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Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, comes a riveting biography of its author, Mary Shelley, whose life reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history"--
A biography of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history. Reef discusses...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A contemporary guide to life, love, and happiness inspired by the extraordinary artist Frida Kahlo. Revered as much for her fierce spirit as she is for her art, Frida Kahlo stands today as a brazen symbol of daring creativity. She was a woman ahead of her time whose paintings have earned her generations of admirers around the globe. But perhaps her greatest work of art was her own life. What Would Frida Do? explores the feminist icon's signature...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a historical nonfiction book about Virginia Hall, an American spy in France who the Nazis dubbed "the most dangerous of allied spies." It tells the story of her youth and her work in Europe during the second world war."--
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
142 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and accomplishments of the activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and pioneering voice against the horrors of lynching who set out to better the lives of African-Americans long before the Civil Rights Movement.
Author
Publisher
Ebury Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Mongol Derby is the world's toughest horse race. An outrageous feat of endurance across the vast Mongolian plains once traversed by the army of Genghis Khan, the Derby sees competitors ride 25 horses across 1000km, and it's rare that more than half of the riders make it to the finish line. In 2013 Lara Prior-Palmer - nineteen, wildly underprepared and in search of the great unknown - decided to enter the race. Finding on the wild Mongolian steppe...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
250 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring story of one of America's greatest presidents. The fifth book in the Making of America series, Franklin D. Roosevelt examines the life of America's 32nd president: his birth into one of America's elite families, his domineering mother, his marriage to Eleanor Roosevelt, his struggle with polio, and his political career. A Democrat, Roosevelt (1882-1945) won a record four presidential elections and is the longest-serving US president....
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
34 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"An action-packed picture book biography about Hollywood actor, stuntman, and beloved superstar Jackie Chan! A great read for Chan fans hoping to share their love of Rush Hour, Supercop, and Jackie's original brand of martial arts with their ready-to-tumble tyke. Pow! Bam! Wow! Jackie Chan has been making movies and amazing audiences with his original and comedic stunts for decades. Pow! Bam! Ow! But before he was an international star, Jackie grew...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 300 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliantly conceived nonfiction epic, a war narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family. A young man from the sleepy south Indian coast, sensing adventure and opportunity, follows his brothers-in-law into the army--and onto the front lines of India's Second World War. His army fights for the British empire, even as his countrymen fight for freedom from it, and Indian soldiers end up on both sides of the vast conflict. The narrative...
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
The Spanish architects Rafael Guastavino Sr. and his son, Rafael Guastavino Jr., designed more than one thousand iconic spaces across New York City and the United States, such as the New York City Hall Subway Station (still a tourist destination though no longer active), the Manhattan Federal Reserve Bank, the Nebraska State Capitol, the Great Hall of Ellis Island, the Oyster bar at Grand Central Terminal in New York, the Elephant House at the Bronx...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
115 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A middle-grade nonfiction book about one of America's most historically resonant images, the circumstances surrounding its creation, and the larger story it tells about Abraham Lincoln's life"--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) illustrations (chiefly color) 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A picture book autobiography by Yukie Kimura about her childhood in Japan during World War II, co-written by her son and bestselling nonfiction author Steve Sheinkin"--.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
217 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A graphic novel biography of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the father of neuroscience"--
"A graphic novel retelling of the inspiring true story of polymath Santiago Ramón y Cajal, visionary pioneer of modern neuroscience, and his early dreams of becoming an artist. As a young boy, all Santiago wanted to do was be an artist. But his father wanted him to become a doctor, insisting that pursuing art was not a true profession. Although Santiago was forbidden...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Lerners
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
48 pages (large print) : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reconstructs a possible mission of the fourteen-year-old spy who carried messages to George Washington's camp in the buttons of his coat during the Revolutionary War.
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