History and Current Events
June 2025
Recent Releases
Ocean : Earth's Last Wilderness
by David Attenborough

Through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science, Ocean uncovers the mystery, the wonder, and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on our planet--the one which shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate, and creates the air we breathe. This book showcase the oceans' remarkable resilience: they can, and in some cases have, recovered the fastest, if we only give them the chance. 
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
by William Dalrymple

Bestselling author and historian William Dalrymple's scholarly latest reveals the overlooked role India played in shaping ancient civilization's culture, politics, religion, economy, and more. For fans of: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan.
Shameless : Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy
by Brian Tyler Cohen

Drawing on interviews and insights with luminaries of the Left, a leading progressive voice—and the first content creator to interview President Biden—lays bare the long con of the modern Republican, explaining how American politics has turn into a dumpster fire and what we can do to preserve democracy.
Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
by Alan Weisman

Environmental journalist Alan Weisman's moving and upbeat account profiles inspiring individuals around the world (including scientists, engineers, politicians, and activists) who are fighting to combat climate change. Further reading: Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change by Kylie Flanagan.
D-Day : The Unheard Tapes
by Geraint Jones

D-Day was bloody, chaotic and frequently terrifying. Its outcome was far from certain. And at its epicentre were tens of thousands of young men, many seeing their first active service. It was a single day that changed millions of lives. A critical turning point of the Second World War. Using audio interviews with British, American, Canadian and German veterans, as well as French civilians, this immersive new oral history describes what it was actually like to take part in the landings on 6 June 1944 and the weeks of ferocious fighting in Normandy that followed.
Road Masters : 150 Cars That Changed the World
by Dave Morley

An entertaining look at the five best and most influential cars from major car manufacturers from around the world.
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
by Moudhy Al-rashid

Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time. What they left behind, in a vast region that once sat between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like the earliest depiction of a wheel and the first approximation of pi. But they also capture breathtakingly intimate, raw and relatable moments, like a dog's paw prints as it accidentally stepped into fresh clay, or the imprint of a child's teeth. In Between Two Rivers, historian Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid reveals what these ancient people chose to record about their lives, allowing us to brush hands with them millennia later.
Empty vessel : the Story of the Global Economy in one Ship.
by Ian Kumekawa

A jaw-dropping microhistory of the global economy over the last fifty years told through the many lives of a single ship.
America, América: A New History of the New World
by Greg Grandin

Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning historian Greg Gandin's sweeping history of North and South America examines five centuries of the continents' relationship to each other. "It's a monumental new view of the New World," raves Publishers Weekly. Try this next: El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America by Carrie Gibson.
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