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Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: Fiction, HistoryAuthor: Christine WellsGenres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, World War IIPublisher: William Morrow PaperbacksPublished: 6/8/2021Set in the thick of the Paris Resistance movement during WWII, this exciting novel tells of the deep involvement of Catherine Dior and two young women Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Non-FictionAuthor: Siân EvansGenres: History, Nonfiction (Adult), TravelPublisher: St. Martin’s PressPublished: 8/10/2021In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Si�n Evans’s Maiden Voyages explores how women’s lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: Fiction, HistoryAuthor: Jane ThynneGenres: 1938, Espionage, Fiction, General Fiction (Adult), Historical Fiction, SuspenseSeries: Clara VinePublisher: Ballantine BooksPublished: 9/15/2015August, 1938. Paris is a city living on its nerves and the threat of war hangs heavy as a distant thunderstorm on Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: Fiction, HistoryAuthors: Fiona Davis, M.J. RoseGenres: 1915, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, Suffrage, Women’s RightsPublisher: Henry Holt & CompanyPublished: 10/27/2020A collection of short stories from a chorus of bestselling writers all set on the same day, October 23, 1915, in which Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Memoir, Non-FictionAuthor: Anne SebbaGenres: Biographies, Espionage, History, Memoirs, NonfictionPublisher: St. Martin’s PressPublished: 6/8/2021New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba’s moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Non-FictionAuthor: Jim FreemanGenres: Civil Rights, Nonfiction, Politics, RacismPublisher: ILR PressPublished: 4/15/2021More than fifty years after the Civil Right Movement, there are still glaring racial inequities all across the US. In Rich Thanks to Racism, one of the country’s Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Non-FictionAuthor: Lynn M. HudsonGenres: History, Multicultural, Nonfiction, Politics, RacismPublisher: University of Illinois PressPublished: 9/14/2020African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant put it, “The Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Non-FictionAuthor: Anthea ButlerGenres: History, Nonfiction (Adult), Politics, Racism, ReligionPublisher: University of North Carolina PressPublished: 3/22/2021The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: Fiction, HistoryAuthor: Megan Mayhew BergmanGenre: General Fiction (Adult)Publisher: ScribnerPublished: 1/6/2015From “a top-notch emerging writer with a crisp and often poetic voice and wily, intelligent humor” (The Boston Globe): a collection of stories that explores the lives of talented, gutsy Read more
Social MediaFacebookTwitter Categories: History, Non-Fiction, ReferenceAuthor: Mark TushnetGenres: History, Judicial Branch, Law, Non-Fiction, PoliticsPublisher: Yale University PressPublished: 07/14/2020How the Supreme Court’s move to the right has distorted both logic and the Constitution The Supreme Court has never simply evaluated laws and arguments Read more