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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xvii, 830 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Chronicles the history of fourteen lost European kingdoms and what their stories can teach the modern world, providing narrative accounts of the rise and fall of nations ranging from Tolosa to the Soviet Union.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
314 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"The merchant kings of the Age of Heroic Commerce were a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life men who, for a couple hundred years, expanded their far-flung commercial enterprises over a sizable portion of the world. They include Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the violent and autocratic pioneer of the Dutch East India Company; Peter Stuyvesant, the one-legged governor of the Dutch West India Company, whose narrow-minded approach lost Manhattan to the British;...
64) The Decameron
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Formats
Description
A 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio, told as a frame story coveriing 100 tales by ten young people. The bawdy tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Includes tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons and also documents life in 14th-century Italy.
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Series
Montague siblings volume 3
Description
Desperate to escape his father's high expectations and his own grief in the aftermath of his mother's passing, sole heir Adrian Montague embarks on a search for his disowned siblings after discovering that he is not an only child.
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"A thirty-year-old woman retraces her gap year through Ireland, France, and Italy to find love-and herself-in this hilarious and heartfelt novel. It's been seven years since Chelsea Martin embarked on her yearlong post-college European adventure. Since then, she's lost her mother to cancer and watched her sister marry twice, while Chelsea's thrown herself into work, becoming one of the most talented fundraisers for the American Cancer Coalition, and...
67) Bronze summer
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Series
Northland trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Physical Desc
454 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
The prosperous people of Northland, a linear city hundreds of miles long created by the building of a Wall to hold back both the North Sea and the empires of the Bronze Age, contend with a threat from the East when decades of drought bring instability to the Eastern civilizations.
69) The Renaissance
Author
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill., map ; 24 cm.
Description
Presents a tour of Renaissance Europe, discussing facts about fashion, diet, houses, religion, politics, culture, transportation, crime, and illness.
70) The Renaissance
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 28 cm.
Description
An introduction to the various elements of Renaissance life, including religion, trade, education, food, and clothes.
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"As World War II raged, millions of young Jewish people were caught up in the horrors of the Nazis' Final Solution. Many readers know of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state's genocidal campaign against European Jews and others of so-called "inferior" races. Yet so many of the individual stories remain buried in time. Of those who endured the Holocaust, some were caught by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps, some hid right under Hitler's nose, some...
72) Black order
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Series
Sigma Force novels volume 3
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Description
A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany . . . and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland. A continent away, madness...
76) The keep
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Formats
Description
From National Book Award finalist Egan comes a spellbinding work of literary suspense enacted in a chilling psychological landscape.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xvi, 368 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China--then the world's most technologically advanced civilization--provided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. From that date onward, Europeans...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xviii, 234 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"An evocative and timely collection of essays that paints a portrait of Eastern Europe thirty years after the end of communism. An immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje, a memorial ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet led army invasion of Prague: these are a few glimpses of life in Eastern Europe today. Three decades after the Velvet Revolution, Slavenka Drakulic, the...
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