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English
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Pocahontas was only eleven years old when, on her kneesm she begged her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare the life of the captured Englishman John Smith. According to trival custom, this act made her "brother", a kinship she never forgot. But relations between the Indians and the white settlers at the Jamestown colony were ever-changing. For ten more years, Pocahontas would be caught up in the tensions separating the two cultures. And before there...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence. Born mixed race and with very fair skin and straight hair, White was able to "pass" for white. He leveraged this ambiguity as a reporter, bringing to light the darkest crimes in America and helping to plant the...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
James Tiptree, Jr., burst onto the science fiction scene in the late 1960s with a string of hard-edged, provocative stories. He was hailed as a brilliant writer with a deep sympathy for his female characters. He carried on intimate correspondences with other writers, none of whom knew his true identity. He was so reclusive that he was widely believed to be a top-secret government agent. Then the cover was blown--on a sixty-one-year-old woman named...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Her father is a German movie producer who lives in Italy. Her mother is a beautiful, artistically talented woman who resides in New York. As their child, Liliane's life is divided between those two very different worlds-worlds that inspire her to find herself in both the present and in her ancestors' pasts. A shy and observant only child with a vivid imagination, Liliane finds herself exploring her family's vibrant history-which includes such renowned...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Serial killers rarely travel internationally. So in the early 1990s, when Los Angeles detectives began to find bodies of women strangled with their own bras, it didn't occur to them at first to make a connection with the bodies being uncovered in the woods outside of Vienna, Austria. The LAPD waited for the killer to strike again. Meanwhile, in Austria, the police followed what few clues they had. The case intrigued many reporters, but few as keenly...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From the world's leading authority on Bob Dylan comes the definitive biography that promises to transform our understanding of the man and musician - thanks to early access to Dylan's never-before-studied archives.
Using material from Dylan's personal archive, Heylin tells the story of the singer's meteoric rise to fame. Readers will follow Dylan's arrival in early 1961 in New York, where he is embraced by the folk scene; his elevation to spokesman...
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
[2012].
Language
English
Description
Describes the subversive tactics of Richmond socialite Elizabeth Van Lew to help the Union army during the Civil War, including her work with freed slaves, her connections to Jefferson Davis, and her missions for Ulysses S. Grant.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
presents the energetic life of Sarah Edmonds, a Nova Scotia woman and Civil War soldier who served in the Second Michigan Volunteer Infantry under the name Franklin Thompson. Fleeing an abusive father and an unwanted marriage, 17-year old Sarah disguised herself as a man and made a living as a traveling book salesman.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002, 2001
Language
English
Description
In this book, Simon Louvish traces the early lives of Stanley Jefferson and Norvell Hardy and the surrounding minstrel and variety theater, which influenced all of their later work. Louvish examines the rarely seen solo films of both our heroes, prior to their serendipitous pairing in 1927, in the long-lost short Duck Soup. The inspired casting teamed them until their last days. Both often married, they found balancing their personal and professional...
Author
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba.