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“Houdini: The Elusive American” by Adam Begley, Yale University Press, 2020, 232 pages, $26
"The Last Negroes at Harvard" by Kent Garrett with Jeanne Ellsworth, 2020, HMH Books, 320 pages, $27
”Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream” by Blair Imani, illustrated by Rachelle Baker, foreword by Patrisse Cullors, 2020, Ten Speed Press, 180 pages, $18.99
“Ship of Destiny,” by Frank Chadwick, Baen Books, 2020, 485 pages, $16
"State of Play: The Old School Guide to New School Baseball" by Bill Ripken, 2020, Diversion Books, 240 pages, $24.99
“Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power” by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, 2020, Seal Press, 226 pages, $28
“Catastrophe at Spithead: The Sinking of the Royal George” by Hilary L. Rubinstein, Naval Institute Press 2020, 352 pages, $38.95
Don't be surprised if several different emotions go through your mind as you're reading "The Lost Diary of M."
“Last Train to Texas: My Personal Railroad Odyssey,” by Fred W. Frailey, Indiana University Press, 2020, 232 pages, $32.00
“Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights” by Gretchen Sorin, 2020, Liveright, 352 pages, $28.95
“How to Find a Higgs Boson, and Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small” by Ivo Van Vulpen, Yale University Press, 2020, 272 pages, $28
“Penric’s Progress” by Lois McMaster Bujold, Baen Books, 2020, 320 pages $25
“Clean Getaway” by Nic Stone, 2020, Crown Books for Young Readers, 229 pages, $16.99
“By and By: Charles Albert Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music” by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Bryan Collier, 2020, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 48 pages, $17.99
“The Atlantic War Remembered: An Oral History Collection” edited by John T. Mason Jr., Naval Institute Press, 2020, 512 pages, $45
”Sisters of the Undertow” by Johnnie Bernhard, Texas Review Press at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, 2020, paperback, 172 pages, $21.95
“Churchill’s Phoney War: A Study in Folly and Frustration,” by Graham T. Clews, Naval Institute Press, 2019, 360 pages, $44.95
“Delivered by Midwives: African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South” by Jenny M. Luke, 2018, University Press of Mississippi, 193 pages, $30
“Over There in the Air: The Fightin’ Texas Aggies in World War I, 1917-18” by John A. Adams Jr., Texas A&M University Press, 2020, 142 pages, $29.95
“Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick” by Zora Neale Hurston, edited with an introduction by Genevieve West, foreword by Tayari Jones, 2020, Amistad, 304 pages, $25.99
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