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Author
Publisher
UXL
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Covers the different civilizations and peoples of Medieval times; includes biographical essays on significant individuals of the era; and presents a collection of excerpts from relevant letters, journal entries, poems and more from the era.
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Return to the sumptuous, global feast of fantasy fiction with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's selection of modern masterpieces. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties--and beyond, into the twenty-first century--the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula...
Publisher
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A fascinating exploration of art created by the varied Armenian kingdoms that connected the East and West during the Middle Ages. As the first people to officially convert to Christianity, Armenians commissioned and produced astonishing religious objects. This sumptuous volume depicts and contextualizes the compelling works of art that defined the rich and complicated culture of medieval Armenians, including carvings, liturgical furnishings, beautifully...
Series
Library of America volume 199
Publisher
Library Classics of the United States, Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
1245) Rimrock rider
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Only a hunted fugitive stood between a logger baron and an empire of ruined ranches! When Buck Temple got out of the Territorial death house, he headed straight back to Coppertooth Pass with vengeance in his triggers. A liar's perjured testimony had cost Buck his ranch, his friends, his girl -- and almost his life. But there was more behind that frame-up than Buck realized. It took a bushwhacker's bullet to show Buck that he was in a bigger fight...
Series
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony. Some may know that the country produces talented baseball players and musicians; others that it is a prime destination for beach...
1249) The golden spoon
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eagle Bar, an outpost fabricated on dreams, gold, and greed. In this burgeoning boomtown, strangers become family, friends turn to enemies, and the fever pitch for gold permeates the air they breathe. Charlie and Cassie Vincent arrive to make their fortune feeding hungry miners at the Golden Spoon. Matthew Ramsey comes to prove greed has no hold on him as he gets sucked into building a gambling empire. And preying over it all like a black widow spider...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"The epic true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a multi-millionaire. The press calls him "King of the Bootleggers,"...
Author
Publisher
Visible Ink
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to the present, and it busted out of the genre ghetto of science fiction and barged its way into the mainstream. What used to be mere fantasy (Trips to the moon? Wristwatch radios? Supercomputers capable of learning?) are now everyday...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
""I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too." Inspired by these few words, spoken by Josephine Baker at the 1963 March on Washington, MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellow and bestselling author Hanif Abdurraqib has written a profound and lasting reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture. Each moment in every performance he examines--whether it's the twenty-seven seconds...
Author
Publisher
Family Tree Books, an imprint of F & W Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From Ireland to Italy, Portugal to Poland, Germany to Greece, and everywhere in between, explore your ancestors' European homelands through more than 200 gorgeous reproductions of 18th-century maps, 19th-century and early 20th-century maps. These full-color period maps--covering the peak years of European immigration to America--will help you understand changing boundaries in ancestral countries, and inform your search for genealogical records.
Publisher
Universe Publishing, a Division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the film critics of The New York Times come these uncut, original reviews of the most popular and influential movies ever made--from the talkies to blockbusters like Chicago and The Wizard of Oz from timeless classics like Casablanca and Notorious, to beloved foreign films by Truffaut and Kurosawa, Fellini and Almodovar. The reviews reflect Hollywood history at its best. In addition, this volume includes: Full cast and production credits for...