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History and Current Events June 2025 |
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| The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 by Rick AtkinsonFollowing The British are coming: the war for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, this 2nd well-researched volume of Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson's Revolution Trilogy utilizes dozens of maps and full-color illustrations to chronicle key events from the middle years of the American Revolution, covering the years 1777-1780. |
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The Fairbanks Four : murder, injustice, and the birth of a movement
by Brian O'Donoghue
The Central Park Five meets Killers of the Flower Moon in The Fairbanks Four, the true but untold story of four young indigenous men in Fairbanks, Alaska who were wrongly convicted of murdering a white teenager, and the journalist determined to rally the community and undo the damage done by a broken justice system.
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The Houdini Club : the epic journey and daring escapes of the first Army Rangers of WWII
by Mir Bahmanyar
This thrilling, personality-driven account of the first United States Army Ranger battalions follows an extraordinary band of American soldiers from their rugged Ranger training to their battles in North Africa, France, Sicily, and mainland Italy, and (for some) finally back to American shores. Drawing upon unprecedented historical research, military-service expertise, exclusive interviews, and personal correspondence with original Greatest Generation Army Rangers, The Houdini Club is an uncensored workof military history, encapsulating both the history and personal drama of World War II Special Forces warfare.
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The art spy : the extraordinary untold tale of WWII resistance hero Rose Valland
by Michelle Young
A saga set in Paris during World War II uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the world's most treasured masterpieces. While Hitler was amassing stolen art for his future Führermuseum, Valland, his undercover adversary, Rose Valland, secretly worked to stop him. At every stage of World War II, Valland was front and center. She came face to face with Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, passed crucial information to the Resistance network, put herself deliberately in harm's way to protect the museum and her staff, and faced death during the last hours of Liberation Day.
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Fatherhood : a history of love and power
by Augustine Sedgewick
A bold and original history of fatherhood, exploring its invention and transformation from the Bronze Age to the present through a collective portrait of emblematic fathers who have helped to define how the world should be ruled and what it means to be a man.
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Four red sweaters : powerful true stories of women and the Holocaust
by Lucy Adlington
The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways. Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana Zumerkorn, and Regina Feldman all faced the Holocaust in different ways. While they did not know each other-in fact had never met-each had a red sweater that would play a major part in their lives.
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Murderland : crime and bloodlust in the time of serial killers
by Caroline Fraser
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic landscape of deadly industrial violence.
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My beautiful sisters : a memoir of courage, hope, and the Afghan women's soccer team
by Khalida Popal
In August 2021, Kabul fell under the control of the Taliban. For Khalida Popal, it signaled the beginning of the most important battle of her extraordinary young life--to get female soccer players out of a city where they faced threat of execution simply for playing sports.
Khalida first began playing soccer in a refugee camp in Pakistan after her parents fled Taliban rule. Returning to Afghanistan, she fell deeper in love with the sport. As co-founder and captain of the Afghan women's team, Khalida began using sports to empower young women, and was subjected to intensifying death threats in return. Hounded out of her own country, from her new home in Denmark, she watched Kabul fall and immediately knew the risk to the players still there. Assembling a small but mighty network of international allies, she began evacuating women whose lives were at risk simply for loving the sport she had done so much to promote. Her teammates. Her sisters.
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