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1. Late migrations: a natural history of love and loss

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Renkl, Margaret
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"Beautifully written, masterfully structured, and brimming with insight into the natural world . . . It has the makings of an American classic." --ANN PATCHETT

2. Operation Paperclip: the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America

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Jacobsen, Annie
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Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.

3. The rediscovery of America: Native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history

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Blackhawk, Ned
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"The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, as a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. ... Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories, from Spanish...