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A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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Until I Find You by Rachel Nolan Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
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Nolan, Rachel
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I Am on the Hit List by Rollo Romig I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India
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Romig, Rollo
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause by Benjamin Nathans To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
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Nathans, Benjamin
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I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
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Sante, Lucy
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Fi by Alexandra Fuller Fi: A Memoir of My Son
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Fuller, Alexandra
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Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
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The World She Edited by Amy Reading The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker
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John Lewis by David Greenberg John Lewis: A Life
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Greenberg, David
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Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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Plantation Goods by Seth Rockman Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
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Combee by Edda L. Fields-Black Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
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Black, Edda L. Fields
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Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
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The Romanovs by Robert K. Massie The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
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Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
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Liliana's Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
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King by Jonathan Eig King: A Life
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No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) by Jacqueline A. Jones No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
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Jones, Jacqueline A.
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Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras The Man Who Could Move Clouds
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Freedom’s Dominion by Jefferson R. Cowie Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
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Cowie, Jefferson R.
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His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
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Samuels, Robert
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Stay True by Hua Hsu Stay True
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G-Man by Beverly Gage G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
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Gage, Beverly
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Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
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Elliott, Andrea
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Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred Rembert Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
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Rembert, Winfred
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Cuba by Ada Ferrer Cuba: An American History
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Ferrer, Ada
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Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
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Eustace, Nicole
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The Family Roe by Joshua Prager The Family Roe: An American Story Prager, Joshua *
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