Bandon Public Library

"Once upon a time, Black Republicans were revolutionaries. Today, many see them as traitors, selling their souls for power. In 2021, Black conservatives are the greatest grift. Journalist and radio host Clay Cane examines how the Republican party evolved into a safe space for racists and how Black Republicans attempt to gain power by aligning themselves with white supremacy. Black Republicans consistently make viral news, whether it's Senator Tim...

"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...

“A fascinating story” of the railways that linked America from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (The Washington Post).
 Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow unspools the history of the beginnings of the American railroad system. By the mid-nineteenth century, settlers in Missouri and California were separated by a vast landscape that dwarfed and isolated...

Uno de los títulos capitales en la obra de Said analiza con lucidez y desde dentro el conflicto palestino-israelí. Este inteligente ensayo, publicado por vez primera en 1979, fue pionero al abrir un serio debate, desde el punto de vista palestino, sobre el conflicto que desde hace más de sesenta años desangra Oriente Próximo. Said, con el rigor, inteligencia y claridad que caracterizan su obra, presenta los orígenes del enfrentamiento entre...

"In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest--Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas across the country, an experiment in cooperative living...

Master the art of growing healthy, robust and gorgeous bonsai trees and unlock the therapeutic benefits of the ancient practice with this comprehensive guide to cultivating bonsai trees

Have you ever laid eyes upon a magnificent bonsai tree and wondered if you could replicate that beauty in your own home and private space? Do you want to adopt a wholesome new hobby that will develop your gardening chops while helping

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Emiliano Bruner, uno de los principales expertos en paleoantropología, nos muestra cómo evolucionó el cerebro desde los primeros homininos hasta el homo sapiens. La complejidad del cerebro humano es tal, que en ocasiones se la ha comparado con la del universo entero: cerca de cien mil millones de neuronas, con billones de conexiones entre ellas. Todo ese enjambre neuronal es capaz de generar capacidades sorprendentes, desde el lenguaje, el pensamiento...

¿Alguna vez has considerado regalar a los más pequeños de la familia un viaje sin igual a un mundo lleno de fantasía y conocimiento? ¿Qué podría ser más entretenido que un libro que no solo permite imaginar, sino que también nutre sus mentes en desarrollo?

Imagina momentos especiales en familia, enriquecidos por animadas risas y conversaciones,

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"The 1931 murder of 'Broadway Butterfly' Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft, corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalist's eye and a novelist's elegance to this story of Jazz Age New York."—New York Times
Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline...

"Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would...