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Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
409 pages
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning writer Stephen Galloway takes us behind the scenes of Lansing's epic journey?inside the battles; up close with the stars; and into the heart of a creative world populated by the likes of Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg, Jane Fonda, Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise. He shows us the velvet touch that masked the iron hand, and the roller-coaster drama behind such movies as Titanic, Forrest Gump, Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan."--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
x, 271 p. : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google can't find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the thousand threads she knots by hand. Here, where heroin is cheaper than rice, every day is a fast day. B-52s pass overhead--a sign of America's omnipotence or its vulnerability, the villagers are unsure. They know, though, that the earth is flat--like a carpet. Anna Badkhen first traveled to...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Stacey Abrams, politician and Nobel peace prize nominee, is brought to life in this poetic picture book biography that follows Abrams's fight for voters' rights. Narrated by Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Septima Clark, and Fannie Lou Hamer, this powerful story tells how Abrams's work was inspired by those luminaries before her."--
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a calm and serene world, one has the luxury of imagining what the future might look like. Now try to imagine that future when your way of life has been devastated by forces beyond your control. Iraq + 100 poses a question to Iraqi writers (those who still live in that nation, and those who have joined the worldwide diaspora): What might your home country look like in the year 2103, a century after a disastrous foreign invasion? Using science fiction,...
2566) Patria
Author
Series
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
646 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
A small Basque village is irreparably changed and broken by political fanaticism. Childhood friends, Bittori and Mirren, wounded by their craters of grief find it impossible to forget and forgive.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
304 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xi, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ronald Reagan has become synonymous with conservatism and continues to be lionized as the shining representative of the movement. But the fortieth president was no conservative ideologue. He had a complex relationship with American conservatives, and to many of his most ardent supporters he was not conservative enough. Critics complained during his time in office that he failed to bring about the promised Reagan Revolution, and in 1988 Republican...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 325 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A journalistic memoir detailing the author's firsthand experiences with immigration, gang life, and guerrilla warfare explores the violence that shaped generations of his impoverished Salvadoran family to connect today's immigration crisis to the realities of everyday families.
"The child of Salvadoran immigrants, Roberto Lovato grew up in 1970s and 80s San Francisco as Salvadoran gangs were forming in California. In his teens, he lost friends to...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 672 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The riveting, secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China. Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin's means to equalize the imbalance of resources between the East and West before, during, and after the Cold War. There was nothing "unprecedented" about...
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
xvi, 269 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The films, the stars, the filmmakers -- all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle. The story opens in the silent film era, when white actors in blackface often played black characters, but also saw the rise of independent African American filmmakers, including the remarkable Oscar Micheaux....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
582 pages
Language
English
Description
"So begins New York Times bestselling author Seth Abramson's explosive new book Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion Threatens American Democracy, a story of international intrigue whose massive cast of characters includes Israeli intelligence operatives, Russian oligarchs, Saudi death squads, American mercenary companies, Trump's innermost circle, and several members of the Trump family as well as Trump himself-all part of a clandestine...
Author
Publisher
Savas Beatie
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
384 pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
"Less than 1% of our nation will ever serve in our armed forces, leaving many to wonder what life is really like for military families. He answers the call of duty in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Pacific; she keeps the home fires burning. Worlds apart, and in the face of indescribable grief, their relationship is pushed to the limits. 15 Years of War: How the Longest War in U.S. History Affected a Military Family in Love, Loss, and the Cost Of Service...
Author
Publisher
Central Coast Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on historical evidence, this is the story of the Big Creek Project, the world's largest hydroelectric system located in the Sierra Nevada area of Big Creek, California, told from the perspective of John Eastwood from 1890-1918. Eastwood must convince Huntington to finance a project that rivalled that of the Panama Canal and which still powers California today.
Author
Publisher
Twelve, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2024].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 329 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Find Me the Votes, two years of immersive reporting by Isikoff and Klaidman has produced the most authoritative and dramatic account yet of a defeated president's conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and how a local Georgia prosecutor--a daughter of the civil rights movement--decided to indict him and his allies for his desperate attempt to hold on to power. From the beginning, Fani Willis saw Donald Trump's crimes as a voting rights case,...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Melville House edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 297 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Michael Cohen's secret payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels on behalf of Donald Trump made Cohen look like a liability to the by-then-President of the United States, the end to their decade-long relationship came swiftly--with a knock on the door from the FBI. Soon, Cohen would find himself imprisoned--even though he had plenty of evidence to show he was innocent of most of the charges. Meanwhile, with the release of the Steele Dossier, Cohen...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
226 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going into it, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such a serious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim? But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else at Camp Sunshine: the hope and determination that gets people through the most troubled of...
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