Category: NonFiction
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EMPIRE of ICE AND STONE by BUDDY LEVY
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. This is the true story of two men. One a great leader and one not so great. With everything going on in the world stage in 1913, a wooden-hulled brigantine named Karlud departed Canada for […]
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THE FOREVER WITNESS by EDWARD HUMES
Pulitzer Prize Winner, Edward Humes, brings us a true crime story. How Genetic Genealogy Solved A Cold Case Double Murder. This is a true story of murder in the Pacific Northwest. When two young people leave Canada to run an errand in the U.S., they never return. Searches were extensive, but the evidence was sparse. […]
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Wild: The Life of Peter Beard by Graham Boynton
The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, adventurer, lover Graham Boynton’s Wild is the definitive biography of photographer Peter Beard, a larger-than-life icon who pushed the boundaries of art and scandalized international high society with his high-profile affairs. What an interesting life this man had. Descended from old money. His great-grandfather, James Hill founded the Great Northern Railway […]
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SKIRTS by KIMBERLY CHRISMAN-CAMPBELL
Skirts traces the shifting roles of women over the twentieth century through the era’s most iconic and influential dresses. The evolution of the skirt over pants took quite a bit longer than it should have in my opinion. Practicality should be first and foremost I think. And a lot of other women thought so too. And […]
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THE POPE AT WAR by DAVID I. KERTZER
Pulitzer Prize-winner David I. Kertzer brings us this magnificent work of the history of Pope Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler. Based on newly opened Vatican archives, a groundbreaking, explosive, and riveting book about Pope Pius XII and his actions during World War II, including how he responded to the Holocaust, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author […]
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UNDER JERUSALEM by ANDREW LAWLER
Under Jerusalem is a 150-year history of the ground just beneath one of the world’s holiest cities. This is the well-researched, and well-written history of Jerusalem. From the time it was not much of anything to a major religious center, fought over by three or more religions. We begin in 1863, when a Frenchman with […]
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CARE FREE BLACK GIRLS by ZEBA BLAY
This book is a look and a celebration of black women’s identity and impact on pop culture by HuffPost critic, Zeba Blay. Blay was the first person to give us the #carefreeblackgirls, in 2013 on Twitter. This is a series of essays that took me longer than normal to read. This isn’t my story and […]
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A Mudlark’s Treasures, London in Fragments by Ted Sandling
I read quite a bit of historical fiction set in London. Mudlarks are mentioned quite a bit so I knew it was a name for those treasure seekers along the Thames. Around the 18th and 19th centuries, there were young boys trying to make a living with the things they found along and in the […]
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VALCOUR-The 1776 Campaign That Saved The Cause of Liberty by JACK KELLY
The wild and suspenseful story of one of the most crucial and least known campaigns of the Revolutionary War when America’s scrappy navy took on the full might of Britain’s sea power. Valcour is about the people involved in the 1776 three-day battle of the fledgling American Colonies against the pesky Brits. In the summer […]
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THE VAGINA BIBLE by JEN GUNTER, MD
I was thrilled to get this one from Kensington Books! I spent the first 10 minutes laughing hysterically over that little quote at the top. In case you can’t see it, here it is. “Buy this book if you have a vagina or if you spend any time at all in reasonable proximity to one” […]
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