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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Seabiscuit	Laura Hillenbrand	Retraces the journey of Seabiscuit, a horse with crooked legs and a pathetic tail that made racing history in 1938, thanks to the efforts of a trainer, owner, and jockey who transformed a bottom-leve…	OL15828126W
Genocide since 1945	Philip Spencer	"In 1948 the United Nations passed the Genocide Convention. The international community was now obligated to prevent or halt what had hitherto, in Winston Churchill's words, been a "crime without a n…	OL16343132W
On Tyranny	Timothy Snyder	In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons,…	OL17710110W
I Survived	Lauren Tarshis	Eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe has grown up with the beautiful Mount St. Helens always in the background. She's hiked its winding trails, dived into its cold lakes, and fished for trout in its stream…	OL17747219W
The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman	Robin Gregory	It is the young adult story of a lonely, disabled boy who rankles his guardian-grandfather by befriending a secret, otherworldly clan. A haunting, visionary tale spun in the magical realist tradition…	OL17930545W
Tar Beach	Faith Ringgold	Cassie Louise Lightfoot, eight years old in 1939, has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on "tar beach" --the rooftop of her family's Harlem apartmen…	OL1859174W
Artists under Hitler	Jonathan Petropoulos	""What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime?" Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration …	OL19662205W
The House of Truth	Brad Snyder	"Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose campaign. They self-mockingly called the 19th Street row house in which they congregated the 'House of Truth, ' playing off the lively dinner discussions with frequen…	OL19662854W
Hitler's monsters	Eric Kurlander	"The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, exploring the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power. The Nazi fascination…	OL19670623W
Operation chaos	Matthew Sweet	"Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam. They're young, they're radical, and they want to start a revolution. Some of them even w…	OL19732438W
The Cold War's killing fields	Paul Thomas Chamberlin	"In this sweeping, deeply researched book, Paul Thomas Chamberlin boldly argues that the Cold War, long viewed as a mostly peaceful, if tense, diplomatic standoff between democracy and communism, fos…	OL19761688W
The Kennedy years	Richard Reeves	"Collects The New York Times' ... coverage of JKF's presidency and the events during those three turbulent years of 1961 to 1963"--Dust jacket flap.	OL19975080W
The life of the automobile	Steven Parissien	"The car has shaped the modern era more profoundly than any other human invention. Its manufacture introduced mass-production to the world, bringing with it tarmac, suburbs, and car culture. In this …	OL19978055W
Hoodoo	Ronald L. Smith	With this vivid debut, Zora Neale Hurston meets Stephen King in a supernatural Southern Gothic tale for middle grade readers.	OL20006784W
Black Power 50	Komozi Woodard,Sylviane A. Diouf,Khalil Gibran Muhammad	"Black Power burst onto the world scene in 1966 with ideas, politics, and fashion that opened the eyes of millions of people across the globe. In the United States, the movement spread like wildfire:…	OL20034873W
Edge of nowhere	John E. Smelcer,John Smelcer	Seth is a teenage deckhand on his father's boat when he and his dog are washed overboard and swept to one of Alaska's small islands where they struggle for months to survive off land and sea, while h…	OL20637698W
Antifa Comic Book	Gord Hill	"With a perceptive eye and a powerful sense of resolve, Gord Hill, author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, looks at the history of fascism over the last 100 years, and the concurrent anti…	OL21183379W
The wobblies in their heyday	Eric Thomas Chester	"During World War I, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) rose to prominence as an effective, militant union and then was destroyed by a devastating campaign of repression launched by the federa…	OL23186038W
Ples vremena	Dejan Stojanović	Dejan Stojanović, Ples vremena (Dance of Time), Konras, Biblioteka Beli vuk, Beograd, (Belgrade), 2007 Ples vremena, Dance of Time By statement: Dejan Stojanović. Series: Biblioteka Be…	OL2389735W
Tvoritelj	Dejan Stojanović	Dejan Stojanović, Tvoritelj (The Creator), Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd (Belgrade), 2000 By statement: Dejan Stojanović. Series: Biblioteka Savremeni srpski pisci, (Unnumbered) Source rec…	OL2389738W