True+History

This is a compelling story of how state spies tried to block voting rights for African Americans during the Civil Rights era. Readers get first-hand accounts of how neighbors spied on neighbors, teachers spied on students, ministers spied on church-goers, and spies even spied on spies.
 * //Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement //**
 * by ** [|Rick Bowers]

by [|Hallie Fryd] Do you love a good scandal? This book includes 50 juicy pop culture, political, and entertainment-related scandals complete with photos, event synopses, and a look at why it went down in history and how it continues to influence us today.
 * //Scandalous!: 50 Shocking Events You Should Know About (So You Can Impress Your Friends) //**

An innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.
 * //The Swerve: How the World Became Modern //**
 * by ** [|Stephen Greenblatt]

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.
 * //Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption //**
 * by ** [|Laura Hillenbrand]

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance—and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler’s true character and ruthless ambition.
 * //In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin //**
 * by ** [|Erik Larson]

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Cynthia Levinson] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">This book tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama, between May 2 and May 11, 1963. Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi s and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. s precept to fill the jails, they succeeded where adults had failed in desegregating one of the most racially violent cities in America.
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March //**

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Sue Macy] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation.
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) //**

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Bill O'Reilly] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">and <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Martin Dugard] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Featuring some of history's most remarkable figures, vivid detail, and page-turning action, //Killing Lincoln// is history that reads like a thriller.
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever //**