Colin Tudge
A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are ... [... more]
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Deborah Johnson
Deborah Johnson now lives and works in Columbus, Mississippi, after residing for many years in Italy. [... more]
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Tony Stewart
Tony Stewart divides his time between Lake Norman, North Carolina, and his boyhood home in Columbus, Indiana. The gritty inside story of a NASCAR champion. [... more]
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WIl Haygood
Wil Haygood is an award-winning writer for the Washington Post. He is also the author of In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. and his family memoir, The Haygoods of Columbus. [... more]
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Carson Mc Cullers
Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917. She died at age fifty in Nyack, New York. She is the author of, among other books, [... more]
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Sheila Williams
At forty-one, Juanita Lewis is running away from home, courtesy of a one-way ticket to Montana, a place that seems about as far away from the violence and poverty of the Columbus, Ohio, projects as the moon. She wants adventure and excitement-if ... [... more]
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Peter Sis / AUTHOR CATALOG
In this delightfully witty collection of poems, bestselling author Diane Ackerman shows how the senses shape and enrich Illus. in full color. The 15th century comes alive in this splendidly original picture book about Christopher Columbus. "The ... [... more]
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Ivan Van Sertima
They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America. Examining navigation and shipbuilding; cultural analogies between Native Americans and ... [... more]
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Maria Finn Dominguez
Since Columbus arrived in 1492 and called Cuba "the most beautiful country that human eyes have ever seen," few places on earth have evoked such passion. The thirty-one writers in Maria Finn Dominguez offer ample proof of the fascinations that . [... more]
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Diana Abu-Jaber
Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of Crescent, which was awarded the 2004 PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and was named one of the twenty best novels of 2003 by The Christian Science ... [... more]
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Ovidio Guaita
From the era of Christopher Columbus, and even earlier, colonists left their home countries to venture to far-away lands. As they settled permanently into outposts in the farthest reaches of the globe, the colonists built residences that combined ... [... more]
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Malachy McCourt
Could an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medieval text of St. Brendan, award-winning ... [... more]
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