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Series
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a failed utopia, an exiled woman fights to be reunited with her children by harnessing the mythic power that changed the planet forever. From the Sunday Times bestselling creator of Newbury & Hobbes and author of numerous comics and novels for Star Wars, Doctor Who, and Warhammer 40,000, comes an epic modern fantasy, rich in mythology and adventure, with an emotional personal story at its heart.
Author
Series
Family Tree volume 5
Language
English
Description
The supernatural family drama continues! Grandpa Judd refuses to give up the fight with the Arborists, even as his young granddaughter Meg begins what could be her final transformation into a tree…or is it the world that will be transformed forever?
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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A travel narrative following three ancient roads and looking at more than two thousand years of history of Ancient Rome through the modern eye.
In 66 b.c., young, ambitious Julius Caesar, seeking recognition and authority, became the curator of the Via Appia, a road stretching from Rome to Brindisi. To gain popularity with Roman citizens along the way, he borrowed significant sums to restore the ancient
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part travelogue, part memoir, part essay in history, the author, drawing on decades of archival research, charts the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India and China -- and on contemporary globalism itself, revealing the role one small plant had in making our world, now teetering on the edge of catastrophe.
Author
Publisher
CABI
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
520 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Plants and plant-derived products make up the bulk of what we eat and drink every day. This scientifically accurate photographic guide provides quick and colourful answers. Food plants of the world is a comprehensive overview of the plants that provide us with food, beverages, spices and flavours. It is written in easy language but gives accurate scientific information on the plants and their uses.
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read and write the natural world around us and reclaim our relationship with it. In this gorgeously illustrated and deeply thoughtful collection, Katie Holten gifts readers her tree alphabet and uses it to masterfully translate and illuminate beloved lost...
18) Market day
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's time to go to the market! Mama Cat is selling her most delicious desserts, from bright rainbow cookies to shimmering sunshine muffins. Can cute kitten siblings Nutmeg, Cinnamon, and Ginger find the perfect present to treat their Mama? Maybe a colorful shell, a shimmering sweater, or an enchanted packet of seeds? Time to explore a colorful, crowded, and dazzling fantasy market"--
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 320 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio, the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass house, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown thirty-five years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion."--Jacket flap.
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Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvi, 338 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
In a sweeping analysis of religion in the post-Civil War and twentieth-century South, Freedom's Coming puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctified dominant political and social hierarchies, evangelical belief and practice subtly undermined them. The seeds of subversion, Paul Harvey argues, were embedded in the passionate individualism, exuberant...
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