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History and Current Events November 2019
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The Berlin mission : the American who resisted Nazi Germany from within
by Richard Breitman
Describes the US ambassador in Berlin who defied the Nazis and helped Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud leave Europe and challenged the police state’s abuse of Americans while maintaining working relationships with Himmler, Heydrich and Göring. An unknown story of an unlikely hero--the US consul who best analyzed the threat posed by Nazi Germany and predicted the horrors to come.
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Ordinary girls : a memoir
by Jaquira Díaz
With a story reminiscent of Tara Westover's Educate and Roxane Gay's Hunger, celebrated writer Jaquira Díaz triumphantly maps a way out of despair toward love and hope and delivers a memoir that reads as electrically as a novel.
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Volume control : hearing in a deafening world
by David Owen
Citing the millions of Americans suffering from hearing loss and the stigmas and costs that challenge treatment, a New Yorker staff writer outlines the science of hearing while profiling the remarkable new technologies of today’s medical community.
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