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On the verge of giving up-anchored to dreams that never came true and to people who have long since disappeared from their lives-Van Booy's characters walk the streets of these stark and beautiful stories until chance meetings with strangers force them to face responsibility for lives they thought had continued on without them.
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Desperate to free Nikolas, Juniper mistakenly trusts Julien, exposing herself to the harsh reality of who her grandfather truly is. As she realises her error, she faces the challenge of escaping Julien's madness, freeing Nikolas, and protecting him from those seeking his demise.With the staff still in Taro's hands, Juniper must fight to gain possession of it before Taro traps more of her people in stone. However, Julien makes it plainly obvious that...
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On the eve of the Civil War, New Orleans was far more cosmopolitan than Southern, with its sizable population of immigrants, Northern-born businessmen, and white and Black Creoles. However, by 1880 New Orleans rivaled Richmond as a bastion of the Lost Cause. After Appomattox, a significant number of Confederate veterans moved into the city giving elites the backing to form a Confederate civic culture.
While it's fair to say that the three Confederate...
7) The Missing Buddhas: The Mystery of the Chinese Buddhist Statues That Stunned the Western Art World
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In the early 1900s, as chaos reigned in China, a group of life-size glazed terracotta Buddhist monks started appearing on the antiques market and caused a sensation in the West, being both exquisite and completely unlike anything else ever seen in Chinese art. Museums and collectors around the world competed for them, but who made them and when? And where had they been hidden before they suddenly emerged into the light? The Missing "Buddhas" tells...
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Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery?
In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores some of the questions about the Greeks and Romans that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has answered in the classroom and online. Unlike most books on the classical world, the focus is not on famous figures...
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"As a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn't learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat history one more time, we're going to fail! Maybe it's time for a new textbook. Alexandra Petri's US History contains a lost (invented!) history of America. (A history for people disappointed that the only president whose weird sex letters we have is Warren...
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In these deeply researched essays, a Paris Review contributor blends science, history, and memoir to explore human obsession with gorgeous things, exposing the fraught histories of makeup, silk, jewels, perfume, and other objects, helping readers to ethically partake in the beauty of the world around them.
Kelleher has spent much of her life chasing beauty. She can to see that whenever you find something unbearably beautiful, if you look closer,...
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72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
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"Discover the astounding ancient architecture, the history of civilization, and the beauty of our planet in these Wonders of the World. Become an eyewitness to the fascinating architectural feats and natural treasures of the world in this picture-led reference guide that will take you on a visual tour of more than 50 wonders of the world." -- Amazon.com.
Highlights the seven wonders of the world -- the Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon,...
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"Centuries after a miracle vanquished Tresttato's monsters and turned the soldiers fighting them to stone, Milo lovingly tends to the statues of those who protected the city. Raised with devout templars and scholars, autistic temple ward Milo wants nothing more than to be accepted into their ranks. When his prayers admiring her heroic sacrifice accidentally free Gia from stone, she wakes with a fury to kill the man Milo owes his life to, Primo Sanct...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
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"Over 5,000 years ago, a civilization developed along the Nile River whose sights and remnants are still enchanting people from all over the world. Huge wonderful pyramids, stone temples, decorated tombs, larger-than-life statues of rulers, tall columns, obelisks, and other memorials can be seen in Egypt wherever you look. Still, many sights are waiting to be freed from the African sands and it remains somewhat mysterious how Egyptian builders could...
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"One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim, until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science ... However, Senku and Ryusui are soon divided on how best to chart their course, leading to all-out war, in the form of a poker game"--
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One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim--until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! Senku and Dr. Xeno are the Stone World's top two scientists, and now they're teaming up in search of the origin of the petri-beam that zapped all of...
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"Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim -- until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! Senku and company are determined to reach the moon,...
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"One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim--until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! It's the final showdown against the unrelenting Stanley! The Kingdom of Science is losing the fight, but they do have one desperate strategy left--they...
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"45,000 years ago, rare and precious statues of faceless women with hourglass figures, sturdy hips and generous breasts surfaced across Europe. Spanning thousands of years and nurturing many a fantasy, they are known as the prehistoric Venus figurines. But what were the women who inspired these artefacts really like? For 150 years researchers offered no archaeological insights into the daily lives of prehistoric women and underestimated their role...
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"Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone ... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim -- until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! ... While the Kingdom of Science is busy reviving people,...
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"Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone ... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim -- until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! ... With a machine capable of producing unlimited revival...
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