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The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid goes over one of the first documented evidence of an assassination attempt at the highest level of the United States government against a foreign politician during the Congo’s fight for independence in the 1960s. What a story…
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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know by Dov Waxman aims to educate readers on one of the longest ongoing wars ever. Rather than retelling stories and interviews from both sides of the war, the book is rather much more simple in nature: answering some of the most asked questions about the war without…
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A Killing on the Hill by Robert Dugoni is a tale of greed, secrets, jealousy and murder set in the Seattle’s Prohibition era of the 1930s. Truth be told, I found the story to be completely average. Average enough, you could draw a line straight down the middle. There wasn’t really anything inherently breathtaking with…
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The Big Fail by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera talks about how the United States government, along with the other big agencies there, are supposed to be best equipped to deal with a pandemic such as when Covid-19 struck, which generally failed the American public. It is truly fascinating to have experienced and survived my…
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How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler is a dark comedic fantasy series that is guaranteed to provide for an outrageous and hilarious time. While obviously not for everyone, I can assume that if by the end of chapter two you’re still not warm to the idea and tone of…
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This writing by Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in the ‘Explanatory Reporting’ category. It talks about what I’d assume is a criminal law/topic that most average citizens most likely have heard of, but either misunderstood how it operates or are not familiar with at all: catching a felony murder…
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Poison in Their Hearts by Laura Sebastian is the third and final book in the Castle in Their Bones trilogy set. I’m really not going to lie about the fact that I’ve been eagerly waiting for this book to drop ever since the completion of Stardust in Their Veins! It’s not always that I read…
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall goes over a tragic bus accident in Jerusalem in which aboard were many kindergartner children. Having won the 2024 Pulitzer prize in the General Non-Fiction category, the book obviously has a lot to live up to. Although the main…
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This writing by Katie Engelhart of The New York Times won the 2024 Pulitzer prize in the ‘Feature Writing’ category. It talks about a topic I’m sure that hits way too close at home for many: dementia. Katie follow two sisters’ journey in Denison, Iowa as they fight for guardianship over their mother, Diane. Fearing…
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond is a 2017 Pulitzer winner in the General Non-Fiction category, covering the problem of home eviction and homelessness within Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Although the author chooses to only cover eight or so people within this one city, his higher purpose is to generally highlight how…
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