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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones - One World
Format: Hardcover
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In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred... |
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The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains
Choo WaiHong - I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Format: Hardcover
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In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the "Kingdom of Women", where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where... |
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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
Sarah McCammon - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon's story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes... |
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Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Jody Rosen - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century worldThe bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly at odds with our age of smartphones and ride-sharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet.... |
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
David Gibbins - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time.. The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's... |
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Pickett's Charge: A New Look at Gettysburg's Final Attack
Phillip Thomas Tucker - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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Main Selection of the History Book ClubThe Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War's turning point, produced over 57,000 casualties, the largest number from the entire war that was itself America's bloodiest conflict. On the third day of fierce fighting, Robert E. Lee's attempt... |
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Chantha Nguon - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. . Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education.... |
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