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History and Current Events July 2024
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| Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World by Caroline AlexanderJournalist and New York Times bestselling author Caroline Alexander (The Bounty) surveys the lesser-known aerial exploits of the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II in this fast-paced and dramatic account featuring diary entries and previously unseen records. Further reading: Burma '44: The Battle That Turned World War II in the East by James Holland. |
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Lytton : Climate Change, Colonialism and Life in the Centre of the Universe
by Peter Edwards
From bestselling true-crime author Peter Edwards and Governor General's Award-winning playwright Kevin Loring, two sons of Lytton, BC, the town that burned to the ground in 2021, comes a meditation on hometown―when hometown is gone.
Told from the shared perspective of an Indigenous playwright and the journalist son of a settler doctor who pushed back against the divisions that existed between populations, Lytton portrays all the warmth, humour and sincerity of small-town life. A colourful little town that burned to the ground could be every town’s warning if we don’t take seriously what this unique place has to teach us.
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| Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam HigginbothamJournalist Adam Higginbotham's evocative follow-up to his Carnegie Medal-winning Midnight in Chernobyl is a compelling and well-researched chronicle of how NASA's negligence and hubris led to the 1986 Challenger explosion. Try this next: Bringing Columbia Home: The Final Mission of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew by Michael D. Leinbach and Jonathan H. Ward. |
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Complicit : How our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men
by Reah Bravo
A thoroughly researched and deeply personal examination of how we unintentionally condone sexual misconduct and other workplace abuses.
With searing research and enlightening commentary, Bravo shines a light on what exactly makes professional misconduct and toxic work environments so pervasive and charts a path towards affecting real change.
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Systemic : how racism is making us sick
by Layal Liverpool
Sharing her journey to show how racism, woven into our societies as well as into medicine and science, is harmful to our health, a virologist, immunologist and science journalist reveals the fatal stereotypes that keep people of color undiagnosed, untreated and unsafe, and tells us what we can do about it.
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| Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of Obsessive Quest for El Dorado... by Keith ThomsonBestselling author Keith Thomson's (Born to Be Hanged) richly detailed latest chronicles English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh's failed attempts to locate the mythical city of El Dorado in the jungles of South America. For fans of: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Click HERE for the full list of this month's new books
Grand Forks & District Public Library 7342 5th Street Box 1539 Grand Forks, British Columbia V0H1H0 250-442-3944
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