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2461) American odyssey
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ten years have passed since Jack Picaro lost his Ghost Rifle--the firearm he invented...The loss of the rifle calmed the hellraiser in his soul...Then, after helping rescue U.S. soldiers...Jack hears the familiar bell-like report of his Ghost Rifle. Determined to retrieve his deadly property, he travels deep into Lakota territory...unaware of what awaits him when he eventually returns home to his family"--
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"With the wit and penetration well known to readers of Balzac's Omelette and Monsieur Proust's Library, Anka Muhlstein's PEN AND BRUSH revisits the delights of the French novel. This time she focuses on late 19th- and 20th-century writers--Balzac, Zola, Proust, Huysmans, and Maupassant--through the lens of their passionate involvement with the fine arts. She delves into the crucial role that painters play as characters in their novels, which she pairs...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
At the dawn of the 21st century, American artists are taking self-expression and the artistic process into uncharted territory. Today's artists are engaging the world and their audiences in vital and surprising new ways. They use an enormous variety of media and draw on sources ranging from pop culture and politics to ethnic heritage, classical models, and deeply personal life experiences. The artists featured in the series represent a cross-section...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Discovering your first words in Spanish and English is easy and fun with this cheerful board book with bright collage illustrations that introduce colours, numbers, shapes, animals, and more! Your little learner will discover that azul means blue, cinco means five, and caballo means horse along with many other everyday words.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publications
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A paradigm-shifting book from Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta, who brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to history, education, money, power, and sustainability-and offers a new template for living"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style--thorough, yet riveting--famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old...
2473) Traitors Gate
Author
Series
William Warwick novels volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, when the Queen attends the State Opening of Parliament, the Metropolitan Police must execute the most secret operation in their armory as they transport the Crown Jewels across London. For decades, the elite squad at Scotland Yard have been in charge of the operation. And for decades, it's run like clockwork. But this year, everything is about to change....
Author
Series
Publisher
Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europeand then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and the outcome of the American Revolution? How did the fabled...
2476) Bone rattle
Author
Series
Arliss Cutter novels volume 3
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In Juneau, a young Native archeologist is sent to protect the ancient burial sites uncovered by an Alaskan gold mining company. He never returns. In Anchorage, a female torso--minus head, hands, and feet--is washed ashore near a jogging trail by the airport. It is not the first. At Alaska's Fugitive Task Force, Arliss Cutter and deputy Lola Teariki are pulled from their duties and sent to a federal court in Juneau. Instead of tracking dangerous fugitives,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gregorio tells [Katharine] Clark's story in engaging, well-researched and vivid detail...an eloquent tribute." —Wall Street Journal
If you loved Kate Moore's The Radium Girls, Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance, or Rebecca Donner's All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, you'll be enthralled with this untold true story of how Katharine Clark, a trailblazing journalist, exposed the truth about Communism to the world.
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...2479) Bittersweet
Author
Publisher
Avon/Bard
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Two women support each other in Nevada against the harsh reality of the ninteenth-century Old West.
Author
Series
Poppy McAllister mystery volume 7
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Poppy and her Aunt Ginny attend the auction, hoping to bid on an armoire for the B&B, and discover a veritable armory for sale--everything from ancient blades and nineteenth century guns...Then during the auction, a body falls out of the very armoire Poppy was hoping to acquire, stabbed through the heart. Now, surrounded by competitive dealers and makeshift weapons, she must find out who turned the auction house into a slaughterhouse"--
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