New Non-fiction

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. They called themselves the K.K.K. The birth of an American terrorist group. YA/ 322.42/ BAR
Using personal accounts unearthed from oral histories, congressional documents and diaries, the author of the Newbery Honor book, Hitler Youth, unveils the creation of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee, and its spread across the American South.

Wiesel, Elie. Night. YA 940.5318/ WIE
A candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author’s original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man’s capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.