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71. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown. Reading this book is like riding a pendulum between rage and depression. It's one thing to know that the U.S. repeatedly cheated, bullied, or murdered Native Americans, and it's quite another to read the details ( Read more... )

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61. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris.
62. Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky.
63. Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin.
64. Redemption In Indigo by Karen Lord.
65. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

66. James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest by Michael P. Malone. It's been ( Read more... )

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21. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin.

22. Rebellion at Christiana by Margaret Hope Bacon. I'm not sure where I picked this up, as it's long out of print; probably a library sale, judging by the tape marks on the cover. It discusses an incident that took place in 1850 in which a Maryland slave owner traveled across ( Read more... )

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11. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron.
12. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith writing as Claire Morgan.

13. Surviving the Siege of Beirut: A Personal Account by Lina Mikdadi. Amazon link this time because this book is hard to find; I had to order my copy used from the UK, and had honestly forgotten about it by ( Read more... )

1. Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution In Music by Marisa Meltzer.

2. The Patriot Witch (Book One of the Traitor to the Crown trilogy) by C.C. Finlay. First of Charlie's three books about witchcraft (I think it's safe to say that it's magic, but in context it's witchcraft) and the American Revolutionary War. Proctor Brown has big ambitions, but ( Read more... )

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101. Old Fort Snelling: 1819-1858 by Marcus L. Hansen. Originally published in 1918, this book covers the first era of the fort, up to its (temporary) decommissioning before the Civil War and the Dakota War. It's a bit ( Read more... )

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91. Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 by Duane Schultz.
92. Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith.
93. The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum.
94. The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin ( Read more... )

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91. Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 by Duane Schultz. I've done a fair amount of reading about the Dakota War by now, but this is the most on-the-ground account yet; Schultz culls from memoirs, letters, etc. ( Read more... )

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81. The Dakota Indian Internment at Fort Snelling, 1862-1864 by Corinne L. Monjeau-Marz. You may have heard of the conflict that happened here during the American Civil War; while the men of the First Minnesota were out east fighting for the ( Read more... )

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41. When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty by Hugh Kennedy. Ten chapters covering the Abbasid caliphs, concentrating on Mansur, Mahdi, Harun, and the succession struggle following Harun's death. Kennedy's stated approach is more populist than some, ( Read more... )