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149264) 1421
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China "to the ends of the earth". When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that the Chinese had reached America seventy years before Columbus...
149265) A bride's story: 1
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
As she and her husband adjust to their arranged marriage, Amir strives to find her role as she settles into a new life and a new home in a society quick to define that role for her.
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
A vivid portrait of life in England a thousand years ago. In the spirit of modern investigative journalism, the authors interview top historians and archaeologists, and they examine the human and social ingredients that were to make for achievement and success in the next thousand years.
149267) The sixth gun: Volume six
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Language
English
Description
This oversized deluxe collection includes an intro from titan of Fantasy Michael Moorcock, never before seen artwork, design sketches, cover galleries, and in-depth interviews with the creators and artists.
Author
Pub. Date
1872-1992.
Language
English
Description
The Washington Engine Company Records document the professional, financial and social activities of one of the oldest fire companies still in existence in Morristown, New Jersey. Types of material found among the records include minutes, member roll-call books, fire registers, correspondence and early membership applications. Financial records and a few ephemeral items round out a collection that truly highlights the unique personality of this Market...
149275) To the polls
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"While volunteering on Election Day, Mr. Rustin shows his students the power of the vote. Using his ability to step back in time, he takes the class down the path to fair voting rights for everyone"--Back cover.
149278) Carmen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
As a hot-blooded young corporal in the Spanish cavalry stationed near Seville, Don Jose is ordered to arrest Carmen, a young, flirtatious Gypsy woman, for assaulting a co-worker. Greatly charmed by her, Jose allows her to escape. He deserts the army, kills two men on Carmen's account, and takes up a life as a robber and smuggler. He is insanely jealous of Carmen, who is unfaithful to him, and when she refuses to change on his behalf, he kills her...
149279) Madama Butterfly
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Madama Butterfly concerns the disastrous results of a young American naval officer's marriage to a pretty geisha.
149280) The men who created gundam
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 1978 animation director Yoshiyuki Tomino set forth to change the Japanese animation industry. For decades prior, Japanese science fiction had churned out numerous tales of semi-autonomous robots that would often come to the aide of humanity, but as someone who worked on a number of those works, Tomino came to the realization that he wanted to see a more realistic robot narrative. His vision was one where the robot while just slightly more human...
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