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Best New Books in 2013: Travis H’s Picks

I’m the manager of the Zebulon Community Library and have a long tenure with the library system. I majored in English and have had my fill of “good books.” Since then, I have read mostly nonfiction,...

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Best ‘New to Us’ Books in 2013: Travis H’s Picks

I’m the manager of the Zebulon Community Library and have a long tenure with the library system. I majored in English and have had my fill of “good books.” Since then, I read mostly nonfiction, techno...

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Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

In the year 1665, a young man named Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck became the first Native American student to graduate from Harvard. He was born on Martha’s Vineyard, which was at that time mostly inhabited...

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Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard

James Abram Garfield, the 20th president of these United States of America, was a remarkable man. His father died when he was 18 months old, and Garfield was raised in almost absolute poverty by a...

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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of...

This is an amazing account of the life of photographer Edward Curtis. It begins in 1866 in Seattle, where Princess Angeline is living in a 2 room damp shack down among the piers. She is the oldest and...

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Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee by Michael Korda

Clouds of Glory is not the definitive book on Robert E. Lee, but not even Douglas Freeman was able to do this in four volumes. Highly readable, Clouds of Glory is largely sympathetic to Lee. Korda does...

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Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper

One thing that helps make my long commute bearable is a great audio book, and Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper certainly qualifies! I know the author best as the writer of the fantasy series, The Dark is...

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Best New Books of 2014: Emil S’s Picks

When a book calls my name, I will not turn it down. Somehow, the books know how to find me. No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald “Cincinnatus” was the alias Edward Snowden used when he contacted Glenn...

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Best New Books of 2014: Kerri H’s Picks

I read everything… fiction, nonfiction, short stories, young adult fiction. Happy books, sad books, disturbing books, thought provoking books. I try to round out my reading experience each year with a...

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Best ‘New to Us’ Books in 2014: Amy W’s Picks

According to this post, it seems I only read coming of age literary novels and hard-hitting non-fiction. But really look at it this way, I have spent a summer on an Ojibwe Indian reservation and in a...

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