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The fever of 1721: the epidemic that revolutionized medicine and American politics
Par Stephen Coss. 2016
In 1721, Boston faced the worst smallpox epidemic in its history. Preacher Cotton Mather persuaded Doctor Zabdiel Boylston to try…
implanting smallpox into healthy patients, a procedure that led to the discovery of the benefits of inoculation and vaccination. At the time, however, public outrage forced the doctor into hiding. 2016Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
Par Margot Lee Shetterly. 2016
Daughter of a NASA engineer profiles the black women who worked for NASA, and its predecessor NACA, as human computers.…
Discusses their lives prior to joining NACA/NASA, the challenges they faced due to gender and race discrimination, and their impact on the space program. Basis for the 2016 movie. 2016Area 51: an uncensored history of America's top secret military base
Par Annie Jacobsen. 2012
Journalist examines the history of Area Fifty-one, a secret military facility in the Nevada desert. Discusses the importance of the…
Atomic Energy Commission's initial control of the site and the public's fascination with its mysteries. Reveals details of highly classified "black ops" projects carried out there. Bestseller. 2011Recounts the accomplishments of nine working-class athletes from the University of Washington who beat elite teams at home and abroad…
and won the gold medal for rowing at the 1936 Nazi-orchestrated Berlin Olympics. 2013Spoken from the heart
Par Laura Welch Bush. 2010
Former first lady's memoirs describe growing up in Texas and discuss major life events, including a tragic accident in high…
school, her marriage to George, and the birth of their twin daughters. Highlights crises during her husband's administration, focusing on the September 2001 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina. 2010Grandma Gatewood's walk: the inspiring story of the woman who saved the Appalachian Trail
Par Ben Montgomery. 2014
Biography of Emma Gatewood (1887-1973), who left her family in Ohio in May 1955, saying only that she was going…
for a walk. Four months later she completed a solo hike of the Appalachian Trail, from south to north--the first woman to do so. Details her trip and subsequent celebrity. 2014Lafayette in the somewhat United States
Par Sarah Vowell. 2015
Author of Assassination Vacation (DB 61591) and Unfamiliar Fishes (DB 73201) provides a humorous account of Revolutionary War hero Marquis…
de Lafayette and his return to America in 1824. Examines the impact Lafayette had on a young America, his popularity, and his ongoing relationships with instrumental American leaders of the time. Bestseller. 2015Poetry columnist for the New York Times Book Review analyzes Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." Examines the life of…
Frost, the literary meaning of the poem, interpretations of the central question, and the point of view of the narrator. 2015The author of The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI (DB 55193) interviews Mark Sullivan, the director of the…
Secret Service, and scores of other agents. Provides anecdotes about various US presidents, from John Kennedy to Barack Obama, and their peccadilloes. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2009Trials of the earth: the true story of a pioneer woman
Par Mary Hamilton. 2016
An account by Mary Mann Hamilton (1866-1936) of her life as a pioneer in the American South. She describes facing…
natural disasters, dangerous wildlife, managing a boardinghouse for settlers in Arkansas, and running a logging camp in Mississippi, all while caring for her family. Some strong language. 1992Examines the decline of popular mobilizations against privilege, wealth, and power in the United States since the Gilded Age. Fraser…
argues that these early cornerstones of American democracy have given way to self-serving corporate fables of freedom and the politics of fear. Some violence and some strong language. 2015Tommy: the gun that changed America
Par Karen Blumenthal. 2015
Overview of the development and history of John Taliaferro Thompson's lightweight, fast-firing weapon. The Tommy gun was designed for the…
military, but it instead became the weapon of choice for criminals, gangsters, and bootleggers. Some violence. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2015The other serious: essays for the new American generation
Par Christy Wampole. 2015
Collection of fourteen essays by American-born French and Italian professor explores American culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first…
centuries. Explores cultivated lifestyles such as "hipsterism," communication between generations, regional influences on expression such as "southern niceness," and the ways feminism is expressed in the movie Labyrinth, among other subjects. 2015Villains, scoundrels, and rogues: incredible true tales of mischief and mayhem
Par Paul Martin, Paul Martín, Paul D Martin. 2014
Thirty portraits of little-known scoundrels throughout history whose misdeeds range from unspeakable acts of evil to unscrupulous behavior. Includes Ed…
Gein, the notorious Wisconsin serial killer who was the inspiration for Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 2014O my America!: six women and their second acts in a new world
Par Sara Wheeler. 2013
Profiles of six women exploring life in mid-1800s America. Examines writer Fanny Trollope (1779-1863), actress Fanny Kemble (1809-1893), sociologist Harriet…
Martineau (1802-1876), homesteader Rebecca Burland (1793-1872), traveler Isabella Bird (1831-1904), and novelist Catherine Hubback (1818-1877). Discusses challenges they faced and successes they enjoyed. 2013The interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald inside the Soviet Union
Par Peter Savodnik. 2013
Journalist investigates the time Lee Harvey Oswald (1939-1963) spent in Russia. Describes the factors that led him to defect, the…
files the KGB kept on him, and his inability to fit into his adopted homeland because of language and cultural differences. 2013Stonewall: breaking out in the fight for gay rights
Par Ann Bausum. 2015
Bausum recounts the events of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, which started in response to the police…
raid of a gay bar. She describes the decades-long struggle for gay rights in the United States. For senior high and older readers. 2015The secret rescue: an untold story of American nurses and medics behind Nazi lines
Par Cate Lineberry. 2013
Details the previously untold true story of twenty-six Army Air Force flight nurses and medics who crash-landed in Albania in…
November 1943. Met by battle-hardened partisans, the group wandered for months over rugged terrain and, with the help of villagers, evaded capture by the Nazis. Violence. 2013Historian David Sehat examines how individuals from all political walks turn to the Founding Fathers to defend and determine political…
policy. He discusses his concerns with using potentially outdated context for contemporary issues and points out how divided the Fathers were, even amongst themselves, on many issues. 2015George Washington's secret six: the spy ring that saved the American Revolution
Par Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger. 2013
Relays the exploits of the New York-based Culper Spy Ring, five men and one woman whose activities enabled General George…
Washington to defeat the British during the Revolutionary War. Profiles the group's leader, Quaker merchant Robert Townsend, and describes the unmasking of traitor Benedict Arnold. Bestseller. 2013