Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Sisters in Science

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Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escape Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History by Olivia Campbell Park Row Books, 2024. 384...
Monday, September 30, 2024

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder

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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder  by David Grann  Doubleday, 2023. 329 pages. Nonfiction  In 1741, British warship the HMS...
Monday, April 22, 2024

Reading the Gaelic Landscape = Leughadh Aghaidh na Tire

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  Reading the Gaelic Landscape = Leughadh Aghaidh na Tire By John Murray Whittles Publishing, 2019. 264 pages. Nonfiction Reading the Gaeli...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

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The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush Scribner, 2023. 422 pages. Nonfiction When NASA sent astron...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Rizzio

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Rizzio By Denise Mina Pegasus Crime, 2021. 118 pages. Mystery On the evening of March 9th, 1566, David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood

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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood By Cari Beauchamp  University of California Press, 1998. 475 pa...

Movements and Moments

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Movements and Moments Edited by Sonja Eismann Drawn & Quarterly, 2022. 261 pages. Graphic Novel Indigenous Peoples all over the world ha...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

And We Rise

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And We Rise By Erica Martin Viking, 2022. 153 pages. Young Adult Nonfiction Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Joseph Smith and the Mormons

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Joseph Smith and the Mormons By Noah Van Sciver Abrams ComicArts, 2022. 455 pages. Graphic Novels In Joseph Smith and the Mormons , author a...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Notable Native People

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Notable Native People By Adrienne Keene Ten Speed Press, 2021. 143 pages. Young Adult Nonfiction An accessible and educational illustrated b...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe  Harper, 2021. 317 pages. Nonfiction/Biography Wh...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Caste

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Random House, 2020. 476 pages. Nonfiction Beyond race, class, or other factors, th...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

The Rose Code

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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn William Morrow, 2021, 624 pages. Historical Fiction 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very dif...