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1) The gardener of Lashkar Gah: a true story of the Afghans who risked everything to fight the Taliban
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xii, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The 20-year war fought by the US and its allies in Afghanistan is the longest war of the 21st century. It brought opportunity and tragedy for those who were forced to live through it. The abrupt withdrawal of British and American troops in 2021, in what may come to be regarded as one of the worst foreign policy failures of the past hundred years, precipitated the swift recapture of the country by the Taliban. With the withdrawal came upheaval and...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture. "They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago's South Side in the period between World Wars I and II"--
Author
Publisher
North-South Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Even the greatest poet was once a child. And so it was with Rumi. When he was young he was enchanted by birds and books. He later became a scholar, but it was the loss of his best friend, Shams, that inspired Rumi to his most important realization: Love is in us and everywhere. The Persian mystic and poet Rumi is one of the best known and most widely read poets in the world. The renowned illustrator Rashin Kheiriyeh herself comes from Iran. With this...
Author
Publisher
Amistad Books for young readers, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join Scott Yoo, renowned violinist and conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic, in, a new four-part documentary miniseries presented by Great Performances that merges music, storytelling, and travel, as he chases the secret histories of some of the greatest music ever written.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bob Harig's latest deep-dive into Tiger Woods' thrilling career, as seen through his iconic 2019 Masters comeback and win. In April of 1997, the world of golf was forever changed. At the age of 21, a young Tiger Woods won the most prestigious golf tournament in the world, the Masters, by a record of 12 strokes. Woods became the youngest golfer ever to win the Masters and the first African or Asian-American player to win a major. History had been...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 240 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Naira de Gracia's The Last Cold Place offers a dramatic, captivating window into a once-in-a-lifetime experience: a season living and working in a remote outpost in Antarctica alongside seals, penguins, and a small crew of fellow field workers. In one of the most inhospitable environments in the world (for humans, anyway), Naira follows a generation of chinstrap penguins from their parents' return to shore to build nests from pebbles until the chicks...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 331 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they have the mountain pretty well figured out. It's an extreme landscape where bad weather and incredible altitude can occasionally kill, but more so an overcrowded, trashed-out recreation destination where rich clients pad their egos--and social media feeds--while exploiting local Sherpas. There's some...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 277 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you can't fight lies with truth? Can a propaganda war ever be won? In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat his powerful propaganda machine, crowing victory and smearing his enemies...
Author
Publisher
MFF Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 246 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca Chopp never expected a routine annual checkup to uncover symptoms that ultimately revealed she has early-stage Alzheimer's disease. The news was devastating. After recovering from the shock and grappling with the changes Alzheimer's meant for her life plans, Rebecca knew the next steps: retire from her stressful job leading the University of Denver, hold on to the core of herself for as long as possible, and find ways each day to live well...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxx, 718 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this magisterial history of the continent, Kathleen DuVal traces the power of Native nations from the rise of ancient cities more than 1000 years ago to the present. She reframes North American history, noting significantly that Indigenous civilizations did not come to a halt when a few wandering explorers or hungry settlers arrived, even when the strangers came well-armed. A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 256 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America's preeminent death doula"--
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
How do you tell a story? Before Toni Morrison was a Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Prize-winning author, she was Chloe Ardelia Wofford, a little girl in Ohio who was both the only Black child in her first-grade classroom and the only student who was able to read. This is the true story of how that young girl learned from her upbringing, surrounded herself with stories, and made a tremendous impact on the world. Toni Morrison's pen was her sword,...
19) American mother
Author
Publisher
Etruscan Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
237 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "The Beatles" who plead guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son seven years before. Kotey was about to go serve life imprisonment and this was Diane's chance to talk to the man who had been involved with brutally taking her son's last breath. What would she say to his killer? What would he reveal to her? Might...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures, baseball immortal Pete Rose; and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century. Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He had compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago, which still stands. At the same...
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