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I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka.
The New York Times bestselling true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever.
Nazi Hunters-How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb.
Recounts how, sixteen years after the end of World War II, a team of undercover Israeli agents captured the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, in a remote area of Argentina and brought him to trial in Israel for crimes committed during the Holocaust. Watch Trailer!
Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin.
An account of how counterfeiter Benjamin Boyd's gang stole the body of Abraham Lincoln and demanded Boyd's release from jail and two hundred thousand dollars as ransom and the efforts of the Secret Service to recover the remains.
Courage Has No Color : The True Story of the Triple Nickles : America's First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Stone.
World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front, discrimination against African Americans plays out as much on Main Street as in the military. Tanya Lee Stone examines the little-known history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought in an attack on the American West by the Japanese.
Trapped : How the World Rescued 33 Miners From 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert by Marc Aronson.
In early August 2010, the unthinkable happened when a mine collapsed in Copiano, Chile, trapping 33 miners 2,000 feet below the surface. For sixty-nine days they lived on meager resources with increasingly poor air quality. When they were finally rescued, the world watched with rapt attention and rejoiced in the amazing spirit and determination of the miners. What could have been a terrible tragedy became an amazing story of survival.
Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis by Pete Nelson.
Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the Navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight fifty-five years later. Watch Trailer!
Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food by Eric Schlosser.
A look at fast food, what's in it, how it's made, and what it does to our bodies. Watch Trailer!
They Called Themselves the KKK by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
Documents the history and origin of the Ku Klux Klan from its beginning in Pulaski, Tennessee, and provides personal accounts, congressional documents, diaries, and more. Watch Trailer
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand.
A biography of Olympic runner and World War II bombardier, Louis Zamperini, who had been rambunctious in childhood before succeeding in track and eventually serving in the military, which led to a trial in which he was forced to find a way to survive in the open ocean after being shot down. Watch Movie Trailer!
Discovering Wes Moore by Wes Moore.
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths. Watch Trailer!
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