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The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

Elizabeth B. White - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg - a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat - drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir.. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories...

Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America

Joy-Ann Reid - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times Bestseller"Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights work in the single most hostile and dangerous environment in America." - from...

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton - Legacy Lit
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Amazon Editor's Pick for Best Books of January. In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums, that the New York Times described as "fascinating...

American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Benjamin E. Park - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so-called burned-over district of western...

The Globe: How the Earth Became Round

James Hannam - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover

From Babylon to Columbus and beyond, a journey across millennia and - yes - the globe exploring how we came to understand our spherical planet. The Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the form of the world: that the Earth is round and not flat. Philosophers in ancient...

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