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John Harris
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of how, in Savannah, Georgia, in 1857 James Lord Pierpont sat down to write a song for his congregation's Thanksgiving program and, homesick for the cold New England weather he remembered, came up with an enduring classic.
Author
Publisher
J. Paul Getty Museum
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
A supposed school notebook features pictures and descriptions of a variety of monsters, including the Teumessian Fox (who was turned to stone by Zeus), Echidna (mother of many, many monsters), Briaereus (who had a hundred heads), and Typhon (who tossed mountains around with ease).
Author
Publisher
J. Paul Getty Museum
Pub. Date
©2005.
Language
English
Description
Herakles was one of the greatest of all Greek heroes, and his exploits have been celebrated in paintings, songs, poetry, and sculpture for thousands of years. Now it's time for him to have his own children's book, one exclusively devoted to his labors and adventures. Strong Stuff tells the amazing stories of the Stymphalian Birds (defeated by crashing cymbals), creepy King Geryon (with three heads AND three bodies), the Augean Stables (don't ask),...
5) The swarm
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army, but China has been devastated by the Formics' initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed by every major slave trading nation in the early nineteenth century, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the African coast. The key instigators were slave traders who moved to New York City after...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
A look at the 2008 presidential election examines the roles of the Clinton and Bush families in American politics, reveals the strategies that Karl Rove has used to achieve successful election results, and explores how presidential campaigns are won and lost.
10) Invisible scars
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A victim of child sexual abuse, Johnna gains the perspective of others who were similarly abused and is forced to face her past and learn to live in the present.