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History and Current Events August 2026 |
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Recent Releases - History |
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| The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK... by Kaitlyn TiffanyThis compelling history details how three fearless American women became amateur detectives in the 1960s and '70s and antagonized the government to reveal the truth about John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s 1963 assassination. Painstakingly researched and engrossing, The Housewives Underground takes readers back to the turbulent 1960s and 1970s--a time when Americans' belief in their government was eroding--introducing readers to the so-called housewives who asked the first, hardest questions about one of the most shocking events in American history. |
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The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
by Eric Jay Dolin
The story of the American whaleship Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies dwindling, the eleven surviving crewmen face not only the miseries of shipwreck in unfamiliar territory but also the profound uncertainty of contact with the Indigenous people of the Micronesian archipelago of Palau, who within days approach the deserted men brandishing axes, clubs, and spears. In this gripping saga of cultural collision, tribal wars, and dashed hopes, award-winning historian Eric Jay Dolin vividly reconstructs the Mentor's doomed voyage, the years of perilous captivity, and the delicate negotiations and fraught naval rescue mission that followed.
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Recent Releases - Current Events
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| On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear by Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-MeyerPulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin and former White House senior advisor Ami Fields-Meyer expand on their The New Yorker essay "So You Want to Be a Dissident?" in this inspiring and accessible book featuring profiles of people throughout the globe who have resisted tyrannical governments. Meet a student from Hong Kong who risked everything for democracy. A mom in a working-class neighborhood of Caracas who broke with the political movement that raised her. Cairo twentysomethings who staged a gutsy stunt to help bring down a dictator. This is the story of how they did it despite the risks - and how you can do it, too. |
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The Crooked Places Made Straight: Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America
by Raphael G. Warnock
Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock is a transformational voice in Congress and the pastor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church, and for the semiquincentennial of America, he exhorts us to reach for the highest and noblest aspects of our national character. Senator Warnock argues that we suffer not from a paucity of resources but from a poverty of moral imagination. The Crooked Places Made Straight examines six crises at the center of American life: voting rights and voter suppression, gun violence, mass incarceration, the persistence of poverty, dark money in politics, and the climate emergency. For Senator Warnock, democracy is the political enactment of a spiritual idea. A vote is a kind of prayer.
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Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
by Maggie Haberman
Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from deep within the administration's most closely guarded rooms, Regime Change takes the reader inside the Situation Room and into the secret Oval Office deliberations that have launched a new war in the Middle East and seen Trump seal the border, surge National Guard troops into cities, and send immigration agents into deadly clashes with protestors. It is also the story of something American journalists are more accustomed to chronicling in distant capitals than in their own: a President who has fundamentally altered the nature of the office he holds--and, with it, how the rest of the world understands American power.
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