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History & Biography October 2023 |
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Astor : the rise and fall of an American fortune by Anderson CooperThe number one New York Times best-selling authors of Vanderbilt turn their focus on another legendary American family that built a business empire and became the richest family in America. BIOGRAPHY ASTOR |
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Misfit : growing up awkward in the '80s by Gary GulmanTaking readers through every year of his education, from kindergarten to twelfth grade and beyond, the comedian and creator of The Great Depression, who struggles with his mental health, speaks directly to the awkward child in all of us. BIOGRAPHY GULMAN |
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A Man of Two Faces : a memoir, a history, a memorial by Viet Thanh NguyenExploring the necessity of both forgetting and of memory, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization and ideas about Vietnam and America as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son. BIOGRAPHY NGUYEN |
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The Life of Louis XVI by John HardmanLouis XVI of France, who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution and Reign of Terror, is commonly portrayed in fiction and film either as a weak and stupid despot in thrall to his beautiful, shallow wife, Marie Antoinette, or as a cruel and treasonous tyrant. Historian John Hardman disputes both these versions in a fascinating new biography of the ill-fated monarch. BIOGRAPHY LOUIS XVI |
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Creep : accusations and confessions by Myriam GurbaTaking us into the dark recesses of the toxic traditions that plague the U.S. and create the abusers who haunt our books, schools and homes, the author studies the ways in which oppression is collectively enacted and, interweaving her history and identity throughout, argues for a new way of conceptualizing oppression. BIOGRAPHY GURBA |
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Black AF history: the un-whitewashed story of America by Michael HarriotThe acclaimed columnist and political commentator presents a sharp and often hilarious retelling of American history that focuses on the overlooked contribution of Black Americans and corrects the idea that American history is white history. |
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Killing the Witches : the horror of Salem, Massachusetts by Bill O'ReillyRevisiting the Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693, during which more than 200 people were accused, this dramatic history of the Puritan tradition and how the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the US depicts good, evil, community panic and how fear can overwhelm fact and reason. |
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The Quickening : creation and community at the ends of the Earth by Elizabeth A. RushDocumenting the 2019 voyage of 57 scientists to Thwaites Glacier to learn about this mysterious place, never before visited by humans, this astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change and motherhood presents a new kind of story—one preoccupied with the collective and challenging work of imagining a better future. |
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Love in a Time of Hate : art and passion in the shadow of war by Florian IlliesBringing to life the most pivotal decade of the 20th century—the Roaring 20s, this brilliantly written popular history tells the stories of the fascinating and famous figures who made art and love, wrote and fought, bedded and wedded and betrayed. |
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Differ We Must : how Lincoln succeeded in a divided America by Steve InskeepThe host of NPR's Morning Edition illuminates Abraham Lincoln's life through 16 encounters, some well-known, some obscure, expanding our understanding of a politician who held strong to his moral compass while navigating between corrosive political factions—and who succeeded in uniting a nation. |
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