Non-fiction
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Dec 11th: The Suffragents by Brooke Kroeger
“The story of how and why a group of prominent and influential men in New York…
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Day 9: The Witches by Stacy Schiff
“The panic began early in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister’s niece…
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Dec 8th: The World Broke in Two by Bill Goldstein
“The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four…
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December 7th: Silk and the Sword: the women of the Norman Conquest by Sharon Bennett Connolly
“The momentous events of 1066, the story of invasion, battle and conquest, are well known. But…
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Dec 6th: Inseparable: the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American History
“In this “excellent” portrait of America’s famed nineteenth-century Siamese twins, celebrated biographer Yunte Huang discovers in…
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Dec 3rd: Ten restaurants that shaped America by Paul Freedman
“Combining a historian’s rigor with a foodie ’s palate, Ten Restaurants That Changed America reveals how…
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Dec 2: The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker
“For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world,…
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Dec 1: The Sisters, the Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
“This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe…
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History wishes – a non-fiction advent calendar for 2018
So tomorrow is the 1st of December and Christmas is officially open for business in our…
Kate Braithwaite 