Category: History

October 21, 2015

Gold by Matthew Hart ** (of 4)

Matthew Hart purports to answer all your questions about gold. Why does it have value? How is it mined? What is the historical significance of gold?...

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August 27, 2015

The Son by Philipp Meyer **** (of 4)

This history of Texas is told through the lives of four generations of the McCullough family. Eli, the patriarch, is captured by Comanches as an...

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June 14, 2015

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown **** (of 4)

On the face of it an uplifting story of a group of eight hayseeds from Washington state who come together to become the world’s best rowing...

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June 4, 2015

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis *** (of 4)

This first novel captures the bleak experience of Hattie, the black mother of a dozen kids, who has come north as part of The Great...

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June 4, 2015

The Nazis Next Door by Eric Lichtblau (no rating)

Even before WW II came to a close the United States was already preparing to admit Nazis into the country. The horror, of course, is...

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May 13, 2015

Paper Love by Sarah Wildman **** (of 4)

Sarah Waldman’s grandfather escaped the Nazi Aunchshloss in Austria by the skin of his teeth. He settled in America, opened a successful medical practice, and...

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April 24, 2015

March: Books 1 and 2 by John Lewis **** (of 4)

These graphical biographies cover the early years of John Lewis, now a congressman, but formerly a preacher and activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Book one...

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April 14, 2015

Mary Coin by Marissa Walter *** (of 4)

On the surface this is a fictionalized account of two women who made one another famous during The Great Depression: Dorothea Lange, a government employed...

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March 22, 2015

The Property by Rutu Modan **** (of 4)

Modan is part of the first generation of Israeli graphic novelists. In The Property, an elderly Israeli grandmother returns to Poland with her granddaughter to...

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March 22, 2015

Swim by Lynn Sher ** (of 4)

Includes everything you ever wanted to know about swimming: Greek mythology; the history of swimsuits and swimming pools; the beauty of open water swimming and...

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