History, from Herodotus down through Gibbon and into Ambrose, Zinn and beyond, has always been about narrative. And with narrative, almost by its very nature, comes a certain sense of inevitability: what has happened is what would have happened. But that is history as it has been written. History as it is lived is a [...]
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Top Shelf for January – Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies
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The Future of Us
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Back in 1996, two best friends log onto the internet using their modem and an AOL CD (remember those?), and suddenly find their future Facebook profiles that they will have fifteen years later. At least that’s the premise of the new book from YA superstar authors Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler. It’s an intriguing concept. [...]
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