River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile Andrew Fukuda with her father and her

with her father and her Japanese mother

and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-19th century

Great ideas often come from a simple spark: A soccer player on the New Zealand national team notices all the unused wool his country produces and figures out a way to turn them into shoes (Allbirds)

the debut of an invention called the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile Andrew Fukuda with her father and her2022 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History and Biography For millennia the location of the Nile Rivers headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe and extend their colonial empires. Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to claim