Brian Williams
1) World War II
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Discover World War II facts and hear from people who lived through the war that shaped the modern world, from the cause of the conflict to the most important battles. From the prewar rise of Nazi Germany to the start of the war with the invasion of Poland in 1939 to the end of the war in 1945 and the Nuremburg Trials, all aspects of the deadliest conflict in human history are covered in great detail in DK findout! World War II with content that is...
4) Inferno in Chechnya: the Russian-Chechen wars, the Al Qaeda myth, and the Boston Marathon bombings
Author
Publisher
ForeEdge
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
In 2013, the United States suffered its worst terrorist bombing since 9/11 at the annual running of the Boston Marathon. When the culprits turned out to be U.S. residents of Chechen descent, Americans were shocked and confused. Why would members of an obscure Russian minority group consider America their enemy? Inferno in Chechnya is the first book to answer this riddle by tracing the roots of the Boston attack to the Caucasus Mountains of southern...
5) The bodies keep coming: dispatches from a black trauma surgeon on racism, violence, and how we heal
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all, from gunshot wounds to traumatic brain injuries. In The Bodies Keep Coming, Williams ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. Black bodies will continue to be wracked by violence, racism, and healthcare inequities until we enact changes of policy and law"--
6) Tunnels
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 1
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.
7) Freefall
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 3
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth.
8) Closer
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 4
Publisher
Chicken House,Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Will Burrows believes he is safe at the very center of the earth, in a world that no one knows exists, but the Styx are close behind and will follow him anywhere, while on the surface, Drake and some unlikely allies unearth some critical secrets.
9) Spiral
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The outer crust is under attack by the subterranean Styx who are turning ordinary humans into walking bombs and incubators for their eggs, and only Will Burrows and his band of retired commandos stand in their way--but the Styx also have problems of their own.
10) Terminal
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 6
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Styx and their cohorts of deadly Armagi have swept across England, leaving death and devastation in their wake. Only a miracle can save the day and, in the inner world at the centre of the earth, Will and Elliott might just have stumbled upon one as they uncover ancient secrets that are fundamental to all human and Styx life"--
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