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"Many young readers will identify with the day-to-day trepidation felt by Jess, Meriwether, and the other families living on the base."
-VOYA, 3Q 4P M J
"Full of detail about Army life, Patterson's elegant prose brings readers deep inside Jess's conflicted point of view and the many stresses she is under, as she reevaluates her role as a member of a military family."
-Publishers Weekly
"Patterson poignantly depicts war's effect on those at home...
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Sisters is the first major history of the pivotal role played by nuns in the building of American society. Nuns were the first feminists, argues Fialka. They became the nation's first cadre of independent, professional women. Some nursed, some taught, and many created and managed new charitable organizations, including large hospitals and colleges.
In the 1800s nuns moved west with the frontier, often starting the first hospitals and schools in...
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Memphis, Tennessee. The early 1950s. The Mississippi rolls by, and there's a train in the night. Down on Beale Street there's hard-edged blues, on the outskirts of town they're pickin' hillbilly boogie.
At Sam Phillips' Sun Records studio on Union Avenue, there's something different going on. "Shake it, baby, shake it!" "Go, cat, go!" "We're gonna rock..."
This is where rock 'n' roll was born-the record company that launched Elvis Presley, Jerry...
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A partir de una firma que figura en el Acta de Independencia mexicana, y de la curiosidad que dio origen a una larga investigación, surge este libro que pretende reconstruir a un personaje apenas conocido; de entre todos los firmantes de dicha Acta, Isidro Ignacio Icaza Iraeta fue referido por la historia simplemente como el que había sido jesuita, y aunque fue prácticamente ágrafo -lo cual ha dificultado especialmente conocer sus inquietudes...
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From the author of the definitive heavy metal history, Bang Your Head, a behind-the-scenes look a century of horror films
Reel Terror is a love letter to the wildly popular yet still misunderstood genre that churns out blockbusters and cult classics year after year. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Paranormal Activity, Konow explores its all-time highs and lows, why the genre has been overlooked, and how horror films just might help us overcome...
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Ob bekannte Namen wie Virginia Woolf, Marlene Dietrich und Hildegard von Bingen oder bisher (zu Unrecht) unbekanntere wie die der andalusischen Prinzessin Wallāda bint al-Mustakfī, der:des Womanizer:in Catterina Vizzani, der chinesischen Intellektuellen Wu Zao oder der trans* Aktivistin Marsha P. Johnson, die am Stonewall-Aufstand beteiligt war: Kirsty Loehr versammelt sie und noch viele weitere queere Frauen in ihrem außergewöhnlichen Hörbuch...
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An eye-opening and heroic story of pioneering heart surgeons, structured around eleven operations.
For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate on.
Then, in the late nineteenth century, medics began going where no one had dared go before. The following decades saw the mysteries of the heart exposed, thanks to pioneering surgeons, brave patients...
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A richly woven biography of the beloved patriot Betsy Ross, and an enthralling portrait of everyday life in Revolutionary War-era Philadelphia
Betsy Ross and the Making of America is the first comprehensively researched and elegantly written biography of one of America's most captivating figures of the Revolutionary War. Drawing on new sources and bringing a fresh, keen eye to the fabled creation of "the first flag," Marla R. Miller thoroughly reconstructs...
10) Island of ghosts
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Ariantes is a Sarmatian, a barbarian warrior-prince, uprooted from his home and customs and thrust into the honorless lands of the Romans. The victims of a wartime pact struck with the emperor Marcus Aurelius to ensure the future of Sarmatia, Ariantes and his troop of accomplished horsemen are sent to Hadrian's Wall. Unsurprisingly, the Sarmatians hate Britain--an Island of Ghosts, filled with pale faces, stone walls, and an uneasy past.
Struggling...
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In Bottom of the Ninth, Michael Shapiro brings to life a watershed moment in baseball history, when the sport was under siege in the late 1950s
"A fascinating look at an almost forgotten era . . . One of the best baseball books of recent seasons." -Cleveland Plain Dealer
Shapiro reveals how the legendary executive Branch Rickey saw the game's salvation in two radical ideas: the creation of a third major league-the Continental League-and the pooling...
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En la introducción, Carlos Escalante, coordinador de este libro dice que una de las herencias que dejó la Colonia en los países de América fue una amplia población que no sabía leer ni escribir. Acorde con el pensamiento liberal de las élites latinoamericanas, los primeros gobiernos tuvieron que enfrentar la cruda realidad de una población mayoritaria que no tenía derecho a la ciudadanía por no estar alfabetizada. Dado que este problema...
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Los autores, abordan las distintas facetas del ciclo agrícola del maíz verificado en el valle de Toluca, así como la relación que guardan con el ciclo de fiestas católicas. A partir del material etnográfico reportado en diversas localidades del valle de Toluca, los estudios que aquí se presentan intentan dar cuenta de la persistencia de la actividad agrícola y de los cambios que experimentaría en el orden ideológico y ritual a raíz de la...
14) Ancient Syria:A Fascinating History of the Eblaites and Akkadians through the Arameans, Assyrians
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Ancient Syria Syria, a land steeped in history, has served as a cradle of civilization for millennia. This region, rich in culture and strategic significance, has witnessed the rise and fall of many great empires. From the ancient Eblaites to the Byzantine era, each civilization has left an indelible mark on the fabric of Syrian history.This book aims to explore these diverse epochs, focusing on the unique contributions and interactions of the Eblaites,...
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Dutch voyagers from 1599 through the middle 1700s discovered many of the major island groups in the Pacific, including Australia, Easter Island, Fiji, Hawai`i, New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga. Three of those expeditions went east to west around Cape Horn and were led by independent adventurers who challenged the monopoly of the Dutch East India Company, in hopes of finding an alternate route to lucrative spice trading ports. Some also acted as pirates...
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Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit! Delivering belly laughs, hee-haws, and downright slackjaw amazement, this hilarious guide to the homeland of George W. and Willie Nelson is the essential how-to for surviving in the Lone Star State. From strange Texas laws and the history of Dr. Pepper to "Texas Talk" (in which a "turd floater" is a heavy downpour) and final-meal requests by death row inmates, Kinky Friedman, "the oldest living Jew in Texas...
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Il y a d'abord une évidence: les services que les prisons sont censées rendre ne compenseront jamais les torts qu'elles causent. Depuis les années 1960, ce constat d'un immense gâchis a amené un vaste mouvement à œuvrer à l'abolitionnisme pénal: en finir avec toutes les prisons, mais aussi avec les autres institutions qui forment le système pénal, comme la police et les tribunaux. Ce projet politique poursuit ainsi un objectif ambitieux...
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By ones, twos, and threes, in the years before the Civil War thousands of enslaved people slipped through the night on their way to freedom, riding the Underground Railroad. Hidden and hunted, the escape of southern slaves to the North remains a compelling event in American history. Within the pages of this book are documented, in prose and elegantly articulate photographs, examples of "stations" on the Railroad, along with images of the routes, lives,...
19) Ruimtewedloop
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It is 2350. For more than two centuries, humanity has spread across the stars. FTL technology has opened a galaxy for exploitation and settlement. Untold wealth and the endless frontier have enabled both unprecedented human unity and a diaspora unlike any seen before in our history. The galactic face of our species is the democratic federation known as the Commonwealth of Humanity. The endeavours and exploits of its Starpatrol pioneers are legendary.Captain...
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After a snap general election is called, Christopher, a campaign organiser for the Liberal Party, is sent to a Scottish island to campaign in a previously safe seat. He discovers upon arrival that one of the island?s former MPs has been living out of sight for a rather long time, haunted by personal tragedy and determined to make good on a promise to open a door to another world. Christopher finds himself asking what the truly Liberal course of action...
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