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|  | Efrain of the Sonoran Desert by Gary Paul Nabhan, Janet K. Miller
The very first thing that you see when you reach the beach and leave your boat behind in the shallows of the Sea of Cortez is a lizard running away from the water. It curls its tail high so the waves won't get it wet. That's what Gary Paul Nabhan remembers about his first visit to the Seri village in Kino Bay. There he met storyteller Amalia Astorga. She tells him the bittersweet history of Efrain, a sun-blotched lizard. In so doing, she helps him to understand how the Seris have protected a species that everywhere else is endangered. Together Amalia and Gary give young readers an insight into the life and culture of the Seris, an endangered people themselves, but a people who know how to love their land and its inhabitants. AUTHOR: Gary Paul Nabhan, Janet K. Miller
PUBLISHER: Cinco Puntos Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Americans in the Spanish Civil War by Peter N. Carroll
The author charts the volunteers' motivations for enlisting in the fight against Spanish fascism and places their actions in the context of the Depression era. AUTHOR: Peter N. Carroll
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Travels with Charley by Gary Sinise, Jay Parini, John Steinbeck, Ron McLarty
Steinbeck writes colorfully of his own travels through America with his French poodle. Subtitled IN SEARCH OF AMERICA, the book attempts to define what it is to be American. Steinbeck, however, concedes failure: I began to feel that Americans exist, that they really do have generalized characteristics regardless of their states, their social and financial status, their religious and their political convictions. But the more I inspected this American image, the less sure I became of what it is. AUTHOR: Gary Sinise, Jay Parini, John Steinbeck, Ron McLarty
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich by Callum Macdonald
If anyone warranted assassination during World War II, that man was Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) -- chief of the security police, rabid anti-Semite, architect of the Final Solution, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, and Hitler's most likely successor. In 1941, at the height of the Nazi's seeming invincibility, the Czech government-in-exile launched a desperate operation to kill Heydrich. From the assassins' training in England to their Thermopylae-like last stand in the flooded crypt of a Prague church, and the Nazi's savage reprisals (including the obliteration of two villages), The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich brilliantly recounts one of World War II's most daring and tragic missions. AUTHOR: Callum Macdonald
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | U. S. Navy SEALs in Action by Hans Halberstadt
Takes a close-up look at the SEALS, their equipment, their camouflage and uniforms, their tactics, and their practice techniques. AUTHOR: Hans Halberstadt
PUBLISHER: MBI Publishing Company LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Weather Channel by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
When cable television's Weather Channel blew onto the air in 1982, a new age of broadcasting dawned. This history of the enterprise chronicles the low and high points of the channel's history. AUTHOR: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
PUBLISHER: Harvard Business School Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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