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  Hidden in Plain Sight - A Family...

  Julie Brill

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  In quiet, lovely prose, Julie Brill has delivered a powerful reminder of why our stories—personal, familial, historical—are so crucial. A moving excavation of a family story. –Menachem Kaiser, author of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure 
  Discover a powerful, untold chapter of Holocaust history and a daughter’s enduring quest to know the story that began a generation before her birth. From childhood, Julie Brill struggled to understand how her father survived as a young Jewish boy in Belgrade, where Nazis murdered 90 percent of the Jewish population without gas chambers or cattle cars. Through exacting research, a bit of luck, and three emotional trips to Serbia, she pieces together her family’s lost past, unearths secrets, and returns to her father a small part of what the Nazis stole: his own family history.

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  In Search of Mary Seacole - The...

  Helen Rappaport

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  From New York Times bestselling author Helen Rappaport comes a superb and revealing biography of Mary Seacole that is testament to her remarkable achievements and corrective to the myths that have grown around her. 
  Raised in Jamaica, Mary Seacole first came to England in the 1850s after working in Panama. She wanted to volunteer as a nurse and aide during the Crimean War. When her services were rejected, she financed her own expedition to Balaclava, where her reputation for her nursing—and for her compassion—became almost legendary. 
  Popularly known as “Mother Seacole,” she was the most famous Black celebrity of her generation—an extraordinary achievement in Victorian Britain. She regularly mixed with illustrious royal and military patrons, and they, along with grateful war veterans, helped her recover financially when she faced bankruptcy. However, after her death in 1881, she was largely forgotten. 
  More recently, her profile has been revived and her reputation lionized, with a statue of her standing outside St. Thomas’s Hospital in London and her portrait—rediscovered by the author—now on display in the National Portrait Gallery. 
  This book is the fruit of almost twenty years of research and reveals the truth about Seacole’s personal life, her “rivalry” with Florence Nightingale, and other misconceptions. 
  Vivid and moving, In Search of Mary Seacole shows that reality is often more remarkable and more dramatic than the legend.

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  25+ The World's Greatest Short...

  Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe,...

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  Contents:
  
  - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug
  - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener
  - Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp
  - Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich  
  - Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
  - Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
  - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper
  - Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog
  - D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer
  - James Joyce. Araby
  - Ivan Turgenev. First Love
  - Nikolay Gogol. The Mantle
  -  Mikhail Bulgakov. The Embroidered Towel
  - Ivan Bunin. The Gentleman from San Francisco
  - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Carmilla
  - O.Henry. The Gift of the Magi
  - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  - Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  - H.G. Wells. The Magic Shop
  - W.W. Jacobs. The Monkey's Paw
  - Arthur Conan Doyle. His Last Bow
  - Henry James. Daisy Miller
  - H.P. Lovecraft. The Call of Cthulhu
  - Alexsandr Pushkin. The Queen of Spades
  - G.K. Chesterton. The Blue Cross

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  Broken Promises - Black Women...

  Davis Truman

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  The Civil War is often remembered as a fight for freedom and union. Still, for countless Black women, it was also a time of unimaginable danger, betrayal, and silence. Broken Promises uncovers the forgotten stories of women whose voices were stifled, whose pain was dismissed, and whose search for justice was denied. 
  Through vivid case histories and gripping narrative, this book reveals how the courts, the army, and even the nation itself consistently failed to protect Black women from sexual violence. While white womanhood was fiercely guarded, Black women were left exposed, forced to endure both the brutality of assault and the cruelty of disbelief. 
  More than a history of crimes left unpunished, Broken Promises is a powerful exploration of resilience, truth, and the limits of justice in America’s most defining conflict. It asks difficult questions about whose lives were valued, whose suffering was ignored, and what freedom truly meant for the women at the center of it all. 
  Bold, unflinching, and deeply human, this book gives voice to the women history tried to erase, and forces us to confront the promises of justice that were never kept.

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  The World As We Knew It -...

  Tajja Isen, Amy Brady

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  Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives 
   
   
   
  In this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting consequences of this global threat. 
   
   
    
  In the opening essay, National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet mourns the end of the Saguaro cacti in her Arizona backyard due to drought. Later, Omar El Akkad contemplates how the rise of temperatures in the Middle East is destroying his home and the wellspring of his art. Gabrielle Bellot reflects on how a bizarre lionfish invasion devastated the coral reef near her home in the Caribbean—a precursor to even stranger events to come. Traveling through Nebraska, Terese Svoboda witnesses cougars running across highways and showing up in kindergartens. 
   
   
    
  As the stories unfold—from Antarctica to Australia, New Hampshire to New York—an intimate portrait of a climate-changed world emerges, captured by writers whose lives jostle against incongruous memories of familiar places that have been transformed in startling ways.

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  Teachers - The Ones I Can’t Forget

  Martin Fletcher

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  Teachers are the people Martin Fletcher met throughout his work as a news correspondent, often on the worst day of their lives. He watched as they picked up the pieces following personal tragedy and discovered the invaluable lesson of carrying on, no matter the circumstances.  Through intimate profiles, Martin Fletcher's Teachers details the struggles of everyday people in extraordinary circumstances—war, revolution, natural disasters and yes, life. Fletcher's writing is uplifting as he examines the truth of resilience despite hardship. These are the people he sought out in his international reporting, detailing their woes while celebrating their will to survive and recover.  Teachers offers a unique take on reporting, as it features a traveling photo exhibit that Fletcher created to accompany the book. Each chapter is paired with an extraordinary digital montage to illustrate the stories taken directly from his reporting from NBC news programs. At a time when news coverage is often dismissed as fake or biased, Teachers is a welcome reminder of the integrity, devotion and empathy that goes into true reporting of the world. As Tom Brokaw wrote, "Fletcher has a calling."

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