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Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
by Lucy Adlington
The author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust whose lives were unknowingly intertwined by their shared possession of a red sweater. In this absorbing and deeply moving account, the award-winning clothes historian documents their stories, knitting together the experiences that fragmented their families and their lives.
This is available in our Adult Nonfiction collection.
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Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People
by Dalai Lama XIV (Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho)
The Dalai Lama has had to contend with the People’s Republic of China his entire life. He was sixteen years old when Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, only nineteen when he had his first meeting with Chairman Mao in Beijing, and twenty-five when he was forced to escape to India and became a leader in exile. In this unique book offering personal, spiritual, and historical reflections, His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his struggle with China to save Tibet and its people for nearly seventy-five years.
This is available in our Adult Nonfiction collection.
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The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
by Charlie English
Former Guardian journalist Charlie English evocatively chronicles the CIA's successful efforts to weaken Soviet censorship and control by distributing subversive and pro-democracy literature to Eastern Europe in the 1980s. Try this next: The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui.
This is available in our Adult Nonfiction collection and as an eAudiobook.
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Seven Social Movements that Changed America
by Linda Gordon
Expanding her highly praised book The Second Coming of the KKK, this brilliantly conceived and provocative work from an award-winning historian examines how seven twentieth-century social movements transformed America, from Cleveland's Phillis Wheatley House to the Combahee River Collective.
This is available in our Adult Nonfiction collection.
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The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America
by Philip Kadish
Fake news, outright political lies, a shamelessly partisan press, and the collapse of truth, civility, and shared facts, Philip Kadish argues, are nothing new. In a book that brilliantly puts our current era into historical context, The Great White Hoax uncovers a centuries-long tradition of white supremacist hoaxes, perpetrated on the American public by a succession of political hucksters and opportunists, all of them willfully using racial frauds as tools for political and social advantage.
This is available in our Adult Nonfiction collection.
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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.
This is available in our Adult Nonfiction collection.
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