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FEATURED TITLES
by Josh Neufeld
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is a masterful portrait of a city under siege. Cartoonist Josh Neufeld depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina.
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by Firoozeh Dumas
In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father’s glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since.
Funny in...
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by Wangari Maathai
In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa... Read more >
Essential Histories
by Osprey Publishing
Using the Essential Histories for
a deeper examination of
key wars.
Essential Histories, published by Osprey Publishing, is
a series
of books on the history of war. These books can be used in
courses on military history or,
as would be more typical in a
high
school classroom, they can supplement discussions and activities in
survey courses in United States or world history classes...Read
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