Category: Non-Fiction
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In The Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2014 Blurb: On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette. Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carried the aspirations of a young country burning to be the first nation to…
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Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 1957 Blurb: In 1956, five young men, including Elliot’s husband, Jim, traveled into the jungles of Ecuador to establish communication with the fierce Huaorani Tribe, a people whose only previous response to the outside world had been to attack all strangers. The men’s mission combined modern technology…
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My Name is Tani and I Believe in Miracles (young reader’s edition) by Tanitoluwa Adawami: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2020 Blurb: At eight years old, Tani Adewumi, a Nigerian refugee, won the 2019 New York State Chess Championship after playing the game for only a year–and while homeless. His story is full of miracles and hope. Tani and his family’s amazing story began amid Boko Haram’s…
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Rescue at the Reef by Jameson and Mary Catherine Reeder: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2025 Blurb: A two-week vacation to the Florida Keys meant Mary and Jameson Sr. could share the beauty of their favorite turquoise-blue waters with their four children. On that serene day at Looe Key Reef, after they finished lunch on the boat, their oldest, ten-year-old Jameson Jr.,…
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Madhouse At The End of The Earth by Julian Sancton: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2021 Blurb: In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the the icy continent of Antarctica. But de Gerlache’s plans to be first…
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Big Dumb Eyes by Nate Bargatze: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2025 Blurb: Nate Bargatze used to be a genius. That is, until the summer after seventh grade when he slipped, fell off a cliff, hit his head on a rock, and “my brain got, like, dented or something.” Before this accident, he dreamed of being “an electric…
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Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Qureshi: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2014 Blurb: Nabeel Qureshi describes his dramatic journey from Islam to Christianity, complete with friendships, investigations, and supernatural dreams along the way. Providing an intimate window into a loving Muslim home, Qureshi shares how he developed a passion for Islam before discovering, almost against his will, evidence…
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The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2019 Synopsis: Drawing on never-before-published transcripts, declassified documents, original interviews, and oral histories from nearly five hundred government officials, first responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and family members, Graff paints the most vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks yet. Beginning in the predawn hours of…
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Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2023 Synopsis: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by…
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The Wager by David Grann: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2023 Synopsis: On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel…
