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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Nathan Raab, America's preeminent rare documents dealer, describes his years as the Sherlock Holmes of historical artifacts, questing after precious finds and determining their authenticity, and he shows us what the past can tell us about the present. A box uncovered in a Maine attic with twenty letters written by Alexander Hamilton; a handheld address to Congress by President George Washington; a long-lost Gold Medal that belonged to an American...
2423) Sometimes in April
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Based on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, where over the course of 100 days an estimated 800,000 people were killed in a terrifying purge by Hutu nationalists against their Tutsi countrymen.
2425) Mercy Street
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.
2426) Gods and generals
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Gods and Generals follows the rise and fall of legendary war hero "Stonewall Jackson". The prequel to the 1993 hit Gettysburg.
2427) John Carter
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
A war-weary former military captain is inexplicably transported to Mars and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
2429) John Carter
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
John Carter, a war-weary former military captain, is inexplicably transported to Mars and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Formats
Description
Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a mystery with roots dating back to the Civil War in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky. V .I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her intelligence, her humor, her unflinching courage, and her love of good coffee. But even the strongest people sometimes need a break to recharge, so her friends send her to Kansas for a weekend of college basketball where...
2431) Impuratus
Pub. Date
2023
Description
A police detective Clayton Douglas is summoned to a remote hospital to witness a mysterious Civil War veteran's outrageous death-bed confession that forces him to accept the supernatural.
2432) Beasts of no nation
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties, a child soldier, in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala and starring Idris Elba.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Quicksilver returns! But is he friend or foe!? Complicating matters even more, the divisiveness of civil war has spread to X-Factor: half of them want to cooperate with the government; the other half want to take a stand against it. Plus, What happens when Cable and Deadpool find themselves on opposite sides of the fence, and both refuse to budge? What else: they fight!
Author
Series
Drifting dragons volume 11
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Vannie's homeland, Arena, is beseiged by a fog-spewing dragon which is causing conditions that have paused its civil war, but both sides have decided to slay the dragon in order to continue fighting each other. Vannie has joined the old guard in hopes that the dragon's death will cure her comatose friend, and Mika and the others have followed her.
2435) Dawnlands (CD)
Author
Series
Fairmile volume 3
Pub. Date
2022
Description
It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are life-changing: the family could return to their beloved Tidelands,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
In the summer of 1859, British and American troops stood at the brink of war over a small island in the Pacific Northwest, each claiming sovereignty over the region in a military standoff that has become known as the "Pig War" of San Juan Island. In the midst of the dispute sat a Hudson's Bay Company farm, where seventeen year-old Flora Ross, the Métis daughter (Anishinaabe/Scottish) of a prominent company family, nursed a farmworker's dying wife....
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Ten one-hour documentaries directed by 10 award-winning independent filmmakers-highlighting 10 individual days that each triggered change in America. Through compelling storytelling and creative visuals, they provide a portrati of a nation attempting to address some of the tensions and contradictions at the heart of the American democratic experience.
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