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Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The silly true story of how Darwin discovered that the earthworm is one of the most important species on the planet. Without their life-sustaining poop, there would be no plants or animals on Earth. A scholarly worm gives historical facts and context on every page
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"The groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero. In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart--when the very future of the nation hung in the balance--Charles Sumner's voice rang strongest, bravest, and most unwavering. Where others preached compromise and moderation, he denounced slavery's evils to all who would listen and demanded that it be wiped...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness...
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