A Replacement Life
by Boris Fishman
Hardcover: Jun 2014
Paperback: Jan 2015
A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York.
Race Against Time
: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
by Jerry Mitchell
Hardcover: Feb 2020
Paperback: Feb 2021
On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings, in what would become known as the "Mississippi Burning" case, were among the most brazen acts of violence during the civil rights movement. And even though...
Radical Evolution
: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human
by Joel Garreau
Hardcover: May 2005
Paperback: May 2006
Taking us behind the scenes with today's foremost researchers and pioneers, Garreau reveals that the super powers of our comic-book heroes already exist, or are in development in hospitals, labs, and research facilities around the
country -- ...
Ragnarok
: The End of the Gods
by A.S. Byatt
Hardcover: Jan 2012
Paperback: Mar 2013
War, natural disaster, reckless gods and the recognition of impermanence in the world are just some of the threads that AS Byatt weaves into this most timely of books. Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, this is a landmark.
Rain
: A Natural and Cultural History
by Cynthia Barnett
Hardcover: Apr 2015
Paperback: Apr 2016
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. This is the first book to tell the story of rain.
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