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History and Current Events May 2026 |
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The Great Museum of the Sea: A Human History of Shipwrecks
by James P. Delgado
In The Great Museum of the Sea, archaeologist, museum director, television host, journalist, and award-winning author James Delgado takes the reader on a personal tour of the world of shipwrecks, including many of the more than one hundred lost ships he has personally discovered, investigated, excavated and shared in print and on screen. Delgado explains why people care about shipwrecks--and why we have incorporated the concept of a shipwreck, and shipwrecks themselves, into our religions and cultures since the earliest civilizations.
This is available in our Adult Nonfiction collection.
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No One's Coming: The Rogue Heroes Our Government Turns to When There's Nowhere Else to Turn
by Kevin Hazzard
From the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history. July 2014. Two American medical volunteers who joined the fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world history have gotten infected. Bringing them home might cause an outbreak of Ebola here in the US. In fact, the only thing anyone can agree on is that there's just one group of people resourceful enough (or crazy enough) to pull this off. Phoenix Air, an eccentric band of engineers, pilots, and doctors with a reputation for doing things nobody else could, would become a lifeline to the world.
This is available in our Adult Nonfiction collection.
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Forgotten: How One Man Unlocked the Modern World
by Jaime Dávila
In Forgotten, Jaime Dávila uncovers the astonishing true story of Cornelis Corneliszoon, a 16th-century Dutch tinkerer whose simple invention - the wind-powered sawmill - unleashed a chain reaction that built the modern world. A rigorous, revelatory, and unflinchingly subversive challenge to our understanding of how the modern world was built, and a long-overdue correction of a historical injustice.
This is available as an eAudiobook on Hoopla.
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The Tattooed Hills: Journeys to Chalk Figures
by Jon Woolcott
A journey through Britain's chalklands, uncovering the stories, symbolism, and shifting meanings of the mysterious figures carved into its hills. Part travelogue, part cultural history, Woolcott examines how these figures--sometimes ancient, sometimes surprisingly recent--reflect the nation's collective imagination, and how their interpretations have changed over time.
This is available as an eBook on Hoopla.
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To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right
by Christopher Mathias
Demonized as "extremist" by conservatives and liberals alike, "antifa" became a bogeyman during Donald Trump's first term. But few Americans understood the dangerous work antifa was doing to disrupt and unmask a new generation of white supremacists or listened when antifa sounded the alarm about these white supremacists taking positions of power. To Catch a Fascist follows different factions of antifascists as they work to unmask hateful extremists before they commit devastating acts of violence. It paints a vivid picture of the stakes in this ongoing, often unseen war between opposite ends of the political spectrum.
This is available in our Adult Nonfiction collection.
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The Chosen and the Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States
by David J. Silverman
A sweeping chronicle placing race at the center of Native American U.S. history, from the award-winning author of This Land Is Their Land. At the start of colonization, Europeans didn’t see themselves as “White,” nor did Native Americans call themselves “Indians.” But as violent conflict spread over generations, racial identities hardened. Euro-Americans came to see themselves as superior, destined to spread Christian civilization, claiming Native people were doomed to vanish. In response, Native communities asserted that the Great Spirit had made Indians and Whites separately, and that America was meant for Indians alone.
This is available in our Adult Nonfiction collection.
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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
by Laura Spinney
Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history's most unlikely journeys. All four languages--along with hundreds of others, from French and Gaelic, to Persian and Polish--trace their origins to an ancient tongue which we call Proto-Indo-European, born between Europe and Asia, fragmenting as it spread east and west. Journalist Laura Spinney retraces the Indo-European odyssey across continents and millennia, along with the ancient peoples who carried these languages far and wide.
This is available in our Adult Nonfiction collection.
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Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution
by Jonathan Turley
On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, law professor, legal analyst, and bestselling author of The Indispensable Right explores how the unique origins of American democracy set it apart from other revolutions, whether it can survive and thrive in the 21st century, and how the unfinished story of the revolution will play out in a rapidly changing world.
This is available in our Adult Nonfiction collection.
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