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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the East End of London to the eastern seaboard of the United States, from Spitalfields to Scottish castles, from Bletchley Park to Buchenwald, and from the Vatican to Palestine, Natalie Livingstone follows the extraordinary lives of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twenty-first. As Jews in a Christian society and women in a deeply patriarchal family, they were outsiders. Excluded from the...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating, highly visual biography of Mary Anning, the Victorian fossil hunter who changed scientific thinking about prehistoric life and would become one of the most celebrated paleontologists of all time. Mary Anning grew up on the south coast of England in a region rich in fossils. As teenagers, she and her brother Joseph discovered England's first complete ichthyosaur. Poor and uneducated, Anning would become one of the most celebrated paleontologists...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey's biography, The Churchill Sisters, tells their story. Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill girls - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in another family, they were Churchills, and neither they nor anyone else...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story 'Where are you from?' Hazel Carby was continually asked as a girl, at a time when being Black and being British was understood to be an impossibility. To answer that question properly, eminent scholar Hazel Carby finds she needs to trace not just the family history of her Jamaican father and her Welsh mother, but to untangle knots the British Empire created...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Most Anticipated Books of 2023: The Millions, The Rumpus "The poet Amy Key's first book might be the most hyped memoir of 2023 (or at least a close second to Spare)... This raw, gorgeous, pulsing memoir is...the harbinger of a real talent." --Laura Hackett, Sunday Times [UK] Amy Key--a writer "of rare and strange magic" (Guardian)--probes the art of living without romance in this soul-stirring debut.
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