This week’s Unshelved Book Club features books that will teach you about the past, including comics full of advice for new Jewish immigrants, a biography of Evel Knievel, a novel that shows the dangers of morphine, profiles of early U.S. astronauts’ wives, a book about Germany’s WWII U-boats, a biography of Rasputin, a graphic novel about a WWII ace, and an historical novel in which a family hunts for a missing girl on the frozen steppes of Ukraine.