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The Iliad (Mentor Series)

by Homer
Paperback, 1950
Tags
Classics, Homer, Graeco-Roman
Collection
Anna

The Iliad of Homer

by Homer
Hardcover, 1943
Tags
Classics, Homer, Iliad, Trojan War, Illustrated
Collection
Gifts

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari
Paperback, 2018
Tags
History, Agricultural Revolution, Scientific Revolution, Economics, Industrial Revolution, Religion
Collection
Gifts

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

by Edward E Baptist
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
History, Slavery, Western Hemisphere Slavery, US History, US Slavery, Expansion of Slavery, Cotton, Tobacco, Industrial Revolution, Slave Narratives, American Capitalism — 2 more, 1619, US Civil War
Collection
Gifts

Lives in ruins: archaeologists and the seductive lure of human rubble

by Marilyn Johnson
Paper Book, 2014
Tags
Archaeology, Biographies, Adventure, Looting
Collection
Don

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

by Mary Beard
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Graeco-Roman World, Roman History, Roman Empire, Romulus, Remus, Bibliography, Julius Caesar
Collection
Gifts

The library book

by Susan Orlean
Paper Book, 2018
Tags
Libraries, Destruction of Libraries, History of Libraries
Collection
Gifts

The Library Book

by Susan Orlean
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Libraries, Destruction of Libraries, History of Libraries, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

Underland : a deep time journey

by Robert Macfarlane
Paper Book, 2019
Tags
Subterranean Mysteries, Paris Catacombs, Glaciers, Caves, Bronze Age, Nuclear Waste
Collection
Don

Shubeik Lubeik (Pantheon Graphic Library)

by Deena Mohamed
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
Egyptian Themed Literature, Graphic Novels, Djinn, Wishes, Alternate History, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith (the Filmmaker, Folklorist, and Mystic who Transformed American Art)

by John Szwed
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
Biographies, Counterculture, Comparative and Western Religion, Indigenous Peoples, Pacific Northwest, Florida, Greenwich Village, Crowley, R Crumb, Magickal Childe, OTO — 1 more, Magic
Collection
Gifts
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