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Summary: Whether you want to explore the treasures of El Prado, dance the flamenco, take a tapas tour, or experience the incredible Alhambra, the local Fodor's travel experts in Madrid, Seville and Granada are here to help! Fodor's Madrid with Seville and Granada guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.64 MADMenocal, Maria Rosa.
Summary: Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, Menocal brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as a young prince in exile--the last heir to an Islamic dynasty--founds a new kingdom on the Iberian peninsula: al-Andalus. Combining the best of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.02 MENKuper, Simon
Summary: "With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper tells the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful club in the world-and how that era is now ending"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.334 KUPHochschild, Adam
Summary: For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa's photographs. But Adam...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.081 HOCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 946.081 HOCWhiteman, Medina Tenour
Summary: "Medina Tenour Whiteman stands at the margins of whiteness and Islam. An Anglo-American born to Sufi converts, she feels perennially out of place--not fully at home in Western or Muslim cultures. In this searingly honest memoir, Whiteman contemplates what it means to be an invisible Muslim, examining the pernicious effects of white Muslim privilege and exploring what Muslim identity can mean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hurst and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITEMAN, MEDINA TENOUR WHIHutchinson, Robert
Contents: The enemy within -- Rumours of war -- Ramparts of earth and manure -- The great and most fortunate Navy -- First sighting -- Action this day -- Firestorm -- Fleeing for home -- Shipwrecked upon an alien shore -- 'God be praised for all his works' -- The english armada -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: Order of battle of English fleet -- Appendix II: Order of battle of Spanish Fleet -- Chronology --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.05 HUTPreston, Paul
Summary: Describes the atrocities committed during the reign of General Francisco Franco, who executed tens of thousands of "non-persons" and abused women and children under a belief system comprised of eugenics, terror, domination, and mind control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.08 PREPaterniti, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 637.3092 PATVaill, Amanda.
Summary: "A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe--a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century"--six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.081 VAIAronson, Marc
Summary: Recounts the achievements of photojournalism pioneers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro as they captured the tragedies of the Spanish Civil War and documented the fight against Facism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 770 AROWilson-Lee, Edward
Summary: "The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books tells the story of the first and greatest visionary of the print age, a man who saw how the explosive expansion of knowledge and information generated by the advent of the printing press would entirely change the landscape of thought and society. He also happened to be Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, while his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COLON, FERNANDO, WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B COLON WILHughes, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.72 HUGMooney, Carla
Summary: Provides twenty-two step-by-step projects to help readers learn about the explorers that discovered America and their voyages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2011
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Summary: Recounts the author's visit to the Castilian village of Guzmán as part of a decade-long effort to taste the world's finest cheese, an encounter that involved him in long-held regional secrets and the story of a heartbroken genius cheesemaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 637.3092 PATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food PaternitiSummary: "Lonely Planet's Andalucia is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Stroll the ancient streets of Seville, share delicious tapas in Malaga and relax on the picturesque beaches of Costa del Sol; all with your trusted travel companion"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.68 ANDALUCIA LONHemingway, Valerie
Summary: Irish reporter Valerie Hemingway chronicles the years she spent as a personal secretary and confidante to Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Mary, and her eventual marriage to Hemingway's estranged son, Gregory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.52 HEMNetanyahu, B
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 272.2 NETSmyth, Denis
Summary: In the pre-dawn darkness of April 30, 1943, the body of a Royal Marine Major washed ashore on the south-western coast of Spain, part of an incredible plot to mislead the German High Command about the Allies' impending Mediterranean invasion. What made this ruse unique--and macabre--was that the "Major" was actually a deceased Welsh laborer, who drifted lifelessly ashore carrying false documents...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SMYWaxman, Laura Hamilton
Summary: Chronicles the life and career of Juan Ponce de Léon, tracing his travels in the Carribbean and his discoveries of Florida and Puerto Rico.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2018
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 910.92 WAXGray, Gary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 798 GRAKallen, Stuart A.
Summary: Uses primary source documents to follow Francisco Vázquez de Coronado on his search for the Seven Cities of Cibola.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2018
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 910.92 KALThomas, Hugh
Summary: A history of Spain's first thirty years in the Americas traces Columbus's pioneering voyage through Magellan's first circumnavigation of the earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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Summary: Drawing on new scholarship, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Woman Behind the New Deal presents a biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus' journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition and became one of the most influential female rulers in history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ISABELLA I, QUEEN DOWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ISABELLA DOWParker, Geoffrey
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1978