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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"A product of Anglo-American capitalism, built by a generation that had never known trauma and was bored by its own prosperity and success, the Titanic set sail into a world that was about to change forever. Modernity was shaking the class system, the Industrial Revolution was creating new kinds of wealth, and revolutionary fervor would lead to The Great War. Exploring the infamous disaster from the perspectives of six of her first-class passengers--a...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 1227 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Catching the Wind, called "one of the truly great biographies of our time," comes the second volume of the epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy-in which America's tectonic shift toward conservatism leaves Kennedy the lone powerful voice in the fight to advance protection for the poor and working-class. In Against the Wind, Ted Kennedy enters 1975 no longer in his brothers' shadow but as a force in his own right, having assumed...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
CRIMSON STAIN is the shocking true story of murder in an Old-Order Amish community. The ritualistic murder of Katie Gingerich in rural Pennsylvania set into motion a clash of Amish and modern values about mental illness, domestic violence, and criminal justice. CRIMSON STAIN is a window into the private and mysterious world of the Old-Order Amish. This revised and expanded edition of CRIMSON STAIN tells the shocking and tragic story of the Gingerich...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documents the efforts of the first American ambassador to Hitler's Germany, William E. Dodd, to acclimate to a residence in an increasingly violent city where he is forced to associate with the Nazis while his daughter pursues a relationship with Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 587 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. It continues to be obscured by fiction and myth, as personified by the heroic, gallant but doomed 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' pitted against the heartless victor, 'Butcher' Cumberland. In the years 1745-46, nothing was certain. While utilizing past and recent scholarship, this account draws extensively on a wealth of contemporary sources, revealing the thoughts and feelings of the most...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered un-numbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his American wife, Wallis Simpson, the bizarre wartime Nazi plot to make him a puppet king after the invasion of Britain, and the attempted cover-up by Churchill, General Eisenhower, and King George VI of the duke's relations with Hitler. From the alleged affair between Simpson and the German foreign minister to the discovery of top secret correspondence about the man...
13) John Brown
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
2001 Modern Library pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
xxix, 266 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 577 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A narrative chronicle of World War I's Arab Revolt explores the pivotal roles of a small group of adventurers and low-level officers who orchestrated a secret effort to control the Middle East, demonstrating how they instigated jihad against British forces, built an elaborate intelligence ring and forged ties to gain valuable oil concessions.