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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning historians, diplomats, music legends and sports giants explore the grand American experiment in democracy, culture, innovation and ideas, revealing the setbacks, suffering, invention, ingenuity, and social movements that continue to shape our vision of what America is and what it can be.
3) Genesis
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Anaximander, a student historian applying for entrance to the Academy, the institution that governs the Republic, a closed and isolated island society established late in the twenty-first century as a refuge from worldwide plague, prepares a thesis on Adam Forde, a rebel who on one occasion refused to shoot a young woman approaching the island in a boat, and unwittingly reveals her own tendencies for unconventional thought.
Author
Language
English
Description
With Stephen E. Ambrose's untimely death in October of 2002, America lost its most popular historian. He breathed fresh life into topics that remained obscure to the average person, and injected passion into the events from which history textbooks so often drained the drama. Ambrose's final book is a stirring collection of reflections that covers such wide-ranging subjects as the Battle of New Orleans, the transcontinental railroad, Crazy Horse and...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Carter G. Woodson was born ten years after the end of the Civil War, to parents who had both been enslaved. Their stories were not the ones written about in history books, but Carter learned them and kept them in his heart. Carter's father could not read or write, but he believed in being an informed citizen. So Carter read the newspaper to him every day, and from this practice, he learned about the world and how to find out what he didn't know. Many...
10) The music lesson
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Art historian Patricia Dolan, left alone with a stolen Vermeer in a remote Irish cottage by the sea, comes to regard the woman in the priceless painting as both a judge and confidant who helps Patricia sort out the complexities of her life.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
College dean and prominent historian Jean Sheridan heads to her hometown of Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where she is slated to be honored at her twenty-year class reunion, not realizing she is the target of a former classmate who has concocted a plan to get even with all the people who tortured him as a youth.
15) Picasso's lovers
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A lushly drawn drama of Pablo Picasso's muses, the secret love affairs that inspired some of his greatest works, and the enduring influence of love and art Alana Olson always felt connected to Pablo Picasso. Sure, as a recently graduated art historian and aspiring writer in 1950s New York, Alana was bound to encounter the most renowned artist of the era, but it was her late Italian mother's particular fascination with the man that inspired Alana's...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A comedic novel about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French husband, returning to her native San Francisco to pick up the life she left behind, and the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren"--
17) Still life
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Tin Man comes a captivating, lively new novel of people brought together across four decades of love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster"--
20) Arizona dreams
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a former student turns up in David Mapstone's office, she seems to have the perfect case for this history-professor-turned-deputy: a letter left by her deceased father, confessing to a forty-year-old murder and providing directions to the body. But things are never what they seem in Phoenix, a fast-buck city of newcomers seeking fresh starts from sometimes dark pasts.
Just ask David's wife, Deputy Lindsey Faith Mapstone. One morning the start...
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