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• Harriet Tubman

  the Road to Freedom

  Clinton, Catherine, 1952-

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  A woman to admire!

• The Big Burn

  Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America

  Egan, Timothy

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  Lessons for forest management and a fasinating history of the formation of the National Forest Service

• The Great Influenza

  the Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

  Barry, John M., 1947-

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  So much we could have learned -

• The Warmth of Other Suns

  the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

  Wilkerson, Isabel

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  The story of the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South in hopes of a better life northern and western cities. Did they find it?

• The Worst Hard Time

  the Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

  Egan, Timothy

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  A story we all need to hear and a lesson to be learned on how to treat mother nature.

• Symphony for the City of the Dead

  Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

  Anderson, M. T.,

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  For a look at other countries, and the dangers of totalitarian rule.

• The Splendid and the Vile

  a Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

  Larson, Erik, 1954-

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  How close Britain came to losing WWII is chilling.

• What It Is Like to Go to War

  Marlantes, Karl

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  What is it like to actually be in frontline situation? Combat veteran Karl Marlantes will take you there.

• The Distance Between Us

  a Memoir

  Grande, Reyna

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  Why do so many leave South American countries to travel to "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side), and what is the cost?