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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion - the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
While helping her father empty her beloved grandmother's house, 13-year-old Liv finds an old chest that reveals Oma's involvement in the Dutch resistance during WWII and learns what it means to be brave and go above and beyond to offer someone else a life of dignity, happiness and freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 410 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America's modern special operations forces. The Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, among others. However, as bestselling author Patrick K. O'Donnell reveals in The Unvanquished, a vital shadow...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
288 pages, 72 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Willie G. Davidson likes to say that he was born with gasoline in his veins and a crayon in each hand. A designer at heart, Davidson combined his passions for art and motorcycles to extend a multigenerational unbroken thread from Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company's birth in a wooden shed in the early twentieth century to today. The grandson of one of the company's founders and the son of one of its longtime presidents, Davidson created a series...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Long before she became known as the Cactus Queen, Minerva Hamilton Hoyt found solace in the unexpected beauty of the Mojave Desert in California. She loved the jackrabbits and coyotes, the prickly cacti, and especially the weird, spiky Joshua trees. However, in the 1920s, hardly anyone else felt the same way. The desert was being thoughtlessly destroyed by anyone and everyone. Minerva knew she needed to bring attention to the problem. With the help...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xv, 333 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the development of American arms manufacturing and how ingenuity and inventiveness made the United States the major arms supplier to the world beginning in the mid-nineteenth century"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
296 pages : 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812--a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation, and the desperate struggle for survival. Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans, including the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnard, abandoned in the barren, windswept, and inhospitable Falklands for a year and a half. With deft narrative skill and...
10) An emancipation of the mind: radical philosophy, the war over slavery, and the refounding of America
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a story about a dangerous idea-one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition movement-the idea that allmen are created equal"--
12) Aloha everything
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Ano, a courageous young girl, begins to dance the hula--a storytelling dance form that carries the knowledge, history and folklore of the Hawaiian people, she comes to understand the true meaning of aloha"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Chasing the Stars traces the history of the University of Wisconsin's Washburn Observatory, where some of the world's most cutting-edge astronomical inventions were born. Learn about the earliest Indigenous stargazers, the women who worked as the first human computers, the astronomers who sold time by the stars, the scientists who shrank the Milky Way, and the crucial role Wisconsin astronomers played in the development of modern astrophysics and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.
15) Highcliffe house
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The last thing Anna Lane wants to do is spend a week in Brighton with Graham Everett, who is hoping to make a financial investment with her father, but then she discovers a hidden warmth in her one-time rival in this enemies-to-lovers romance"--
"The daughter of a wealthy investor and a handsome young businessman clash in this enemies-to-lovers romance from the author who brought you Lakeshire Park. 1813, Brighton, England When Anna Lane offered...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 346 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York-and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat-from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm ill.; cm.
Language
English
Description
"Alexander Larman, the master chronicler of the House of Windsor, brings his acclaimed trilogy to a dramatic and poignant conclusion. When the Royal Family took to the balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE Day in 1945, they knew that the happiness and excitement of the day was illusory. Britain may have been victorious in a painful war, but the peace would be no easier. Between the abdication crisis, the death of King George VI, and the ascension of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"America has broken its contract with its laboring class. So, how do we get back to the American Dream? How do we once again become the land of opportunity, the promised land where hard work and commitment to family are enough to protect you from poverty?It's not that hard actually. All it would take, as this book illustrates, is for those in power to once again respect the dignity of work-and the American worker"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow. The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military...
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