The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of song Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the Library of Congress and by the late 1930s brought his discoveries to radio, including Woody Guthri...
Roses at Dawn in an Ice Age World (Lodging for the Rose, #3)
by Rolf A F Witzsche
Real History: More Stories of the War That Divided America (Civil War Adventure, #2)
by Chuck Dixon
The Adventure of Cornflakes (Adventure of Cornflakes, #1)
by Cole Mulloy and Kourtney Hunt
Orbit: The Digital Empire: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg & Jack Dorsey
by Patrick McCray and CW Cooke
Tale of an Iconoclast
by Sumiko Saulson, Carolyn Saulson, and Franchesca Saulson
Como Dibujar Anime, Vol. 5: Chicas En Accion (Como Dibujar Anime)
by Tadashi Ozawa
A graphic retelling of America's global search for one of the most notorious fugitives in modern times. From the tragedy of September 11, 2001, to the events that brought a global search for one of the most notorious fugitives in modern times to a dramatic end, Killing Geronimo is the compelling graphic retelling of the hunt for Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden . . . from the initial order by President George W. Bush to find him wherever he might be hiding, to the CIA's finally tracking the cou...
In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both wartime industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement, setting the stage for massive turmoil and racial violence. Thirty-four people were killed, most of whom were Black, and over half of these were killed by police. Two thousand people were arrested, and over seven hundred sustained injuries requiring treatment at local hospitals...
Uprooted from her childhood in Germany and set adrift in the American Midwest, Maureen was raised by a kind but neglectful mother who loved Jesus more than her own child and a stern, disinterested grandmother who waxed nostalgic about Nazi Germany. Growing up queer and isolated, Maureen often felt unmoored and unloved. Years later, Maureen reflects upon her complicated past. Queen of Snails follows Maureen through time and memory in her quest to untangle the trauma passed down to her over three...
Knights of the Skull, Vol. 2: Germany's Panzer Forces in WWII, Barbarossa
by Wayne Vansant
Knights of the Skull is a full-color, graphic non-fiction series chronicling the development of the German Panzer (armored) forces in World War II. Volume 2 starts with the April 1941 Balkans and Greece campaigns, then moves into the planning and early months of Operation Barbarossa—the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. With detailed, and historically accurate illustrations of vehicles, uniforms, locations, and characters, this vivid chronicle of the early years of World War II i...
