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Endless Universe

Beyond the Big Bang

by Paul J. Steinhardt, Neil Turok
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007

**Two world-renowned scientists present an audacious new vision of the cosmos that “steals the thunder from the Big Bang theory.” —**Wall Street Journal The Big Bang theory—widely regarded as the leading explanation for the origin of the universe—posits that space and time sprang...
by Brent W. Jeffs, Maia Szalavitz
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009

In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can become valuable property as plural wives, but boys are expendable, even a liability. In this powerful and heartbreaking account, former FLDS member Brent Jeffs reveals both the terror and the love he experienced...

The Demon Under the Microscope

From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug

by Thomas Hager
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006

In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of sulfa, the first antibiotic and the drug that shaped modern medicine. The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics....

The Unlikely Lavender Queen

A Memoir of Unexpected Blossoming

by Jeannie Ralston
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008

From one of the founders of Hill Country Lavender comes this honest, funny, and poignant memoir of a woman who gives up a lot for the man she loves—her beloved blue state, bagels and all-night bodegas—only to wonder: Was it too much? In 1990, Jeannie Ralston was a successful magazine writer...

Evicted

Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

***WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE GENERAL NON-FICTION *** From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America * * In this brilliant,heartbreaking book, Matthew...

Brothers in Arms

THE EPIC STORY OF THE 761ST TANK BATTALION, WWII'S FORGOTTEN HEROES

by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anthony Walton
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004

A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, BROTHERS IN ARMS recounts the extraordinary story of the 761st “Black Panthers,” the first all-black armored unit to see combat in World War II. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar first learned about the battalion from family...

Five Days at Memorial

Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

by Sheri Fink
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013

Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs...

Starvation Heights

A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

by Gregg Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005

In this true story—a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights—Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history. In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the...

City of Scoundrels

The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

by Gary Krist
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012

The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in the life of Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse. When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge...

Headstrong

52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World

by Rachel Swaby
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015

Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists. In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: “She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three...

The Underground Girls of Kabul

In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

by Jenny Nordberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014

An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom in Afghanistan that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl. In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned...

For the Sins of My Father

A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mob Life

by Albert DeMeo
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2002

A suspenseful, emotionally charged real-life Sopranos: The son of New York's most notorious Mafia killer reveals the conflicted life he led being raised by a cold-blooded murderer, who was also a devoted family man, and the wrenching legacy of Mafia family life. Al DeMeo will never forget the...

The Informant

A True Story

by Kurt Eichenwald
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2001

From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy—which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man . . . It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: a senior executive with America's most...

Avenue of Spies

A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris

by Alex Kershaw
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015

The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring...
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