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The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd

Engaging and well-paced. While geared toward a general audience, this work is well-grounded in scholarly research and will likely appeal to many: the armchair historian and those with an interest in the golden age of piracy, colonial New York, and social and women’s histories.
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Original Sins

This is an exceptionally well-written and heartfelt memoir.

Coming Up for Air

Daley’s conversational style will appeal to a wide audience interested in sports and contemporary gay lives. Highly recommended.
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No Escape

An important, harrowing overview of the ongoing human rights crisis in Xinjiang, China.
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Magic Season: A Son’s Story

Libraries looking to increase their LGBTQ+ memoir collections will not want to miss this worthy entry.
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Conversations

An enjoyable series of insights into an artist’s creative process. For Reich fans and scholars of American musical composition.
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Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow

Even for non-skiers, this is an entertaining and eye-opening look at the history and economics of skiing and ski resorts in the United States.
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Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

A unique, entertaining resource to bolster culinary and women’s studies collections.

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Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby

This account makes the trial accessible and presents Ruby sympathetically, as a man victimized by lawyerly theatrics, a media hungry for a conviction, and a nation grieving over the loss of Kennedy. The book will fascinate nonfiction courtroom drama readers and JFK assassination buffs still looking for a conspiracy link between Oswald and Ruby.

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