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Book Notes 12/26/2023

Posted on December 26, 2023 at 11:10 AM by Genesis Gaule

Blog Book Notes

12/26/23

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A Fever in the Heartland

The Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them
by Timothy Egan

Call Number: 322.4209 EGAN

This book marries a propulsive drama to a powerful and page-turning reckoning with one of the darkest threads in American history.


All the Little Bird-Hearts

by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

Call Number: LLOYD-BARLOW

Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life. She does things differently from other people, but mostly it works. On her "quiet days" she must eat only white foods. For social situations, she has her etiquette hand book, and for solace her beloved treasury of Sicilian folklore. But the one thing very much out of her control is Dolly - beautiful, headstrong Dolly who is on the cusp of leaving home.


We May Dominate the World

Ambition, anxiety, and the rise of the American Colossus
by Sean A. Mirski

Call Number: 341.58 MIRSKI

Today, as China makes its own run at regional hegemony and nations like Russia and Iran grow more menacing, Mirski’s fresh look at the rise of the American colossus offers indispensable lessons for how to meet the challenges of our own century.


The Peasant King

by Tessa Afshar

Call Number: Large Print AFSHAR

When her mother, the Persian king’s famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territory to rescue her. But infiltrating their adversary’s lands proves easier than escaping them. Fleeing through dangerous mountain passes, their survival depends on the skills of a stranger they free from prison: a mysterious prince named Asher.


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