
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Nearly 100 stars from television's formative years bring their stories to PBS in a revealing documentary series. Featuring sitcoms, late-night, variety and game shows -- the film melds compelling new HD interviews with archival clips to offer a fresh take on television's first celebrities, with fascinating stories, never-before-seen images and timeless clips that still entertain decades later.
123211) The Boleyns: a scandalous family
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Explores the rise and fall of the Boleyn family during the reign of King Henry VIII, featuring dramatic reenactments and contributions from Tudor scholars.
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
[Fullscreen edition].
Language
English
Description
Three historic motion pictures of Native Americans and their life-style in the early 1900s. 1. The romance of a vanishing race: A view of Indian life in the west featuring Navajo, Pueblo, Crow, and Hopi tribes and reenactment of Indian battles on the plains, medicine men and ceremonies. 2. Rodman Wanamaker expedition of citizenship to the North American Indian: Carrying the flag and a message of hope to a vanishing race-- Dr. Joseph Dixon explains...
123214) The Pez outlaw
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of Steve Glew, a man who spent the 1990s smuggling rare Pez candy dispensers into the United States from Eastern Europe.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry-with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter-in the tradition of David Grann, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Hampton Sides. In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of...
123216) Becoming Ezra Jack Keats
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Becoming Ezra Jack Keats offers the first complete biography of acclaimed children's author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983). While an earlier biography for children was published in 1995, this volume represents the first biography of Keats intended for adult readers. Drawing extensively from his unpublished autobiography and letters, Becoming Ezra Jack Keats covers the breadth of Keats's life, taking readers through his early years as...
123217) Celtic soul
Pub. Date
[2018?]
Language
English
Description
Follows Canadian actor/comedian Jay Baruchel and Irish soccer journalist Eoin O'Callaghan on a journey through Canada, Ireland, and Scotland in pursuit of their favorite soccer team, Glasgow's Celtic.
123218) Butterflies soar
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Follow the transformation of caterpillars from their first crunch of leaves to changing in a chrysalis and finally to beautiful butterflies soaring in the sky in this poetic celebration of nature for babies and toddlers"--
123219) Water everywhere: pig rescue!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Four days of heavy rain sent water rushing toward Jeff Johnson's Iowa pig farm, threatening to flood everything in its path. The high waters could easily sweep away the animals, but Jeff had no way to move all of his pigs out of harm's way. How would the pigs survive? Find out about the smart animals who found their way to safety and the farmers who helped to rescue them in this graphic adventure of animal escape. Then, learn about other animals...
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