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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,217 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,505,121 ratings — published 2003
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.22 — 36,927 ratings — published 1998
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.60 — 43,895 ratings — published 2025
What Is the What (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.15 — 87,400 ratings — published 2006
Address Unknown (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.27 — 27,690 ratings — published 1938
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.19 — 117,738 ratings — published 2015
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 202,354 ratings — published 2018
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,985,563 ratings — published 2014
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 148,842 ratings — published 1960
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,720 ratings — published 2003
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 3.87 — 14,512 ratings — published 2012
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,122 ratings — published 1997
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.00 — 761,310 ratings — published 2003
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 3.66 — 140,575 ratings — published 2003
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.83 — 430,981 ratings — published 2023
Fear Itself: Inside the FBI Roundup of German Americans During World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2005
Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.68 — 485 ratings — published 1999
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 467 ratings — published 2025
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,185 ratings — published 2017
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,357 ratings — published 2018
Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,490 ratings — published 2015
Detained: A Boy’s Journal of Survival and Resilience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.72 — 796 ratings — published
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.97 — 15,502 ratings — published 2018
We Are Not From Here (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 8,019 ratings — published 2020
An American Immigrant (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.99 — 731 ratings — published
Where We Come From (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,843 ratings — published 2019
Dominicana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.11 — 37,889 ratings — published 2019
Farewell Cuba, Mi Isla (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.11 — 114 ratings — published 2022
It Can't Happen Here (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.81 — 24,638 ratings — published 1935
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,609 ratings — published 2015
Family of Spies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,775 ratings — published 2025
Solito (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.48 — 77,702 ratings — published 2022
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,690 ratings — published 2004
All the Glimmering Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.60 — 17,497 ratings — published 2024
The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.72 — 2,796 ratings — published 2025
Life After Windows (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.83 — 484 ratings — published
Baldwin: A Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 799 ratings — published
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,518 ratings — published 2016
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,658 ratings — published 1973
The Ungrateful Refugee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,524 ratings — published 2019
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,302 ratings — published 2015
Hostage (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.74 — 8,537 ratings — published 2025
Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.64 — 301 ratings — published 2024
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,809 ratings — published 2015
The Tower of Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.11 — 9 ratings — published 1968
All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,635 ratings — published 2019
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 71,811 ratings — published 1938
Julia Paradise (A King Penguin)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 2.98 — 59 ratings — published 1986
Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,691 ratings — published 2012
“We want our students to consider our classrooms relevant to their world and responsive to their needs, so when world events dredge up new discussion needs, we shouldn't inadvertently signal that students should save them for the hallway, the lunchroom, and their social media.”
― Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom
― Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom
“For us on the East Coast of the United States the systematic change in the calendar begins on December 31, 2017. It starts in the South Pacific nation of Samoa, which is always the first country to welcome in the New Year. Just 101 miles to the east is American Samoa, which will have to wait for an entire day to pass, before they can celebrate the New Year in….
Around the globe there are 39 different local time zones, which cause this phenomenon to take place over a period of 26 hours, before everyone on Earth enters the New Year.
The year of 2018 is first celebrated at 5 a.m. on December 31, 2017, in Samoa and on Christmas Island in Kiribati. I have actually been on that small island, located in the figurative center of the largest ocean in the world. Only fifteen minutes later, the New Year arrives on Chatham Island in New Zealand.
It isn’t until 8 a.m. that larger land masses are affected and then by 9 a.m., much of Australia and parts of Russia can ring in the New Year. In rapid succession North & South Korea, China and the Philippines fall to the moving clock. By noon Indonesia, Thailand and 10 more countries enter into the New Year. Having been in Malaysia and Thailand, I personally know what it’s like, hanging from your heels, on the opposite side of the Earth from where we are now.
The ever moving midnight hour visits our troops in Afghanistan, at 2:30 p.m. and washes over Europe, starting at 4 p.m. It continues to flow over the continent until leaving the United Kingdom three hours later. Entering the Atlantic Ocean it does not reappear in America, until it reaches parts of Brazil at 9 p.m.
Midnight finally comes to us on the east coast of North America where we celebrate the New Year with more gusto than anywhere else on Earth. In the United States and Canada we celebrate for three hours, before handing the baton over to Alaska, Hawaii and the United States owned Pacific Islands. By 7 a.m. the last of the American Islands in the Pacific Ocean can finally herald in 1918. I have heard it said that if you had the resources and time, you could fly from Sydney to Honolulu and celebrate the New Year twice. I can imagine that this little bit of fun could be quite expensive!”
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Around the globe there are 39 different local time zones, which cause this phenomenon to take place over a period of 26 hours, before everyone on Earth enters the New Year.
The year of 2018 is first celebrated at 5 a.m. on December 31, 2017, in Samoa and on Christmas Island in Kiribati. I have actually been on that small island, located in the figurative center of the largest ocean in the world. Only fifteen minutes later, the New Year arrives on Chatham Island in New Zealand.
It isn’t until 8 a.m. that larger land masses are affected and then by 9 a.m., much of Australia and parts of Russia can ring in the New Year. In rapid succession North & South Korea, China and the Philippines fall to the moving clock. By noon Indonesia, Thailand and 10 more countries enter into the New Year. Having been in Malaysia and Thailand, I personally know what it’s like, hanging from your heels, on the opposite side of the Earth from where we are now.
The ever moving midnight hour visits our troops in Afghanistan, at 2:30 p.m. and washes over Europe, starting at 4 p.m. It continues to flow over the continent until leaving the United Kingdom three hours later. Entering the Atlantic Ocean it does not reappear in America, until it reaches parts of Brazil at 9 p.m.
Midnight finally comes to us on the east coast of North America where we celebrate the New Year with more gusto than anywhere else on Earth. In the United States and Canada we celebrate for three hours, before handing the baton over to Alaska, Hawaii and the United States owned Pacific Islands. By 7 a.m. the last of the American Islands in the Pacific Ocean can finally herald in 1918. I have heard it said that if you had the resources and time, you could fly from Sydney to Honolulu and celebrate the New Year twice. I can imagine that this little bit of fun could be quite expensive!”
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