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‘Who says that daughters cannot be heroic?’ Once upon a time, history was written by men, for men and about men. Women were deemed less important, their letters destroyed, their stories ignored. Not any more. This is the story of women who went to war, women who stopped war and women who stayed at home. The rulers. The fighters. The activists. The writers. This is the story of Wu Zetian, who as ‘Chinese Emperor’ helped to spread Buddhism in...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle...
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Killing volume 13
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English
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"Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested under suspicion of being witches--but as the hysteria...
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The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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xiv, 541 pages ; illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
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English
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Designated in 2016 by President Obama and reduced to 85 percent of its original size one year later by President Trump, Bears Ears National Monument continues to be a flash point of conflict among ranchers, miners, environmental groups, states’ rights advocates, and Native American activists. In this volume, Andrew Gulliford synthesizes 11,000 years of the region’s history to illuminate what’s truly at stake in this conflict and distills this...
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
7) Elon Musk
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"When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies ... But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist. His father's impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission,...
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2023
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English
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Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the World.
Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the better part of a year as he struggled to regain his senses and mobility. By the time he returned home,...
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"From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland, a history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power The United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Salem witch trials to the Satanic Panic, Illuminati and QAnon, one of the most enduring narratives that defines the United States is simply this: secret...
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Utah Centennial County History Series history of Grand County, Utah. Contents: General Introduction; Introduction; Geography and geologic history; Climate, ancient life, and natural history; Early humans in the region; The historic period: Native Americans and the first Europeans; Attempted colonization and first settlement years, 1854-1855; Renewed white settlement: Moab in the 1870s and 1880s; The early years to 1890; Grand County: Creation and...
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Utah State University Press
Pub. Date
c2000
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394 p. ; ill. (some col).
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English
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A history of Utah's first residents from an Indian perspective. Includes chapters on each of the state's six official tribes: origin stories, religion, politics, education, folkways, family, social activities, economic issues, and important events.
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Utah State Historical Society
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English
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Utah Centennial County History Series history of San Juan County, Utah. Contents: Introduction; Understanding the Saga of San Juan; The Geography and Place Names of San Juan County; An Overview of the Prehistory of San Juan County; Setting the Foundation, A.D. 1100 to 1880; Early Entrants into the San Juan Country; Homesteading and City-building, 1880-1940; Navajo Conflict and Boundary Expansion, 1880-1933; The Ute and Paiute Experience, 1880-1933;...
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Compost Press
Pub. Date
1994
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61 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
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A history of the town of Moab and Canyon Country as seen through a Coyote's eyes. Do you want to know ... : where Moab's name really came from? ... why Moab wasn't founded by Mormon settlers like the rest of Utah? ... who made Moab an atomic boomtown? ... when Moab hosted a concentration camp? ... when Moab was almost submerged by a major dam? ... when Moab declared war on wilderness? ... who put Moab on the literary map?
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Radiant emperor volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after her victory that tore southern China from its Mongol masters. Now she burns with a new desire: to seize the throne and crown herself emperor. But Zhu isn't the only one with imperial ambitions. Her neighbor in the south, the courtesan Madam Zhang, wants the throne for her husband--and she's strong enough to wipe Zhu off the map. To stay in the game, Zhu will have to gamble everything on a risky...
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2023.
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English
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"Some of humanity's mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale--and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural engineer Roma Agrawal examines seven of these extraordinary elements: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the magnet, the lens, the string, and the pump. Tracing the evolution from Egyptian nails to modern skyscrapers, and Neanderthal string to musical instruments,...
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Canyonland Natural History Association
Pub. Date
c2010
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ix, 141 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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English
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In the early 1900s much of southern Utah was still untamed, unnamed and unexplored. To a bold adventurous boy like Bill Tibbetts, the place was magic. Cowboys still bucked-out wild horses and chased renegade bands of Indians that skulked through mountain shadows or up canyons cradling ancient cliff dwellings. The story of Bill Tibbetts, who overcame the travails of being a wanted man in a hostile land, is a nostalgic read of hard times in the old...
19) Grand memories
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Utah Printing Company
Pub. Date
c1972
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314 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
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English
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The New Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xiv, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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English
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In this explosive new book, historian Benjamin Weber reveals how the story of American prisons is inextricably linked to the expansion of American power around the globe.
A vivid work of hidden history that spans the wars to subjugate Native Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, the conquest of the western territories, and the creation of an American empire in Panama, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, American Purgatory reveals how “prison imperialism”—the...
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