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The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror. The SS Gairsoppa, destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in the Atlantic during World War II. Since we first set sail on the open sea, ships and their wrecks have been an inevitable part of human history. Archaeologists have made spectacular discoveries excavating these sunken ships, their protective underwater cocoon keeping evidence of past civilizations preserved.

A moving true story for children ages 6 to 9 about growing up in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II - from the iconic Star Trek actor, activist, and author of the New York Times bestselling graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy. February 19, 1942. George Takei is four years old when his world changes forever. Two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares anyone of Japanese descent an enemy of the United States. George and his family were American in every way. They had done nothing wrong.

The inaugural title from Alchemy by Knopf Canada: a searing account by an exquisite writer who came to Canada as a baby, escaping war in Cambodia. In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia that then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau pledged to relocate to Canada. As the final arrivals, their landing was widely documented in newspapers, with photographs of the PM shaking Y-Dang's father's hand, reaching out to pat baby Y-Dang's head.

Longlisted for the National Book Award - A "vivid and frank" (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community's ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic. "A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities." - The Washington Post.

A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today "A feat of both scholarship and storytelling."-Claudio Saunt, author of Unworthy Republic. Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally.

"Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history-and the American present." -Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere * TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 * San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Nonfiction * Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023 * Library Journal Best Memoir and Biography of 2023 * One of Elle's Best Memoirs of 2023 (So Far) * An ALA Notable Book * "The Angela's Ashes for Chinese Americans." -Miwa Messer, Poured Over podcast.

Acclaimed as one of the year's 10 best books by the Washington Post - 12 essential nonfiction books by the New Yorker - 100 notable books by the New York Times - best books by the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Air Mail - 10 essential books by the Telegraph - the New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - the Observer and the Sunday Times Book of the Week - A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan's leaders as war criminals - the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg "Nothing less than a masterpiece.

Winner of the Rabbi Sacks Book Prize A nuanced examination of the Israel's past, present, and future, after reaching its seventy-fifth anniversary and enduring its most challenging year ever, from the two-time National Jewish Book Award-winning author of Israel. Revised and updated throughout for the paperback edition. In 1948, Israel's founders sought a "national home for the Jewish people," where Jewish life would be transformed.

In 1932, as famine rages across Ukraine, the Soviet government calls for the harshest punishment for those who keep for themselves even five stalks of grain. When their mother is accused of hoarding and summarily killed, Nadia and Taras must leave their home on a desperate quest for survival. Attempting to navigate a closed country, to stay together, and to stay alive, Nadia and Taras must face secret police, soldiers, and fellow citizens forced to abandon charity and sometimes even humanity in the face of impossible hunger.

For this edition of Super Explorers, you better bundle up! Come explore the Arctic and Antarctic and all the creatures that make these icy places their homes. To survive in such places, these plants and animals have to be tough. - Arctic wolves can survive up to five months without eating, which helps them survive the long, dark winters when food is hard to find. - Arctic terns sure love the cold! They spend their summers breeding in the Arctic, then fly down during the winter to Antarctica to feast on fish.