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Master of the Delta

by KCOnDemand.com Kansas City

'In the early 1950s, Jack Branch returns to his hometown of Lakeland to teach at the local high school as his father did before him. The Branchs are the aristocracy of this southern community and Jack has attended some of the finest private schools and universities. The Branchs see teaching as the noblesse oblige to the community that has been the family home for more than a hundred years. Jack is challenged by his unmotivated students and attempts to engage them by introducing a course on evil. He peppers his lectures with examples of horrid deeds from the past such as the shipwreck of the Medusa. '>

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Conspirata

Conspirata

Conspirata is a work of historical fiction set in Ancient Rome. A sequel to Harris’ novel Imperium, Conspirata continues the story of the life of the great orator and politician Cicero. The book begins in the year 63 B.C., when Cicero was elected consul of Rome.
Master of the Delta

Master of the Delta

'In the early 1950s, Jack Branch returns to his hometown of Lakeland to teach at the local high school as his father did before him. The Branchs are the aristocracy of this southern community and Jack has attended some of the finest private schools and universities. The Branchs see teaching as the noblesse oblige to the community that has been the family home for more than a hundred years. Jack is challenged by his unmotivated students and attempts to engage them by introducing a course on evil. He peppers his lectures with examples of horrid deeds from the past such as the shipwreck of the Medusa. '>
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

In 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin defied Jim Crow and refused her bus seat to a white woman, setting the stage for the Montgomery bus boycotts. But the black citizens of Montgomery were not yet ready for Claudette’s defiance. They were afraid of the consequences that her actions might bring to them, and did not see her as an appropriate representative of the black community. Instead of showing support, they mocked and shunned her.
Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road

Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road

In a ten-month time span in 1997 and 1998, Neil Peart lost his 19-year-old daughter to a single-car accident and his wife to cancer. He was devastated. Peart is best-known as the drummer for the Canadian rock band Rush. He’s also their lyricist. Yet Ghost Rider, his chronicle of healing from his terrible losses, reveals talents barely hinted at in his music career.
Remarkable Creatures

Remarkable Creatures

This is the story of an unusual friendship that developed between poor, uneducated Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, a middle-class spinster in early 1800s England, pre-Darwin. They shared a common passion of fossil-hunting and through trials and tribulations maintained a friendship for several decades. Mary Anning’s discoveries of fossilized skeletons of the ichthyosaurus and plesiosaurus rocked the scientific and religious worlds.
Asthma: The Biography

Asthma: The Biography

Mark Jackson, Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter, contributed a volume on asthma for Oxford University Press’s series Biographies of Disease. Asthma and allergies, as you may know, have been on a progressive trend afflicting more and more people since the beginning of the 20th century. Knowing this, I was interested to see what asthma was like in the ancient, medieval, and early modern periods of history. In addition, I wanted to know the latest theories explaining this increasing trend.
Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend

Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend

If you’ve ever done genealogical (or historical) research and felt the intrigue and energy of peeling back layers of information to open windows on the past, this is a beautifully written description of the process. Ms. Gerzina embarked on a search to authenticate the story of Lucy Terry. Born a slave in pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts, Lucy Terry was reputed to have argued a case before the Supreme Court. How much of this story could be true?

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