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An account of a hidden library organized in 2013 in the war-torn town of Daraya, which was besieged early in…
the Syrian Civil War. The author recounts how the books inside were salvaged and scavenged. 2019
A history of the European country of Belarus, beginning with prehistory and continuing on through the early twenty-first century. Discusses…
literature, religion, language, various military conflicts, and more. Particularly focuses on relations with Russia throughout history.
A history of the famed African American basketball team the Harlem Globetrotters. Soon after their start in Depression-era Chicago, they…
incorporated comedy in their play while still competing against the best teams in the world. Includes profiles of some of their famous players. Some strong language. 2005
Science historian presents a profile of the work of women scientists during World War I and the ways their work…
impacted the suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. Topics examined include the traditional roles of women, routes to power through science, wartime work, post-war readjustment, and more. 2018
Combination of memoir regarding her personal life and faith journey and an exam of the role of faith in middle…
America in the wake of the 2016 election. Topics discussed include her desire for a stable faith community, decreasing church attendance, her divorce, and profiles of faith communities. 2019
The journalist author, whose career has focused on events in the Middle East, provides a history of Arab-Zionist conflict throughout…
the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Draws on sources that include declassified documents, oral histories, and more. 2017
Examination of the ways aboriginal Australians developed the land to support their societies long before colonization of the continent by…
European explorers. Topics include agriculture, aquaculture, population and housing, storage and preservation, fire, cultural norms, non-Aboriginal agriculture techniques, and understanding history to improve the future. 2018
Introduces seven of the nation's most important documents. Provides the historical context, and breaks down the significant details of each…
document. Includes the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and others. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2018
Presents the history of dogs, both famous and infamous, from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Discusses the long relationship…
between humans and canines, and how dogs are an integral part of our daily lives. For grades 4-7. 2018
Journalist shares her trip to Iraq to meet with Yazidi women who escaped captivity by Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) and the beekeeper…
who assisted them with his network of helpers. Discusses the impact of traumas experienced. Translated from the original 2018 Arabic edition. Violence. 2018
Historian examines the role of mothers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in America. Topics covered include maternal…
bodies in medical literature, childbearing narratives, breastfeeding and sentimentality, disembodiment of mothers in feminine print culture, and the role of sentimentality and embodiment in antislavery print culture. 2018
Office-supply enthusiast chronicles the history and development of such mundane tools as pins and clips, pens, paper, pencils, erasers, novelty…
stationery, school-specific supplies, highlighters, glue, business cards, staplers, and more. 2014
An account of the evolution of the country of Mozambique, beginning with its early modern origins in the Indian Ocean…
trading system and Portuguese maritime empire. Discusses, among other things, the fifteen years of civil war that followed independence and subsequent efforts for peace. 2017
A narrative history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. Recounts the origins and consolidation of Lebanon's…
Christian, Muslim, and Islamic-derived sects. Also discusses the emergence of modern Lebanon in the 1860s, the collapse of the Ottoman empire in 1920, and more. 2012
Recounting of the life of a man who survived the Auschwitz and Buchenwald Nazi concentration camps as a young boy.…
Describes his work to keep his family alive while they lived in a Polish ghetto, his time in the camps, and his move to America after liberation. 2014
An account of John F. Kennedy's true survival story during World War II. As a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the…
Navy, he fought to save his PT 109 crew after a deadly collision with an enemy ship in the Pacific. For grades 4-7. 2018
Accounting of a man's incarceration for a year in Kenya for political activism through theater. Discusses Kenyan history leading to…
the ruling regime, his living conditions, his fellow prisoners, and the work he did in order to maintain his sanity--including writing a novel on toilet paper in his native language. 2018
Two volumes covering the sweep of the Spanish conquest using primary sources, particularly the accounts provided by the conquistadors themselves.…
Covers the conquests of Christopher Columbus, Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, and Hernando de Soto. 2015
Over a hundred writers highlight the legacy of the great president. The collection starts with William Cullen Bryant's "Introduction of…
Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union" in 1860 and ends with Barack Obama's remarks, as a junior senator, at the opening of Abraham Lincoln's Presidential Library and Museum in 2005. 2009