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New History & Biography FEBRUARY |
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We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America by Norah O'DonnellA vivid portrait of the unsung American women from 1776 to today who changed the course of history in their fight for freedom and helped shape a more perfect union. Through extensive research and interviews, as well as historical documents and old photos, O'Donnell curates a compelling portrait of these fierce fighters for freedom. From Mary Katherine Goddard, who printed the first signed Declaration of Independence, to the Forten family women, who were active in the abolition and suffrage movements and were considered the Black Founders of Philadelphia, O'Donnell brings extraordinary women together for the first time, and in doing so writes the American story anew.
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Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America's Most Radical Revolutionary by Nina SankovitchA thrilling celebration of a forgotten early American renegade. In 1776 in Cumberland, Rhode Island, Jemima Wilkinson died of a fever, and the Public Universal Friend was born. The newly born "Friend" claimed to be a genderless messenger of God. The creation of Public Universal Friend set war-ravaged New England ablaze. To authorities Friend was the devil in petticoats, a threat to the men who sought to keep America's power for themselves. So, the Public Universal Friend ventured west to create an Eden on the frontier, a place where everyone would have the right to not only life, liberty, and the pursuit happiness, but also peace and shared prosperity. Soon, financial scams, contested wills, adultery, plagiarism, and allegations of murder would threaten to destroy this new American utopia.
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Two Women Living Togetherby Kim HanaWhen most of their peers were moving in with romantic partners and having children, Hana and Sunwoo chose independence--savoring solitude, quiet mornings, and the unmitigated freedom of living alone. But in their forties, something shifted, and they were met with a new, unexpected loneliness. Refusing to settle for the outdated choice between marriage or isolation, Hana and Sunwoo made a radical decision: to buy a home and live together--not as lovers, not as roommates, but as chosen family. Together they navigate the challenges and comforts of cohabiting in midlife, the growing pains of interdependence and the unexpected rewards of compromise when you've grown set in your ways.
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Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America by Eugene RobinsonPulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation’s torturous racial history through his own family’s story, starting with his great-grandfather’s freedom from slavery and threading his way to his own narrative and reaching today’s Black Lives Matter movement, asking whether this time will be different.
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A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle PelicotThe sexual assault that stunned the world. A courageous woman’s rallying call for shame to “change sides.” For the very first time, Gisèle Pelicot tells her story. A Hymn to Life is a moving story of survival, testimony, and courage, and an unforgettable portrait of a woman who broke her silence, reclaimed her voice, and forced a reckoning.
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Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery by Gavin NewsomFrom California Governor Gavin Newsom, an intimate and reflective memoir laying bare the defining moments of his liminal childhood splintered by his parents' divorce that shaped Newsom's visionary and relentless commitment to the state and nation.
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One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette WintersonOne of the most daring and inventive writers of our time weaves together memoir, manifesto, and a feminist reimagining of One Thousand and One Nights in this impassioned exploration of the power of reading. Winterson cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One Nights to explore new and ancient questions. Who should we trust? Is love the most important thing in the world? As a young working-class woman, with no obvious future beyond factory work or marriage, Winterson realizes through the power of books that she can read herself as fiction as well as a fact: I can change the story because I am the story. Weaving together fiction, magic, and memoir, Winterson's newest is a tribute to the age-old tradition of storytelling.
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