Revolutionary History!
This week, Alice and Kim talk Revolutionary War history, Persian empresses, and the tragic fire that society buried.
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NEW BOOKS
Don’t You Ever by Mary Carter Bishop
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire by Robert E. Fiesler
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal
No One Tells You This: A Memoir by Glynnis MacNicol
From the Corner of the Oval by Rebecca Dorey-Stein
WEEKLY THEME: Revolutionary History
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America by Catherine Kerrison
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
SEGMENT THREE: Fiction/Nonfiction
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
Gone by Min Kym
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution by Jack Horner and James Gorman
READING NOW
Stalking God by Anjali Kumar
Drinking in America: A History by Mark Edward Lender
OTHER
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
