Category: America

December 7, 2025

1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin *** (of 4)

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Andrew Ross Sorkin’s approach to the Great Depression is to follow some great men, day by day in the year leading up to the crash....

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December 4, 2025

So Far Gone by Jess Walter **** (of 4)

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Rhys Kinnick, a cantankerous, retired, environmental journalist, fed up with the world, and especially his son-in-law, leaves society behind to live off the grid in...

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December 4, 2025

The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Sharp *** (of 4)

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What started after 9/11 as the U.S. War on Terror has declined into an interminable excuse for targeted killing, assassinations, and undercover attempts by the...

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October 11, 2025

Tru Biz by Sara Novic **** (of 4)

The scene is River Valley School for the Deaf just outside Cincinnati, Ohio. Charlie, a teenager with crappy cochlear implants and parents who prevented her...

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July 30, 2025

The Slip by Lucas Schaefer **** (of 4)

Nathaniel Rothstein, a high schooler in Newton, Massachusetts, beats up a student even dorkier than himself. His mother, beside herself, ships him off for the...

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June 2, 2025

Red Scare by Clay Risen *** (of 4)

Clay Risen's thorough recounting of the Red Scare, which began well before Joseph McCarthy's rise to infamy, makes clear that right wing opposition to progressive...

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May 1, 2025

Bomb by Steve Sheinkin *** (of 4)

A young adult award winning (Newberry Honor, Sibert Medal) account of the making of the world’s first nuclear bomb and attempts by the Russians to...

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March 18, 2025

A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko **** (of 4)

Kevin Fedarko, a native of the degraded coal mining towns near Pittsburgh, and his best friend, photographer, Pete McBride, walk the 750-mile length of the...

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March 18, 2025

Guide Me Home by Attica Locke *** (of 4)

In southeast Texas's Nacagdoches County, Texas Ranger Darren Matthews has problems big and small. As a Black Texas Ranger he is self-motivated to uphold the...

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February 4, 2025

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich **** (of 4)

In a small farming town in North Dakota, sugar beet farming is almost as much everybody's livelihood as keeping track of one's neighbor's business. Kismet,...

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