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"A large-hearted reimagining of beloved all-American legends, this epic debut novel brings men of myth Paul Bunyan and John Henry alive like never before, teaming up for an adventure quest with deeper interrogations of race, class, and industrialization. When we first meet Paul Bunyan-legendary larger-than-life lumberjack and classic figure from American mythology-he is still just a man, and one down on his luck. With a load of family debts on his...
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King's fool mysteries volume 2
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"1536, London. Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is in peril. In the mid of night, court jester Will Somers is summoned to an urgent assignation when she discovers a body in her chamber. The queen wants Will to find out who the man is and how he ended up there. Is someone trying to frame her for his murder? Queen Anne has many enemies at court, and to make matters worse, Henry VIII is lining up his next conquest and suspects his queen of treason. Has...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Inspired by the life, letters, and diaries of Henry David Thoreau, Followed by the Lark shows how strikingly similar the concerns of the early nineteenth century are to our own, and reminds us to listen for news of change: the song of spring’s first bluebird, reports from those who have heard it, and all the sounds and fearful wonders that come after"--
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British Library Crime Classics volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"James Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait. Her producer, her lover, the playwright for her next hit and her agent are all here, soon to become so many suspects when Tait is found murdered on a cold December morning in the lakeside pavilion. Only the footprints of her discoverer disturb the snow which fell overnight - and which stopped just shortly after Marcia...
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Joffe Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"England, 1100s. Meet Matilda of England. Betrothed at eight. Married at twelve. And crowned Empress in her late teens. Matilda is the only legitimate daughter of Henry I of England. She's also the granddaughter of William the Conqueror and is a descendant -- through her mother -- from the ancient line of Anglo-Saxon kings. She is made a widow in her early twenties and is the only surviving heir to the throne of England. Now she must marry Geoffrey...
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Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War"--
"From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace-a perspective...
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Desde el castillo de Kimbolton, donde aguarda el final de su vida, Catalina nos narra las peligrosas intrigas de la corte y el asfixiante egoísmo de Enrique VIII, así como lo que la llevó a hacerse con el favor del pueblo inglés. En su debut en la novela histórica, Gema Bonnín nos regala por fin las palabras de una reina silenciada en vida que fue, en términos de Shakespeare, «la reina de todas las reinas»." -- page 4 of cover.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South ten years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men, who were under siege by violent paramilitary groups like the White League intent on erasing their postwar gains.
12) I never did like politics: how Fiorello La Guardia became America's mayor, and why he still matters
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A hugely entertaining celebration of one of America's greatest politicians--a source of inspiration for our equally challenging times....Fiorello La Guardia was one of the twentieth century's most colorful politicians--on the New York and national stage. He was also quintessentially American: the son of Italian immigrants, who rose in society through sheer will and chutzpah. Almost one hundred years later, America is once again grappling with issues...
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McNally Editions
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that she'd had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret would soon transfix America, for Beecher was the most famous preacher of the day, founder of the most fashionable church in Brooklyn Heights, a presidential hopeful, an influential supporter of abolition, and a leader of the campaign for women's suffrage. When Beecher tried to silence the Tiltons, it...