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The past is present and future. Nonfiction @ ACL

To understand the present and perhaps influence the future, learn about the past!

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  • A woman to admire!
    Book, 2004New York : Little, Brown, c2004 — B TUBMAN,H
  • The Big Burn

    Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America

    Egan, Timothy
    Lessons for forest management and a fasinating history of the formation of the National Forest Service
    Book, 2009Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009 — 973.911 EGAN
  • The Great Influenza

    the Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

    Barry, John M., 1947-
    So much we could have learned -
    Book, 2018New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2018 — 614.518 BARRY
  • The Warmth of Other Suns

    the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    Wilkerson, Isabel
    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?
    Book, 2010New York : Random House, c2010 — 304.80973 WILKERSON
  • The Worst Hard Time

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

    Egan, Timothy
    A story we all need to hear and a lesson to be learned on how to treat mother nature.
    Book, 2006Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006 — 978.032 EGAN
  • Symphony for the City of the Dead

    Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

    Anderson, M. T.,
    For a look at other countries, and the dangers of totalitarian rule.
    Book, 2015Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015 — B SHOSTAKOVICH,D
  • The Splendid and the Vile

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

    Larson, Erik, 1954-
    How close Britain came to losing WWII is chilling.
    Book, 2020New York : Crown, [2020] — B CHURCHILL,W
  • What is it like to actually be in frontline situation? Combat veteran Karl Marlantes will take you there.
    Book, 2011New York : Atlantic Monthly Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2011 — 959.70434 MARLANTES
  • Why do so many leave South American countries to travel to "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side), and what is the cost?
    Book, 2012New York : Atria Books, 2012 — B GRANDE,R