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Summary: Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a controversial extradition law, grew into a pro-democracy movement that engulfed the city for months. Protesters fought street battles with police, and the unrest brought the People's Liberation Army to the very doorstep of Hong Kong. Driven primarily by students and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribe Publications 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.4 DAPBeevor, Antony
Summary: Chronicles the horror of Berlin's fall to the Soviets in 1945, recalling the starvation, exposure, artillery fire, rape, and mass destruction that marked the Red Army's final push on Germany's capital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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Summary: Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, Beevor assembles the whole picture of the Second World War in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert, to the Burmese jungle, SS Einsatzgruppen in the borderlands, Gulag prisoners drafted into punishment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BEEKamm, Antony.
Contents: 1. The Origins of Rome 2. The Republic 3. Twelve Caesars 4. Religions and Mythology 5. Society and Daily Life 6. Art, Architecture, and Building 7. Latin Literature 8. The Roman Army 9. The Empire: Stability, Disintegration, Recovery, Fall Appendices Index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 937 KAMSpawforth, Antony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.3663 SPEBeevor, Antony
Summary: "On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions. He gazed up in envy at this massive demonstration...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BEEBeevor, Antony
Summary: From critically acclaimed world historian, Antony Beevor, this is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the whole invasion from June 6, 1944, right up to the liberation of Paris on August 25. It is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian, and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the fighting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: On August 23, 1942, Hitler's 16th Panzer Division halted on the banks of the Volga. To their right, the city of Stalingrad blazed from the first of General von Richthofen's air raids, which ultimately killed 40,000 civilians. Many German soldiers thought the war against Russia was won. But in Stalin's namesake city on the Volga, Hitler had chosen the wrong target. The battle of Stalingrad would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.07 BRISingleton, Robert Randolph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Winchester Press 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.69 SINBeevor, Antony
Summary: "On December, 16, 1944, Hitler launched his last gamble in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes. He believed he could split the Allies by driving all the way to Antwerp, then force the Canadians and the British out of the war. Although his generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to believe that their homes and families could be saved from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.081 BEEHaynes, Antony J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.97 HAYTreuer, Anton
Summary: A "book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike. Ranging from 'Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?' to 'Why is it called a traditional Indian fry bread taco?' to 'What's it like for Natives who don't look Native?' to 'Why are Indians so often imagined rather than understood?' and beyond, [this book] does exactly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 970.004 TREBailey, Anthony
Summary: The story of Dutch master painter Jan Vermeer is told against the backdrop of the "golden age" of Dutch culture in the seventeenth century and offers a portrait of Vermeer's life, his artistic career, and his influence on the history of Western art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VERMEER, JOHANNES BAIDavenport, Anthony
Summary: "The most comprehensive insider's look at what every consumer needs to know about their credit score--and most importantly, how to fix it. If you, like so many millions of Americans, are terrified by the daily headlines regarding Equifax and identity theft, and how all of this can directly affect your basic credit score, then this book should be considered as mandatory reading. Like it or not,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.7 DAVDeStefano, Anthony
Summary: "Anthony DeStefano, the bestselling author of A Travel Guide to Heaven, takes us on an exploration of hell, the devil, demons, and evil itself. ... Rooted in solid, orthodox Christian scholarship, this one-of-a-kind book investigates everything there is to know about one of the most fascinating, yet often misunderstood, subjects of all time." -- from publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books 2020
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Summary: "The Roman emperor Nero has long been the very image of a bad ruler--cruel, vain, and incompetent. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. He supposedly set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it burned. Afterward he cleared the charred ruins of the city center and, in their place, built a vast palace. Historians of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NERO EVEEveritt, Anthony.
Summary: He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations for all of Western history to follow. Yet despite Augustus's accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUGUSTUS EveHecht, Anthony
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 HECLewis, Anthony
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1989
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Summary: The Nazi Regime was essentially a religious cult relying on the hypnotic personality of Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen successor. This peculiar leadership dynamic resulted in millions of deaths and some of the worst excesses of World War II. The Devil's Disciples is the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1993
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Summary: Tony Robbins teams up with financial advisor Peter Mallouk to reveal how to become unshakeable -- someone who can not only maintain true peace of mind in a world of immense uncertainty, economic volatility, and unprecedented change, but who can profit from the fear that immobilizes so many. They guide readers on the path to financial freedom, discussing how to not only weather but gain from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017