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81) Angelopolis
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Danielle Trussoni's bestselling first novel, Angelology, wove biblical lore, the Orpheus myth, and Milton's Rebel Angels into a present-day world tinged with the divine supernatural. The novel plunged two endearing loners--art historian V. A. Verlaine and Evangeline, a beautiful young nun--into an ancient battle between a secret society and mankind's most insidious enemies: angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim. Now a decade has passed since...
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Lee Emery is an empty nester, contentedly married to a man she has known forever and hunkering down in the house where she grew up. She believes she is happy occupying such a familiar emotional and physical space. But questions of the path not taken start to haunt her after she publishes a memoir of her deliciously eccentric grandmother with whom she traipsed through Europe at eighteen. It was then that Lee fell in love for the first time. Twenty-five...
Author
Series
Pink Carnation novels volume 1
Description
"Deciding that true romantic heroes are a thing of the past, Eloise Kelly, an intelligent American who always manages to wear her Jimmy Choo suede boots on the day it rains, leaves Harvard's Widener Library bound for England to finish her dissertation on the dashing pair of spies the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. What she discovers is something the finest historians have missed: a secret history that begins with a letter dated 1803. Eloise...
85) The deep
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Description
"Yetu holds the memories for her people--water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners--who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one--the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her....
Author
Publisher
August House Publishers
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Description
The insightful and heartwarming memoir of one of twentieth-century America's most celebrated frontier writers Dee Brown's fascinating memoir describes a writer's evolution-and a time when catching rides on trains or seeing the landing of a Curtiss Jenny airplane were simple and profound pleasures. Brown traces his upbringing in Arkansas in the early 1900s, and the oil boom that hit his tiny town. He writes of how he fell under the spell of books and...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these questions. These questions took on a new urgency for Pagels when dealing with unimaginable loss-the death of her young son, followed a year later...
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Formats
Description
When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend; no one could come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian Oliver Doucet. When an unexpected letter arrives from Sonia ten years after the incident that ended their friendship, Cameron doesn't reply, despite Oliver's urging. But then he passes away, and Cameron discovers that he has left her with...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Description
Chronicles the life of the Jewish general-turned-Roman historian while appraising the roles of Jewish immigrants in the Diaspora centuries, covering such topics as Josephus's role as a religious and intellectual prototype and his relationship with the Roman emperor Vespasian.
90) Arizona dreams
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st trade pbk. ed.
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"--P. 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2021], c2019
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....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Arriving simultaneously in a tiny village in Cumbria, England, Samantha Flood and Miguel Madero pursue investigations of the links between the community and their families, endeavors that reshape their senses of identity.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Description
Sisters Natalie and Alice Kessler were close until adolescence wrenched them apart. Natalie is headstrong, manipulative and beautiful. Alice is a dreamer who loves books and birds. During their family's summer holiday at the lake, Alice falls under the thrall of a struggling young painter, Thomas Bayber, in whom she finds a kindred spirit. Natalie, however, remains strangely unmoved, sitting for a family portrait with surprising indifference. But...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition
Description
"A series of brilliant historical portraits combine to create a self-portrait of one of our greatest historians. With characteristic vitality and brilliance, Bernard Bailyn revisits the major phases of his long, pathbreaking career and offers readers new insights into history and his distinctive approach to understanding it. From his early work on the New England merchants through his groundbreaking study of the American Revolution and on into his...
Author
Description
"With the help of many friends and their faithful dog, Sarah, Charlie and Mer must solve the mystery of the lost Reynolds gang treasure. Forest City, Colorado, 1886: At a time in history when Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday arrive in Colorado from Tombstone, the descendants of the Reynolds gang make a deadly appearance to collect the stolen loot buried by their dastardly father and uncle, Jim and John Reynolds. Charlie and Mer travel in time from 1988...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Description
"Few writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His biography of Adolf Hitler has reached millions of readers around the world. Born in 1926, Fest experienced firsthand the rise of the Nazis, the Second World War, and a catastrophically defeated Germany, thus becoming a vital witness to these difficult years. In this memoir of his childhood and youth, Fest...
Publisher
MHz Choice on DVD
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A hot-headed and uncultured cop, Captain Antoine Verlay gets assigned against his will to the Central Office for the Fight against Trafficking in Cultural Goods and teams up with wildly imaginative art historian Florence Chaddagne to solve art-related murder cases. Good thing they have Florence's art historian father in the wings for consultation. Through their intriguing investigations they delve into the history of great artists and follow in the...
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