Puleo, Stephen

Summary: "The remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and began America's tradition of providing humanitarian aid around the world More than 5,000 ships left Ireland during the great potato famine in the late 1840s, transporting the starving and the destitute away from their stricken homeland. The first vessel to sail in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020

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Wilkes, Stephany

Summary: "In Raw Material, Stephany Wilkes tells not only her own story, but also that of American wool. What begins as a knitter's search for local yarn becomes a dirty, unlikely, and irresistible side job. Wilkes become a certified sheep shearer and wool classer, working at the very first step in the textile supply chain, ultimately leaving her high-tech job for a new way of life considered long dead...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oregon State University Press 2018

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Talty, Stephan.

Summary: Describes the life of Juan Pujol, a poultry farmer who opposed the Nazis and concocted a series of staggering lies that lead to his becoming one of Germany's most valued spies, while actually acting as a double-agent for the Allies.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012

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Talty, Stephan

Summary: "The untold story of a Latvian Nazi's gruesome crimes and an Israeli spy's epic journey to bring him to justice-a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York 2020

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Talty, Stephan

Summary: The first comprehensive account of David Koresh's life, his road to Waco, and the rise of government mistrust in America, from a master of narrative nonfiction. No other event in the last fifty years is shrouded in myth like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Today, we remember this moment for the 76 people, including 20 children, who died in the fire; for its inspiration of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023

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Talty, Stephan.

Summary: Chronicles the real-life adventures of Welsh pirate Henry Morgan and his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English, from his attacks on Spanish merchant ships to his final assault on Panama that ended Spanish domination of the New World.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2007

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Culmo, Kaitlin

Summary: "There's history as it's told, and then there's history as it actually happened. You may think you know the stories behind the world's most well-known, groundbreaking achievements, but To Her Credit is here to make you reevaluate our collective story as it has been written. This book celebrates the stories of women, from ancient times until the 1990s, whose contributions have been overwritten...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2023

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Sileo, Tom.

Summary: "Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, President Obama stood in Arlington National Cemetery to deliver his Memorial Day address. He extolled the heroism and sacrifice of the two men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Huler, Scott.

Contents: Introduction September 6, 1996: Hurricane Fran and before -- Beaufort of the Admiralty -- In search of the wind -- The Beaufort scale, and who wrote it, in a general way -- Reverse engineering the wind -- "Nature rightly questioned, never lies": the Beaufort scale, nineteenth-century science, and the last eighteenth-century man -- Getting the word out: on the Society for the Diffusion of Useful...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2004

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Lohman, Eric

Summary: When their daughter Rosie was born, Eric and Stephani Lohman found themselves thrust into a situation they were not prepared for. Born intersex--a term that describes people who are born with a variety of physical characteristics that do not fit neatly into traditional conceptions about male and female bodies--Rosie's parents were pressured to consent to normalizing surgery on Rosie, without...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2018

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Steen, Michael.

Summary: Studies the social, cultural, and political spheres that affected the lives and works of approximately 50 composers.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2004

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Rosas, Julio

Summary: "In the summer of 2020, America was under siege by radical ANTIFA actors across the country. But if you were only reading mainstream headlines, you probably have no idea just how bad it really was. As homes and businesses were being burned to the ground and livelihoods were being destroyed, corporate media engaged in a full-scale attempt to gaslight the American people, pushing Orwellian...

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Publisher / Publication Date: DW Books 2022

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Gregory, Brad S. (Brad Stephan)

Summary: On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation comes this compelling, illuminating, and expansive religious history that examines the complicated and unintended legacies of Martin Luther and the epochal movement that continues to shape the world today. For five centuries, Martin Luther has been lionized as an outspoken and fearless icon of change who ended the Middle Ages and heralded the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2017

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Pyle, Ernie

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986

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Walker, Stephen

Summary: A sixtieth-anniversary tribute to Russia's history-making first space mission documents the story of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the program's repurposing of a nuclear ballistic missile, and the Cold War challenges that shrouded the mission in secrecy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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Currie, Stephen

Summary: "Joe Biden was elected president in 2020. His supporters saw their candidate's ultimate victory as a triumph for their vision of America. Few political leaders in American history have had as long a career in politics and government as Biden"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2022

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Greenblatt, Stephen

Summary: A young man from the provinces a man without wealth, connections, or university educatiońmoves to London. In a remarkably short time he becomes the greatest playwright not just of his age but of all time. His works appeal to urban sophisticates and first-time theatergoers; he turns politics into poetry; he recklessly mingles vulgar clowning and philosophical subtlety. How is such an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005

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Kendrick, Stephen

Summary: "A history of the 1960 US presidential election with a focus on the role played by the imprisonment of Martin Luther King Jr. in the wake of an Atlanta sit-in"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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Kinzer, Stephen.

Contents: Good evening, Mr. Roosevelt -- Curse this fate -- The last drop of the nation's blood -- A wave of oil -- His master's orders -- Unseen enemies everywhere -- You do not know how evil they are -- An immensely shrewd old man -- Block headed British -- Pull up your socks and get going -- I knew it! : they love me! -- Purring like a giant cat.

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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley & Sons 2003

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Maher, Stephen

Summary: "An original journalistic work covering Justin Trudeau's years as prime minister to date, with behind-the-scenes insights from inside sources, showing what kind of man and PM he is, and how his government operates."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2024

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Mitchell, Stephen

Summary: Chiefly commentary on biblical excerpts.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1991

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