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"His political ideals shaped by two presidential ancestors-great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams-Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to the First World War. Printed privately in 1907 and published to wide acclaim shortly after the author's death in 1918, The Education of Henry Adams is a brilliant, idiosyncratic blend of autobiography and history that...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
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xvii, 396 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians. In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects they've come to so intimately know and understand: David McCullough on John Adams, Jon Meacham on Thomas Jefferson, Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton,...
3) Heartwishes
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Series
Edilean series volume 5
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Historian Gemma Ranford and Colin Frazier must work together to find the Heartwishes stone that's been missing for over one hundred years--and with an international thief also on the hunt, the clock is ticking. Because in the wrong hands, no one named Frazier will ever be safe.
4) Timeline
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Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
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1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A group of present-day archeology students are stunned to discover a handwritten plea for help dated April 2, 1357...from their own professor. He's been blasted back in time to the 14th century. To rescue him, they must travel back and survive one of the most violent battles in world history--and make it back to the 21st century alive.
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Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Winding through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey, the battlefields of Belgium during World War I, and the faded Knickerbocker Hotel in 1960s Hollywood, The Electric Hotel follows the intertwined fates of the cinematographer Claude Ballard and his muse, Sabine Montrose"--
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John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining 20th-century transformation, the dismantling of legally-protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, and he was, and remains, an active participant. Born in 1915, he could not but participate: evicted from whites-only train cars, confined to segregated schools, and threatened--once with lynching. And yet he managed to receive a...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
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xii, 450 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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"Exploring the diverse make-up of our country's DNA through interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning historians, diplomats, music legends, and sports giants, The American Experiment captures the dynamic arc of a young country reinventing itself in real-time. Through these enlightening conversations, the American spirit comes alive, revealing the setbacks, suffering, invention, ingenuity, and social movements that continue to shape our vision of what...
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Lottie Albright mysteries volume 1
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When false accusations threaten senatorial candidate Hadley's career, secrets whispered to Lottie as editor of the county history books spur a personal search for his aunt's murderer. Will the cold case prove her merits as a deputy-- or endanger her life?
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Eric Steele novels volume 3
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Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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490 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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"Special operative Eric Steele hunts a foreign assassin targeting top-tier US military personnel in the third electrifying military thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of All Out War"--
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Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
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"Carter G. Woodson was born ten years after the end of the Civil War, to parents who had both been enslaved. Their stories were not the ones written about in history books, but Carter learned them and kept them in his heart. Carter's father could not read or write, but he believed in being an informed citizen. So Carter read the newspaper to him every day, and from this practice, he learned about the world and how to find out what he didn't know....
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
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336 pages cm
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"A comedic novel about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French husband, returning to her native San Francisco to pick up the life she left behind, and the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren"--
12) Cactus heart
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In this "prequel" to the popular David Mapstone mysteries, author Jon Talton takes us back to 1999, when everything dot-com was making money, the Y2K bug was the greatest danger facing the world, and the good times seemed as if they would never end.
It was a time before David and Lindsey were together, before Mike Peralta was sheriff, and before David had rid himself of the sexy and mysterious Gretchen.
In Phoenix, it's the sweet season and Christmas...
13) Tell me no lies
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
763 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Illuminates the achievements of the nineteenth-century historian, writer, and intellectual, discussing Adams's relationships with political leaders inside and outside of his family and his witness to the dawn of modern America.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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A first-generation Ivy League student uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death.
"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill,...
16) Sashenka
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
522 p. ; 25 cm.
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In early twentieth-century Russia, Sashenka Zeitlin becomes caught up in the revolutionary fervor destined to bring down the czar, as she deals with arrest and imprisonment, the bloody battles that engulf the country under Stalin, and a forbidden love affair.
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Thursday Next novels volume 6
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 362 pages : ill., map ; 22 cm
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It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?
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Pink Carnation novels volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
viii, 388 p. ; 24 cm.
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Leaving Harvard to complete her dissertation on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian in England, Eloise Kelly discovers information about the most elusive spy of all time, a figure who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion.
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Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
p2001
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6 CDs (ca. 6 hrs.) : digital, stero, Dolby processed ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell discuss the themes and roots of human myth which is seen as man's attempt to relate himself to the universe. Starting with various topics Campbell shows both how man creates his universe and is controlled by the myth he has created.
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