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History and Current Events
November 2025

Recent Releases
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
by John U. Bacon

Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking, bestselling author John U. Bacon's (The Great Halifax Explosion) suspenseful latest explores the maritime disaster's cause and aftermath and includes interviews with the victims' families. For fans of: The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger.
Apocalypse : how catastrophe transformed our world and can forge new futures by Lizzie Wade
Apocalypse : how catastrophe transformed our world and can forge new futures
by Lizzie Wade

A new view on the great human tradition of apocalypse, from the rise of Homo sapiens in our deep past to the climate instability of our present, and a look at how the new tools of archaeology reveal these upheavals as moments that created the world we live in and continue to offer surprising opportunities for radical change. Maps.
The devil's castle : Nazi eugenics, euthanasia, and how psychiatry's troubled history reverberates today by Susanne Antonetta
The devil's castle : Nazi eugenics, euthanasia, and how psychiatry's troubled history reverberates today
by Susanne Antonetta

Tracing the legacy of psychiatric abuse from Nazi-era eugenics to present-day mental health care, this narrative intertwines historical accounts and personal experience to expose enduring cultural failures in treating neurodiversity and calls for a more humane, inclusive vision of mind care.
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
by Anne Sebba

Bestselling author Anne Sebba's (Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy) moving account chronicles the lesser-known story of the all-women orchestra at Auschwitz-Birkenau, whose 40 members included both Jewish and non-Jewish musicians and whose conductor, Alma Rosé (Gustav Mahler's niece), demanded excellence to ensure her fellow prisoners' survival. For fans of: The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington.
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History -- and How It Shattered a Nation
by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Journalist and Too Big to Fail author Andrew Ross Sorkin's richly detailed latest offers an evocative account of the Wall Street crash of 1929, which spurred the worldwide Great Depression. Further reading: Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression by Christopher Knowlton. 
Focus on: Native American Heritage Month
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
by Ned Blackhawk

Winner of the National Book Award, Western Shoshone Yale historian Ned Blackhawk's incisive and richly detailed study explores how Indigenous Americans were instrumental to the evolution of United States history. Try this next: Indigenous Continent: The Epic Conquest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen.
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
by Caroline Dodds Pennock

Caroline Dodds Pennock's thought-provoking revisionist history explores how Indigenous Americans who willingly traveled or were forcibly transported to Europe during the Age of Discovery impacted the politics and culture of their colonizers. Try this next: African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele.
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
by Kathleen DuVal

Historian Kathleen DuVal's sweeping and scholarly Pulitzer Prize winner offers a corrective to Eurocentric narratives about Indigenous Americans by spotlighting one thousand years of Native autonomy, governance, and resistance. For fans of: The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk.
A Two-spirit Journey : The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-cree Elder by Ma-nee Chacaby
A Two-spirit Journey : The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-cree Elder
by Ma-nee Chacaby

 
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