May 2018 list by Dan Berube
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The Line Becomes a River
by Francisco Cantú
An award-winning writer and former agent for the U.S. Border Patrol describes his upbringing as the son of a park ranger and grandson of a Mexican immigrant, who, upon joining the Border Patrol, encountered the violence and political rhetoric that overshadows life for both migrants and the police.
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| Rocket Men by Robert KursonThe inside, lesser-known story of NASA's boldest and riskiest mission: Apollo 8, mankind's first journey to the Moon on Christmas in 1968. With a focus on astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, and their wives and children, this is a vivid, gripping, you-are-there narrative. |
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| The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont; illustrated by Manjit Thapp An inspiring collection of 100 biographical portraits of trailblazing women throughout history, featuring anecdotes, trivia, and full-color illustrations.
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In the Enemy's House
by Howard Blum
Chronicles the true story of a recently declassified counterintelligence mission and the two remarkable agents who uncovered a network of strategically placed Soviet spies whose goal was to steal critical American military and atomic secrets.
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Visionary Women
by Andrea Barnet
Discusses four influential women we thought we knew well—Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall and Alice Waters—and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movement. Consummate outsiders, each prevailed against powerful and mostly male adversaries while also anticipating the disaffections of the emerging counterculture.
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The Most Dangerous Man in America
by Bill Minutaglio
Presents an account of Timothy Leary's 1970 prison escape and run from the law, detailing the events that led to his incarceration, his support by the terrorist group Weather Underground and his targeting by Richard Nixon.
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Harry: Life, Loss, and Love
by Katie Nicholl
Katie Nicholl details the most insightful book on Prince Harry to date, based on exclusive interviews with former Palace aides, courtiers, friends, and family members, and including stories, clandestine lovers, family feuds, and family secrets never before revealed.
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To the Edges of the Earth
by Edward J. Larson
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents an analysis of an exceptional year during the peak of exploration, 1909, that was marked by record-setting expeditions to the North and South Poles and the legendary K2 mountain in the Himalayas.
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When Montezuma Met Cortés
by Matthew Restall
The author presents an extensively researched account of the early 16th-century encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that overturns what is popularly understood about the natures of both men and the Spanish conquest of the Americas.
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Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History
by Roy Adkins
Describes the four-year siege against the British on the small territory of Gibraltar by Spanish and French forces that put soldiers, civilians and families through bombardments, starvation and disease in a fortress on 2 square miles of rock.
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