2 The sinking of the Titanic was avoidable, but the loss of life that night is tragic. The details of that fateful night have been passed on by survivors and compiles in the book A Night to Remember.
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1 A Backpack, A Bear and Eight Cases of Vodka is a memoir that taught me so much about a refugee’s perspective. Lev honestly tells the reader about not just his experiences, but his feelings and how he was deeply affected by the 10 years he spent as a Jew in the USSR.
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1 Cunard, who owned the Lusitania, not only set sail after being warned, but they also decided to load the ship with some weapons and ammunition without telling the passengers.
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
1 “Out of roughly 29 million adult women in America in 1928, less than a dozen had pilot’s licenses on file with the U.S. Department of Commerce.” I love reading books about the lesser-known parts of history and Fly Girls falls right into that category. Early in aviation history, women were making […]
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2 [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries …” When Rome fell, the world was on the verge of losing more than just a stable civilization – it was about to lose knowledge. Books were casualties of war. Yet, […]
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
“Jefferson loved order, symmetry, and balance, and there was no place on the mountaintop more orderly, symmetrical, and balanced than the garden, which he had designed many years ago and worked to perfect for half a century.” Thomas Jefferson is a fascinating historical character. He accomplished much in his life […]
Twilight at Monticello by Alan Pell Crawford
“The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.” Most people can name the first president of the United States, but who was the second president? John Adams did a lot for America, but is not always a figure that is […]
John Adams by David McCullough
2 “Radium was a silent stalker, hiding behind that mask, using its disguise to burrow deep into the women’s jaws and teeth.” What if the whole world told you something was safe and then that thing ended up being deadly and killed you? That is exactly what happened to the radium […]
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
5 “Above the sounds of misery, the sergeant called out, ‘Next stop boys, the Gates of Hell.'” World War I sent Americans across an ocean to fight on foreign soil to save the lives of people who they didn’t know. World War I had Germans gaining ground and taking more […]
To the Last Man by Jeff Shaara
I have 58 books on my have-read bookshelf so far this year – a lot more already than my usually 52 books a year! I really think that setting reading goals each month is not only helping me read more, but also read a wider variety of books. I’m glad […]