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History and Current Events December 2025 |
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When the City Stopped: Stories from New York's Essential Workers
by Robert W. Snyder
This book tells the story of COVID-19 in New York City through oral histories, poetry and first-person narratives. Emphasizing work, suffering, and coping, the book covers the winter of 2020 to the summer of 2023 and presents the words of New Yorkers from all five boroughs.
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| Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy by Julia IoffeIn this "pensive account of a revolution betrayed" (Kirkus Reviews), Moscow-born journalist Julia Ioffe's National Book Award finalist (as of publication time) explores a century of feminist history in Russia, revealing how women's freedoms after the Russian Revolution have devolved under the regime of Vladimir Putin. Try this next: Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women by Kristen Ghodsee. |
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A Short History of Ancient Rome
by Pascal Hughes
Experience the sights, sounds and smells of the Roman world, and meet its most intriguing and influential characters, as this immersive account brings 1000 years of history to life.
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| Dead and Alive: Essays by Zadie SmithZadie Smith's wide-ranging and witty latest collects 30 essays and talks penned during the last ten years, offering the author's reflections on pop culture, politics, loss, aging, and more. For fans of: Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson. |
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| On My Honor: The Secret History of the Boy Scouts of America by Kim ChristensenPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kim Christensen's posthumous exposé unflinchingly examines decades of sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts of America, whose known victims number 82,000 and counting. Further reading: Scout Camp: Sex, Death, and Secret Societies Inside the Boy Scouts of America by James Renner. |
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| Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950 by Eli ErlickIn this "essential and eye-opening paradigm shift" (Publishers Weekly), Trans Student Educational Resources founder Eli Erlick profiles 30 trailblazing transgender people whose stories have often been intentionally erased from history. Try this next: Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories by Diarmuid Hester. |
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The Lines We Draw: The Journalist, the Jew and an Argument about Identity
by Tim Franks
Tim Franks spent years as the BBC's Middle East Correspondent covering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. During that time, he was attacked as a self-hating Jew and as an Islamophobe – as a tool of competing, malign agendas. He always tried to respond with a journalist's detached curiosity, drawing a clear line between his identity and his work. Up to the point that he asked himself: is that necessary? Beyond the judgments of others: what does it mean to be Jewish?
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