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The Secret Lives of Dragons (PB) by Zoya Agnis
Category: Picture Books | Series: The\Secret Lives Ser.
Discover a whole new world of dragons in this beautifully illustrated book on the scaliest of magical creatures. From every detail of their wings to the history of their treasure, you'll learn about famous dragons from around the world. The latest research into dragon culture will be revealed, and you'l ...Show more
The Steel Master - A Life of Essington Lewis by Geoffrey Blainey
Category: Biography | Series: Australian Lives Ser.
The symbols of industrial might--iron, steel, power and energy--come easily to a description of Essington Lewis, perhaps the most formative CEO of BHP, and director-general of munitions and aircraft production during World War II. A personality of immense force, he had a deep and abiding dislike of pret ...Show more
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Category: No Category | Series: Lives of the Mayfair Witches Ser.
On the verandah of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. And the witching hour begins...Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches - a family give4n to poetry an ...Show more
Theodor Herzl - the Charismatic Leader by Derek Jonathan Penslar
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a masterful new biography of Theodor Herzl by an eminent historian of Zionism The life of Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could he ...Show more
Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero by Michael Korda
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
One of the first two volumes in Harper's Eminent Lives series, Korda brings his acclaimed storytelling talents to the life of Ulysses S. Grant - a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of grace, serve two terms as president, write one of the most successful military memoirs in American literatu ...Show more
Vergil: The Poet's Life by Sarah Ruden
Category: Biography | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creating this epic poem, Vergil (70-19 BCE) became the world's f ...Show more
Virginia Woolf by Nigel Nicolson
Category: Classics | Series: Lives Ser.
'You cannot find peace by avoiding life' Virginia WoolfAn intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author of them all - 'All you need to know about the modernist, feminist icon' TIME OUT'A gem' SUNDAY TIMES'As a short introduction to Virginia Woolf this deceptively b ...Show more
Warner Bros - The Making of an American Movie Studio by David Thomson
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy Warner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early 20th century through its ascent to the pin ...Show more
Wetland Animals by Deborah Hodge; Pat Stephens (Illustrator)
Category: Education | Series: Who Lives Here? Ser.
Wetlands are home to amazing animals whose bodies are built for living in or near the water. Hippos, crocodiles and anacondas all have special ways of finding food, staying safe and raising their young in a watery habitat.The Who Lives Here? series looks at animals in their natural habitats - rain fores ...Show more
Where Does God Live? by August Gold (Illustrator); Matthew J. Perlman (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: SkyLight Lives Ser.
"God's all there is and all that you see ""But I still don't see God so how can it be?" Where does God live? How can we "see" God? Using simple, everyday examples that children can relate to, this colorful book helps young readers develop a direct and personal understanding of God. Where Does God Live? ...Show more
Women in Business by Alexis Burling
Category: Education | Series: Women's Lives in History Ser.
Women have made a difference in every field imaginable, and they continue to do so today. Women's Lives in History introduces readers to dozens of these remarkable people. Women in Businessfeatures groundbreaking figures in beauty, food, banking, technology, and many other areas. Compelling text and viv ...Show more
Yayoi Kusama - Lives of the Artists by Robert Shore
Category: Art | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Nonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus movement to launch naked happenings in New York and went on to become a doyenne of that city's counter-cultura ...Show more