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• Rise to Rebellion

  Shaara, Jeff, 1952-

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  This telling of the American Revolutionary War draws directly from historical speeches and diaries and brings dusty names to vibrant life. Both Jeff and his father Michael Shaara have written a terrific variety of war novels, and this is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Algiers Motel Incident

  Hersey, John, 1914-

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  Written in a totally new style, Hersey captures the frantic and overwhelming feeling of the events that led up to the 1967 Rebellion in Detroit.

• Sea of Poppies

  Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-

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  Sea of Poppies is the first in a trilogy about the onset of the Opium Wars between China and Great Britain, triggered by the Chinese government's efforts to enforce its ban on opium. Told through the voices of a Bengali widow, a French…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ribbons of Scarlet

  a Novel of the French Revolution's Women

  Quinn, Kate,

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  A collaborative novel by six authors, this book moves in chronological order through the stories of six different characters during the French Revolution. Ambitious, compelling, and brutal – Not for the squeamish.

• Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

  a Novel

  Yapa, Sunil,

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  A compelling fictional account of a young biracial man swept up in the activism and protests around the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) conference in Seattle.

• The Feast of the Goat

  A Novel

  Mario Vargas Llosa

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  A realistic and unsettling novel about the overthrow and aftermath of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, an army officer who seized power in the Dominican Republic in 1930 and ruled it as a dictator until his death.

• Empire of the Summer Moon

  Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

  Gwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.), 1953-

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  A gripping nonfiction account of Quanah Parker, the son of a Comanche chief and a white woman, who was abducted by and then fought for the Comanche during the 40-year battle between the Comanches and white settlers for control of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood in the Water

  The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

  Thompson, Heather Ann

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  A blow-by-blow dramatic retelling of the Attica prison uprising in 1971 when, drawing strength from the civil rights activism of the era, the New York State prisoners fought to improve their living conditions.

• Persepolis

  Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-

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  A graphic memoir of the author’s childhood in Tehran, where she witnessed the overthrow of the Shah, the Islamic fundamentalist rise to power, and the war with Iraq.

• The Water Outlaws

  Huang, S. L.,

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  A riotous retelling of the Water Margin, a Chinese classic based on the exploits of the outlaw Song Jiang and his 108 companions who rebelled against the Song dynasty. Though the story is described as genderbent, there were in fact real…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Dreamed of Empires

  Enrigue, Alvaro, 1969-

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  A short, trippy, fantastical account of when the emperor Moctezuma hosted conquistador Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan - today's Mexico City.

• The Women's March

  a Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

  Chiaverini, Jennifer,

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  A fictionalized account of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Alice Paul, and Maud Morgan in the days leading up to the real Women’s March for suffrage in 1913.

• The Cold Millions

  a Novel

  Walter, Jess, 1965-

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  A reconstruction of the free speech riots of 1909-1910 in Spokane, Washington, told through the story of two train-hopping brothers, with many cameos by real historic figures.

• Rednecks

  Brown, Taylor, 1982-

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  Based on the real-life Battle of Blair Mountain, when 10,000 West Virginia coal miners rose up against mine owners, state militia, and the United States government in the largest labor action in American history.