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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (11 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders--Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton--to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, twenty years her senior, it was the match of the season--no matter that he was not the husband Eliza wanted. Now, ten years later, Eliza is widowed. Suddenly, she is left titled, rich, and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. She's always lived by society's conventions, but now, Eliza has resolved to do as she wants. And what she wants is to head to...
Author
Publisher
WestWinds Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Treasure Trove of Useful (and just plain FUN) INFORMATION about Colorado's mountain country.
We're not just talking about population figures, elevation stats, or lists of Fourteeners and rivers (although these are included).
You will learn far more including mountain lexicons (so that you’ll know what a gutter bunny, potato chip, and prune really mean), Colorado as a movie set, Colorado songs, skiing, fishing, avalanches, geology, historic districts,...
64) The fraud
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper-and cousin by marriage-of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Published by Oxford University Press in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows relied on new and exhaustive research to tell the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history. On September 11, 1857, southern Utah settlers slaughtered morethan 100 emigrants of a California-bound wagon train. In this much-anticipated sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown follow up that volume with an examination of the aftermath of the...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter Letters from an American, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy--and how we can turn back. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. The essays soon turned into a newsletter and, spread by word...
Author
Publisher
Fulcrum Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 327 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Water holds an underexploited capacity to show the connections that tie together distant places and seemingly unrelated groups. This book literally goes to town to spotlight those connections. A Ditch in Time: The City, the West, and Water traces the history of water in Denver, using this case study to explore important and often underrecognized patterns in regional and national history. Energized by a quality of wit and humor rarely encountered...
68) Three fires
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar living in Florence at the end of the fifteenth century. An anti-corruption campaigner, his hellfire preaching increasingly spilled over into tirades against all luxuries that tempted his followers toward sin. ... Mina brings a modern take to this ... historical story, drawing parallels between the febrile atmosphere of medieval Florence and the culture wars of the present day. In dramatizing the life and...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
349 pages
Language
English
Description
"A riveting 1920s Hollywood thriller about the making of the most terrifying silent film ever made, and a deadly search for the single copy rumored still to exist. This is the breakout from Craig Russell, author of The Devil Aspect. 1927: Mary Rourke-a Hollywood studio fixer-is called urgently to the palatial home of Norma Carlton, one of the most recognizable stars in American silent film. Norma has been working on the secret film everyone is openly...
Author
Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The conquest of Mexico is over, and Juan de Tonanes is just one of the many inglorious soldiers eking a small existence on the land he helped conquer. When he receives one last mission, to hunt down a renegade Indian who calls himself the Padre and preaches a dangerous heresy, Juan realizes it may be his last chance to create the future he’s always dreamed of. But as he moves deep into the unexplored northern territory, hot on the Padre’s...
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Language
English
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"To finally end the war between their nations, a rogue band of Ukranian partisans known as the Wolves teams up with members of Russia's military intelligence to assassinate Vladimir Putin. But Putin is aware of the traitors in his midst and assigns the loyal commander of the Russian National Guard to root them out. It's a mission Victor Petrov is expected to undertake after he prevents Sweden from joining NATO--by assassinating a deputy minister of...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxii, 518 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Pulitzer Prize finalist for history Watergate, comes the first comprehensive and eye-opening exploration of our government’s decades-long quest to solve one of humanity’s greatest mysteries: Are we alone in the universe?
For as long as we have looked to the skies, the question of whether life on Earth is the only life to exist has been at the...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
xiii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A lively and provocative history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live.
From rustic cottages reached by steamboat to big box stores at the exit ramps of eight-lane highways, Dolores Hayden defines seven eras of suburban development since 1820. An urban historian and architect, she portrays housewives and politicians as well as designers and builders making the decisions that have generated America’s diverse suburbs....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxii, 376 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war--and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated. Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers [an] ... account of this conflict, its origins, course, and the already...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
197 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
"¿Por qué eres así, México? ¿Quién te hizo tanto daño? Preguntas de esta naturaleza requieren delicados estudios socio-antropológicos para perfilar respuestas adecuadas. Pero como en el país nadie apoya la investigación, lo que tenemos es a un ingeniero chihuahuense proponiendo (pésimas) teorías y exponiendo sus (evidentísimos) traumas personales en el proceso. Un poco de historia, un poco de análisis, un mucho de que nos valga madres...
77) A grave robbery
Author
Series
Veronica Speedwell mystery volume 9
Language
English
Description
"Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would...
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (69 min.) : sd. & si., b&w and col. tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([7] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
Russian
Description
Sergei Eisenstein was commissioned by the Soviet government to make a movie commemorating the failed uprising of 1905, a mere 20 years after the actual incident. Eisenstein duly hails as heroes the people whose actions were regarded as traitorous in 1905. It began when sailors on the Potemkin protested that the meat they were being fed was maggot infested. In response, the commander ordered that ten random sailors to be executed by firing squad,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A National Book Award-winning, New York Times best-selling historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America. Harriet Tubman, forced to labour outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women's basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
370 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Spring 1933: The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking's Forbidden City, for centuries the home of Chinese emperors, are tense with fear and expectation. Japan's aircrafts drone overhead, its troops and tanks are only hours away. All-out war between China and Japan is coming, and the curators of the Forbidden City are faced with an impossible question: how will they protect the vast imperial art collections in their charge? A difficult and monumental...
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