Wings of Red by James W. Jennings Requirements: .ePUB readers, 1.5 MB | RetailOverview: An inventive and stylish debut written by a Black educator, Wings of Red is a clear-eyed, funny, imperfect, and observant work of autofiction that grapples with the absurdity of the New York City educational system as a substitute teacher—that, in the […]
The Ordered Day: Quotidian Time and Forms of Life in Ancient Rome by James Ker (Cultural Histories of the Ancient World)Requirements: .PDF reader, 124 mbOverview: Traces how the day has served as a key organizing concept in Roman culture―and beyond. How did ancient Romans keep track of time? What constituted a day in ancient Rome […]
MacArthur Reconsidered: General Douglas MacArthur as a Wartime Commander by James Ellman Requirements: .ePUB reader, 5.1 MbOverview: James Ellman digs deep, connects the dots, and concludes that General Douglas MacArthur was decidedly not a military genius. One of America’s most controversial generals, Douglas MacArthur’s rise through the U.S. Army’s ranks was meteoric. However, he did […]
Odd Science: Incredible Creatures by James OlsteinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 36 MBOverview: Odd Science: Incredible Creatures is filled with weird and wacky facts – read about the dinosaur that used camouflage, wonder at the penguins that ‘propose’ to each other with rocks and tell your friends that the dodo was actually quite smart! Prepare to laugh, […]
Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond by Madeline Ashby and David Nickle (Editors)Requirements: .ePUB , 1.2 MBOverview: An anthology of collected stories from various Canadian authors, based on Ian Fleming’s fourteen published Bond novels, edited by Canadian genre authors Madeline Ashby and David Nickle.Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller Forward by Matt ShermanIntroduction: The Bitch is Dead […]