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Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics by Jeremy Schaap

Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics

Jeremy Schaap

7 hours, 41 minutes • audio • 2007

nonfiction biography history sports emotional informative medium-paced
They Called Us Enemy - Expanded Edition by Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei

They Called Us Enemy - Expanded Edition

Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei

224 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction graphic novel history memoir race young adult emotional fast-paced
Switchboard Soldiers by Jennifer Chiaverini

Switchboard Soldiers

Jennifer Chiaverini

14 hours, 44 minutes • audio • 2022

fiction historical emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

288 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction business history politics emotional informative sad medium-paced
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 by Joseph Loconte

A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18

Joseph Loconte

201 pages • hardcover • 2015

nonfiction biography history adventurous reflective medium-paced
To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Pellegrino Charles

To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima

Pellegrino Charles

448 pages • 2019

nonfiction history reflective medium-paced
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead

A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France

The Resistance Quartet

Caroline Moorehead

374 pages • hardcover • 2011

nonfiction history emotional reflective slow-paced