The Ocean Blue: A History of Maritime Trade, Naval Warfare, and Exploration
by Bruce Wilson Jr.
The oceans of the globe both connect and separate the world. Seafaring cultures have shaped the landscape of history. Battles at sea have defined warfare for millennia. The ocean influences art, music, literature, and architecture. This book explores all the ways that the ocean has shaped our history from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians to the modern day.
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Five Little Peppers Grown Up (Five little Peppers, #3)
by Margaret Sidney
4 out of 5 stars
The five Pepper children are mostly grown up now. Polly is quite a young lady in society, but her greatest dream is to teach music lessons like she always planned. However, there are quite a few young gentlemen who have been captured by her beauty and her sweet manner. Polly is distressed by their attentions and wishes only to focus on her music and her family.
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One Day at a Time: 365 Innovations, Discoveries, and Triumphs in World History
by Bruce Wilson Jr.
History is a deep well of wild facts and weird stories. This book presents 365 amazing events in history that still shape our world today. We begin with the first known writing from 3100 BC and travel through history all the way to 2019 when scientists were able to take the first photograph of a black hole. This book includes artists, scientists, royals, politicians, engineers, musicians, doctors, and ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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Interior Design 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Transforming Your Home
by Barbara Moreau
Have you ever wanted to decorate your home, but had no idea where to start? This book gives practical tips for decorating with an intentional style that works with the space you have. There are sections about lighting, furniture layout, paint colors, textures, accessories, and storage. There are even some tips about using DIY projects to decorate on a budget!
Continue readingI received the Penguin Clothbound Classics Jane Austen boxed set for free from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. I’m so grateful to Penguin for sending me these beautiful editions!
Not only are the covers absolutely gorgeous, the box itself is beautiful too! I love that each book has a ribbon bookmark attached. Each book has a scholarly introduction, a timeline of Jane Austen’s life, and lengthy notes at the end explaining aspects of Regency history like money, class, marriage, titles, and everyday life.
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The Phone Book: Stay Safe, Be Smart, and Make the World Better with the Powerful Device in Your Hand
by Jessica Speer (Goodreads Author), Lesley Imgart (Illustrations)
When young teens get their first smartphone, it’s like a whole new digital world opens up for them. This book gives teens the tools and wisdom to navigate the online world with kindness and grace. Phone addiction is absolutely real and can have a negative impact on our lives, causing depression and anxiety as well as health issues. But it IS possible to have a healthy relationship with your phone!
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S is for Snow
by Ashley Marie Mireles (Goodreads Author)
This board book is a really fun way to celebrate winter and learn your ABCs! I is for icicle, and F is for figure skating. Z is for zero degrees! P is for polar bear, and M is for mittens. I had to look up “Y is for yukigassen”, and I learned that yukigassen in a Japanese snowball-fighting competition. Even the adults can learn something new with this book!
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D is for Dinosaur (ABC Primer)
by Christopher Robbins, Volha Kaliaha (Illustrator)
This board book introduces different dinosaurs from A to Z. Some of them are familiar, like the velociraptor and T-rex. But some dinosaurs are less well-known, like the zalmoxes or the jingshanosaurus.
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Buttons
by Kalli Dakos, Nichola Cowdery (Illustrator)
A young girl contemplates all the different buttons there are in life. Elevator buttons, doorbell buttons, and buttons to fasten our clothes. Buttons on planes and tractors that make engines go, buttons that turn on computers, and buttons that turn on lights. But there is one button that is all her own… her bellybutton!
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Master American History in 1 Minute A Day
by Dan Roberts
In one page snippets, you can learn about American history from Christopher Columbus to President Biden. The book is divided into sections about exploration, colonization, the American Revolution, nationalization, the American Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution, economic struggle and the World Wars, and the “era of social and economic advance”, finishing up by calling recent history “the era of reaction, social struggle, and political contention.”
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