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|  | Sadako by Ed Young, Ed Young`, Eleanor Coerr
A picture-book version of a longer story told in the author's book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes . Sadako Sasaki was a young girl when she died of leukemia, a direct result of radiation poising from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Japanese legend says that if an ill person folds 1,000 cranes out of paper, the gods will make that person well again. Desperately ill, Sadako attempted to make 1,000 cranes, but died before she was able to complete the task. She ultimately became a symbol for peace, and even today, children all over the world send paper cranes and their own prayers for world peace to Japan in honor of Sadako. Illustrated with pastel artwork. AUTHOR: Ed Young, Ed Young`, Eleanor Coerr
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Building a Bridge to 18th Century by Neil Postman
In this analysis, a social critic examines the scientific and intellectual climate of the 18th century, and suggests that readers guide themselves into the 21st century by applying the wisdom of the past. AUTHOR: Neil Postman
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair by Paul W. Foos
The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) found Americans on new terrain. A republic founded on the principle of armed defense of freedom was now going to war on behalf of Manifest Destiny, seeking to conquer an unfamiliar nation and people. Through an examination of rank-and-file soldiers, Paul Foos sheds new light on the war and its effect on attitudes toward other races and nationalities that stood in the way of American expansionism. Drawing on wartime diaries and letters not previously examined by scholars, Foos shows that the experience of soldiers in the war differed radically from the positive, patriotic image trumpeted by political and military leaders seeking recruits for a volunteer army. Promised access to land, economic opportunity, and political equality, the enlistees instead found themselves subjected to unusually harsh discipline and harrowing battle conditions. As a result, some soldiers adapted the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny to their own purposes, taking for themselves what had been promised, often by looting the Mexican countryside or committing racial and sexual atrocities. Others deserted the army to fight for the enemy or seek employment in the West. These acts, Foos argues, along with the government's tacit acceptance of them, translated into a more violent, damaging variety of Manifest Destiny. AUTHOR: Paul W. Foos
PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | French Revolutions by Tim Moore
Description not available.The humorous account of an amateur's participation in the Tour de France documents his resolve to complete all 2,256 miles of the competition, his use of hay fever pills for ephedrine boosts, his addition of cheap wine to his water bottle, and his encounters with some of the race's top heroes, including Lance Armstrong. 15,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Tim Moore
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Cadences of Home by Walter Bruggemann
A powerful perspective about preaching, Cadences of Home suggests that sermons must speak to those who are lost and searching for their rightful home. Brueggemann argues for a dynamic transformation of preaching to proclaim to the world that there is a home for all people. AUTHOR: Walter Bruggemann
PUBLISHER: Westminster John Knox Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Efrain of the Sonoran Desert by Gary Paul Nabhan, Janet K. Miller
The very first thing that you see when you reach the beach and leave your boat behind in the shallows of the Sea of Cortez is a lizard running away from the water. It curls its tail high so the waves won't get it wet. That's what Gary Paul Nabhan remembers about his first visit to the Seri village in Kino Bay. There he met storyteller Amalia Astorga. She tells him the bittersweet history of Efrain, a sun-blotched lizard. In so doing, she helps him to understand how the Seris have protected a species that everywhere else is endangered. Together Amalia and Gary give young readers an insight into the life and culture of the Seris, an endangered people themselves, but a people who know how to love their land and its inhabitants. AUTHOR: Gary Paul Nabhan, Janet K. Miller
PUBLISHER: Cinco Puntos Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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