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1) Boston
Author
Publisher
Avalon Travel
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Catch a game at Fenway, watch the rowboats on the Charles, or snag a seat at the bar at the Neptune Oyster: Experience the best of Beantown with Moon Boston.
Author
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet’s Cruise Ports Caribbean is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Sip cocktails on the colorful portside of Curacao; sail into the very heart of the West Indies in down-to-earth St Kitts & Nevis; and escape the crowds on stunning St John; all with your trusted travel companion. Discover the best of the Caribbean and begin your journey now!
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this heartfelt story of his own family's greatest generation: his parents, the legendary broadcast journalist relates his mother's can-do spirit and his father's philosophy of 'never give up,' which enabled them to survive the Great Depression and WWII and help build the American century.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A highly readable narrative of the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish Conquest, incorporating the perspectives of many Native groups, Black slaves, and the conquistadors. Five hundred years ago, a flotilla landed on the coast of Yucatán under the command of the Spanish conquistador Hérnan Cortés. While the official goal of the expedition was to explore and to expand the Christian faith, everyone involved knew that it was primarily...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The thrilling true story of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of the great gang of outlaws. The Dalton Gang consisted of four brothers and their rotating cast of accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James Gang. They soon became legends themselves, beginning their career as common horse thieves,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Horizontal Vertigo: the title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes, which led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flâneur, Villoro wanders through the city seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things, while brilliantly drawing connections among them, the better to reveal, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of Mexico...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, Missouri, the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West. James Butler Hickock was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. He crossed paths with General Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, as well as Ben Thompson and other young...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858. Her life story, which she recounted in an oral history decades later, captures the complexity of emancipation. Based on interviews that Joyner and formerly enslaved people had with the Depression-era Federal Writers Project, historian Carole Emberton draws a portrait of the steps they took in order to feel free, something no legal mandate could instill. Joyner's life exemplifies the deeply...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this revealing biography, Andrew Kirtzman pieces together Giuliani's rise and fall from hundreds of interviews with friends, family members, White House officials, business partners, and close confidants, some of whom have never gone on the record before. He reveals new information about Giulianís role in the 2020 election debacle, his relationship with Trump, his troubled personal life, and much more.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A nuanced and deeply-reported account of the collapse of Venezuela, and what it could mean for the rest of the world. Today, Venezuela is a country of perpetual crisis--a country of rolling blackouts, nearly worthless currency, uncertain supply of water and food, and extreme poverty. In the same land where oil--the largest reserve in the world--sits so close to the surface that it bubbles from the ground, where gold and other mineral resources are...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Anne Hutchinson remains an iconic figure in early American history and women's history. American historians recognize Hutchinson as an influential religious leader ousted from Massachusetts Bay because of her outspoken criticism of the colony's clergy, and she remains one of the few women taught to school children and remembered from history lessons. She has been called a proto-feminist, a political dissident, a colonial reformer, and suffragette....
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his...
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Language
English
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Description
"When Ruby Bridges was six years old, she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. Told in the perspective of her six year old self and based on the pivotal events that happened in 1960, Ruby tells her story like never before. Embracing her name and learning that even at six years old she was able to pave the path for future generations, this is a story full of hope, innocence, and courage"--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"1619 offers a new interpretation of the significance of Jamestown in the long trajectory of American history. Jamestown, the cradle of American democracy, also saw the birth of our nation's greatest challenge: the corrosive legacy of slavery and racism that have deepened and entrenched stark inequalities in our society. After running Jamestown under martial law from 1610-1616, the Virginia Company turned toward representative government in an effort...
19) H is for Harlem
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A richly informative alphabet picture book celebrating Harlem's vibrant traditions, past and present"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who...