Set in an alternate US during the height of the Red Scare, this is the story of a country where terror and paranoia rises unchecked, and one LAPD detective stumbles on a dangerous conspiracy.
20th century
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Auteur:Duder, CameronSommaire:The lives of lesbians who grew up before 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have illuminated the worlds of upper-middle-class "romantic friends" and working-class butch and femme women who frequented lesbian bars in the ’50s and...
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Auteur:Loyie, Oskiniko LarrySommaire:Tells the story of Larry Loyie, a Cree Indian in Canada, who was sent to a government school and later became a writer.
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Like Anne Frank, Corrie ten Boom, and Viktor Frankl, Kitty de Ruyter-Bons endured the terror of man's inhumanity to man during World War II. In this inspiring and powerful true story, Kitty testifies of the triumph of the human spirit...
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Auteur:Blodgett, E. DSommaire:Nothing Is But You and I, the breathtaking new volume in the Apostrophes series, reveals poet E.D. Blodgett at his most accomplished. A masterful lyrical grace meets exquisite technique as Blodgett fathoms intimacy, knowledge, and being...
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Auteur:Sexton, AnneSommaire: - Auteur:Batistich, AmeliaSommaire:
A collection of stories centred on Dalmatian families in New Zealand.
- Auteur:Schrecker, EllenSommaire:
In this course, Yeshiva University history professor Ellen Schrecker investigates the early years of the Cold War and the anticommunist witch hunt that we now call McCarthyism as it swept through Americna society.
- Auteur:Dauber, Jeremy AsherSommaire:
Jeremy Dauber tells the sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination.
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Auteur:Belton, JohnSommaire: - Auteur:Rasenberger, Jim.Sommaire:
Beginning with New York City's first ever New Year's ball drop, 1908 got off to a spectacular start. As the year went on, America witnessed President Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet sailing around the globe, Henry Ford's unveiling...
- Auteur:Donner, RebeccaSommaire:
Born in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began secret resistance meetings in her apartment, then became a spy. When the...
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Auteur:Cazenave, Odile M.Sommaire: - Auteur:Boekweg, SheenaSommaire:
In 1927, seventeen-year-old Elsie and three other teenage girls compete for the heart of a boy who will be president. But Elsie starts to wonder what would happen if the name on that future ballot was hers.
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Auteur:Lightman, Alan P.Sommaire:In a series of essays, Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power of imagination, the creative moment, and the alternate ways in which scientists and humanists think about the world. Along the way, he provides in-depth...
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Auteur:Sommaire:"A Queer Love Story presents the first fifteen years of letters between Jane Rule--novelist and the first widely recognized "public lesbian" in North America--and Rick Bébout, journalist and editor with the Toronto-based Body Politic,...
- Auteur:Lodge, DavidSommaire:
As he lies dying in 1944 in Lodge's fictional account, H.G. Wells takes the opportunity to reflect on his many sexual conquests, but finds himself focusing on his memories of a handful of wives and mistresses. Recollecting his time with...
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- Auteur:Conant, JennetSommaire:
Conant delivers a stunning account of Julia Child's early life as an Office of Special Services agent in the Far East. Who would ever suspect that Julia Child--TV's popular cooking show host and master of French cuisine--was once a...
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