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Magic tree house. Merlin mission volume 38
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, offers an eyewitness account of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine"--
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war's decisive moments--from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hern�an Cort�es entered the city of Tenochtitlan - today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Cort�es was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators:...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political acumen of Abraham Lincoln via sixteen encounters before and during his presidency, bringing to light not only the strategy of a great politician who inherited a country divided, but lessons for our own disorderly present. In 1855, as the United States found itself at odds over the issue of slavery, then lawyer Abraham Lincoln composed a note on the...
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Medieval and Renaissance blades are a profound and beautiful object handcrafted by master artisans of old with a singular use in mind. The truth of the sword has been shrouded in antiquity, and the Renaissance martial arts that brought it to being are long forgotten.
28) Dear Sirs
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After finding an archive of photos, letters, and documents detailing his grandfather’s untold journey as a Prisoner of War in World War II, filmmaker Mark Pedri bikes across Europe to tell his grandfather’s story and better understand the man who raised him. GI Film Festival Winner, Best Feature Documentary.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early...
31) Radio Bikini
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
An internationally acclaimed, award-winning (and Oscar nominated) documentary film about the greatest operation to test nuclear weapons ever conducted by the United States. Staged at a remote Pacific atoll called Bikini in the summer of 1946, the tests (code-named Operation Crossroads) were also one of the first great ‘media events’ of the modern age. Using rare and mostly never-before-seen archival footage, the film unfolds through the eyes of...
32) Atomic Cover-Up
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Explores the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the unique perspective of the camera crews who risked their lives filming in the irradiated aftermath. Initially started by a Japanese newsreel crew, and then continued under the supervision of the US Army, this documentary reveals how their footage was seized, classified top secret, and then buried by American officials for decades in order to hide the full human cost of the bombings as a...
33) Wounded Land
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
During the Fall of 2021, Ukraine was slowly emerging from a global pandemic. Around this time, a film crew began shooting a documentary focused on the country’s wine-making regions. Then, in 2022, things took a sharp turn when Russia escalated a war against Ukraine. This film tells the stories of hard-working people who, against all odds, remain engaged in continuing in business.
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English
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"Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time. It's Willie Mays's catch, Babe Ruth's called shot, and Kirk Gibson's limping home run; the slickest steals; the biggest bombs; and the most triumphant no-hitters. But these are also moments raw with the humanity of the game, the unheralded heroes, the mesmerizing mistakes drenched in pine tar, and every story, from the immortal to the obscure, is...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of...
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