History and Current Events
May 2025
Recent Releases
Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
by Lucy Adlington

Bestselling author and clothes historian Lucy Adlington's well-researched follow-up to The Dressmakers of Auschwitz focuses on four Jewish girls whose experiences during the Holocaust unexpectedly intertwined thanks to their treasured red sweaters. Try this next: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family's Keepsake by Tiya Miles.
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
by Jim DeFede

Shares the experiences of the citizens of Gander, Newfoundland, who were hosts to the more than six thousand passengers of thirty-eight U.S.-bound jetliners forced to land there in the wake of the September 11th attacks.
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
by Sophie Gilbert

From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of early aughts pop culture.

What happened to feminism in the twenty-first century? Amid a collective reconsideration of the way women are treated in public, Girl on Girl is a blistering indictment of the matrix of misogyny that undergirded the cultural production of the early twenty-first century, and continues to shape our world today.
Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History
by Chris Whipple

The New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers and The Spymasters now turns his sharp eye towards the historic 2024 presidential race, providing the definitive, insider account of the most dramatic and significant political showdown in modern American history.
Focus on: Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
by Michael Luo

A New Yorker executive editor and writer follows the Chinese in America from the middle of the 19th century as they persisted amidst suspicion and as a native-born population took shape until finally, in 1965, America's gates swung open to people like his parents, immigrants from Taiwan. 
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
by Barbara Demick

The heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by China's one-child policy and the rise of international adoption--from the author of the National Book Award finalist Nothing to Envy, one of today's leading reporters.
Everything I learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
by Curtis Chin

The cofounder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop tells his story of growing up as a gay Chinese kid in 1980s Detroit and how he found refuge in a welcoming Chinese restaurant. 
Fighting for America: Nisei Soldiers
by Lawrence Matsuda

The last installment in a series of graphic novels that began with We Hereby Refuse (Washington State Book Award Finalist) and Those Who Helped Us:

This book tells the stories of six courageous Japanese American soldiers from the Pacific Northwest who volunteered to fight in the combined 442nd Regimental Combat Team with the 100th Infantry Battalion during World War II.
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