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New Titles - History
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Lessons of the Pandemic: Disruption, Innovation, and What Schools Need to Move Forward
David T. Marshall - The Guilford Press Format: Paperback
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The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 education have been pervasive and profound. This engaging book concisely outlines the current crisis in schools in the core areas of student learning, student and teacher mental health, and teacher burnout. Synthesizing original research, David... |
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A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime
Casey Sherman - Sourcebooks Format: Hardcover
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The dark story behind the bright lights of TinseltownFrom the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all -- a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortune that most people could only dream of. But when the famous femme fatale began dating... |
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A Brief History of Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation
Yaroslav Hrytsak - PublicAffairs Format: Hardcover
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A "pioneering and fundamental" (Timothy Snyder) new history of Ukraine from one of its leading public intellectuals. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the "creative, freewheeling, darkly humorous, and deeply resilient society" that is contemporary... |
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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
Marion Gibson - Scribner Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate the pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history.. Witchcraft is a dramatic journey through... |
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Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
Islam Issa - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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An original, authoritative, and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day.. Islam Issa's father had always told him about their city's magnificence, and as he looked at the new library in Alexandria it finally hit home. This is no ordinary... |
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The Book of Facts and Trivia: American History
Terri Schlichenmeyer - Visible Ink Press Format: Paperback
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Entertaining, informative, and fun. Educational, trivial, and profound. Astonishing, amazing, and surprising. That's history! Take a weird and wonderful tour of American history with this treat of stories, trivia, and facts!. From Juan Ponce de León to John Wayne to Jane Doe to the little-known... |
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Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile
Fiona Maddocks - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, set against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.. In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian... |
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Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
Francesca Peacock - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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A biography of the remarkable - and in her time scandalous - seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, who pioneered the science fiction novel.. "My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world." - Margaret Cavendish Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born... |
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