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Conversations with Myself
Nelson Mandela; Foreword by President Barack Obama
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“This book will reduce the reader to both rapture and tears.”—
Alec Russell,
Financial Times
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Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough and Michael Braungart
North Point Press
"Our planet is alive and the wondrous web of biodiversity provides us with all we need—clean air, water, soil, and energy, as well as food, medicine, resources. Whatever we do, that's what should be the highest priority for protection and we have to adapt everything else to that end. With this book, McDonough and Braungart open our eyes to the way to genuine sustainability by the study of nature and mimicking her ways. This is a groundbreaking book that should be the Bible for the Second Industrial Revolution."—
Dr. David Suzuki, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, and author of
Good News for a Change: Hope for a Troubled Planet
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The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
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Crossing Over
A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
Rubén Martínez
Picador
"To read
Crossing Over
is to read not the history of the foreign other, but to read the story of America, to understand the dynamic that renews the strength and hope of the American Dream even as it reshapes it . . . He has depicted a deep, enduring commonality that may change the way we understand immigration."—
Chicago Tribune
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Death to the Dictator!
A Young Man Casts a Vote in Iran's 2009 Election and Pays a Devastating Price
Afsaneh Moqadam
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Tehran, June 12, 2009. Mohsen Abbaspour, an ordinary young man in his twenties—not particularly political, or ambitious, or worldly—casts the first vote of his...
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Deep Economy
The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Bill McKibben
St. Martin's Griffin
"It would be unwise to dismiss McKibben's ideas as pipe dreams or Luddism. He makes his case on anecdotal, environmental, moral and, as it were, aesthetic grounds. An attentive, widely traveled writer and environmentalist, McKibben cites the success of local projects around the world, from a rabbit-raising academy in China to a Guatemalan cooperative that manufactures farm machinery from old bicycles."—
Lance Morrow,
The New York Times Book Review
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Dominion
The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
Matthew Scully
St. Martin's Griffin
"With an almost masochistic resolve, [Scully] exposes himself to the theory and practice of exploitation as it is found among the exponents of commercial hunting and industrial farming . . . In the three arenas—food, sport, and experiment—Scully asks all the right questions . . . He does this in beautiful and witty prose."—
Christopher Hitchens,
The Atlantic Monthly
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Don't Shoot
One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
David M. Kennedy
Bloomsbury USA
Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the defining crime problem in our country. In some neighborhoods...
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Eaarth
Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
Bill McKibben
St. Martin's Griffin
“Bill McKibben may be the world's best green journalist . . . What really sets
Eaarth
apart from other green books is McKibben’s prescription for survival. This won't be just a matter of replacing a few lightbulbs; McKibben is calling for a more local existence lived ‘lightly, carefully, gently.’ It’s a future unimaginable to most of us—but it may be the only way to survive.”—
Time
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The Eagle's Shadow
Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World
Mark Hertsgaard; New Afterword by the Author
Picador
"Engaging and informative . . . a revealing portrait on others' current views of the 'Parochial Superpower' and everything associated with it . . . Hertsgaard captures the mixed and often confusing presumptions of those who see America from afar and often through Hollywood-tinted glasses, and he offers a variety of explanations why, as his subtitle states, America fascinates and infuriates the world."—
Peter I. Rose,
The Christian Science Monitor
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The Echo Maker
A Novel
Richard Powers
Picador
Winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize Finalist
"A wise and elegant post-9/11 novel . . . As the features of life after 9/11 come into focus—the engagement in Afghanistan, 'that bleak, first anniversary' of the attacks, the march to war in Iraq—Powers accomplishes something magnificent, no facile conflation of personal catastrophe with national calamity, but a lovely essay on perseverance in all its forms."—
Colson Whitehead,
The New York Times Book Review
National Book Awards - Winner
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Ender's Game
The Ender Quintet
#1
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child...
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Enough
Staying Human in an Engineered Age
Bill McKibben
St. Martin's Griffin
"In this wise, well-researched, and important book, Bill McKibben addresses the burning philosophical question of the new century, and the one that counts for the long haul: how to control the technoscientific juggernaut before it dehumanizes our species."—
E. O. Wilson, author of
The Future of Life
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Erasure
A Novel
Percival Everett
Graywolf Press Paper
Percival Everett’s blistering satire about race and writing, available again in paperback Thelonious "Monk" Ellison’s writing career has bottomed out: his...
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Escape from Slavery
The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
Francis Bok with Edward Tivnan
St. Martin's Griffin
"Bok takes the Sudanese government and world leaders to task for their indifference to his people's suffering. Although he at first was an unwilling ambassador, he has become a leading voice for the antislavery movement in the United States."—
Detroit News and Free Press
"A touching modern-day slave narrative that is more than just an account of [Bok's] journey from childhood to manhood under the worst of circumstances . . . Pages of historical details are eye-opening and provide a glimpse into what can happen when religion is the impetus in the governing of a nation . . . An informative, inspiring read."—
The Boston Globe
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The Evening Hour
A Novel
Carter Sickels
Bloomsbury USA
Most of the wealth in Dove Creek, West Virginia, is in the earth-in the coal seams that have provided generations with a way of life. Born and raised here,...
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Falling Through the Earth
A Memoir
Danielle Trussoni
Picador
"The affection, respect and humor she brings to the task of revealing this complicated individual is testimony both to her creative abilities and to the generosity of her spirit."—
Kathryn Harrison,
The New York Times Book Review
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The Fate of Their Country
Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War
Michael F. Holt
Hill and Wang
"Informative . . . A thought-provoking book. [Holt's] writing is interesting and pleasant to read. He has boiled the issues down and makes the overall issue easy to understand and the events themselves clear and concise . . . [This study] quickly defines how politics impacted the national attitude."—
John Benson,
Civil War Book Review
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert
Bloomsbury USA
"[Elizabeth Kolbert's] research is thorough. She gleaned much of her information from personal interviews and visits to localities around the world. Although she is clearly distressed by the lack of concern of the Bush administration about global warming and climate change, Kolbert tends not to use alarmist language to argue for a particular viewpoint, choosing instead to let her stories and interviews do the talking. That is an effective approach to a topic that could, in less-skilled hands, make for dull reading. And by the end of the book, the reader will have no doubt that the problem is a serious one."—
Doug Macdougall,
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Fight Global Warming Now
The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community
Bill McKibben
St. Martin's Griffin
Drawing on the experience of 1,400 Step It Up organizers in all fifty states, Bill McKibben—the author of
The End of Nature
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Deep Economy
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Footnotes in Gaza
A Graphic Novel
Joe Sacco
Metropolitan Books
"Fascinating . . . the cartoonist is in top form throughout . . . A story soaked to the marrow with heartbreaking insights . . . One of the best long-form comics of this decade, and Sacco’s greatest work to date.”—
The Comics Reporter
L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist
Eisner Award Winner
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Gilead
A Novel
Marilynne Robinson
Picador
Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the...
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Ambassador Book Award - Winner - Fiction
Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee - Adult Fiction
Christianity Today Book Award - Fiction
PEN/Faulkner Award - Nominee - Fiction
Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award - Winner - Nonfiction
Society of Midland Authors Book Awards - Winner - Adult Fiction
Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Fiction
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Global Girlfriends
How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide
Stacey Edgar, founder and President of Global Girlfriend
St. Martin's Press
Start small, dream big, change lives— how one woman harnessed the power of fair trade to help women in poverty help themselves Seven years ago, Stacey Edgar...
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The Good Soldiers
David Finkel
Picador
"Against the tradition of combat memoirs, [Finkel] chooses to keep himself out of the action, so that
The Good Soldiers
sometimes reads more like a novel than a reporter’s journal, with Finkel as the omniscient narrator . . .
The Good Soldiers
is more than a splendid account of men in combat. It will stand as the classic book about an extremely challenging war."—
Daniel Ford, Durham, New Hampshire,
Michigan War Studies Review
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The Grammar Devotional
Daily Tips for Successful Writing from Grammar Girl (TM)
Mignon Fogarty
Holt Paperbacks
Mignon Fogarty, perhaps better known as Grammar Girl, presents 365 accessible lessons on language that are sure to inspire every writer. Enhanced by quizzes, word search and scramble exercises, and the mnemonic cartoons and visualizations for which the Grammar Girl podcast is known,
The Grammar Devotional
also serves as a lasting reference and resource on grammar and style.
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