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History and Current Events April 2024
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| 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed by Eric KlinenbergSociologist and bestselling author Eric Klinenberg's (Palaces for the People) sobering study offers a compelling look at the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic through the experiences of seven New Yorkers. Try this next: The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID by Lawrence Wright. |
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| A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging by Lauren MarkhamJournalist Lauren Markham's "remarkable, unnerving, and cautionary portrait of a global immigration crisis" (Kirkus Reviews) chronicles the aftermath of the 2020 burning of a large refugee camp in Greece, in which young Afghan migrants were falsely accused of arson. Try this next: The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri. |
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| Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuadeMSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade's accessible debut explores how disinformation campaigns perpetuated by the Trump administration continue to play a detrimental role in undermining American democracy. Further reading: Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely. |
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| A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime by Casey ShermanJournalist and screenwriter Casey Sherman revisits the 1958 murder of mobster Johnny Stompanato by Cheryl Crane, the 14-year-old daughter of his girlfriend, actress Lana Turner, in this dramatic true crime account. For fans of: Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann. |
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| The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in... by James L. SwansonHistorian James L. Swanson's fast-paced latest chronicles "one of the most dramatic episodes in colonial American history" -- the 1704 attack on the Deerfield settlement in Massachusetts conducted by a party of 204 Native and French raiders. Try this next: Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace. |
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