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History and Current Events August 2021
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| An Atlas of Extinct Countries by Gideon DefoeWhat's inside: An irreverent survey of 48 nations that no longer exist, accompanied by illustrated maps and cheeky footnotes.
Featuring: The Great Republic of Rough and Ready, the California town that seceded from the Union in 1850; an extraterritorial maternity ward in Canada, where Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was born in 1943.
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| The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID by Lawrence WrightWhat it is: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright's well-researched and comprehensive chronicle of the first year of COVID-19.
Read it for: A sobering account of how bureaucratic red tape, government malfeasance, and misinformation spurred the disease's spread, featuring interviews with scientists and public health experts.
Did you know? In May 2020, Wright published the eerily prescient pandemic thriller The End of October. |
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