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Released: April 19, 2013
"Emotionally complex and genuinely affecting."
A Louisiana-born journalist's memoir of how he came to terms with questions of personal belonging that accompanied his "country mouse" sister's tragically premature death.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 18, 2013
"A poignantly eloquent meditation on the genetics of belonging."
The moving, heartbreakingly lucid story about how a family learned to cope with, and ultimately appreciate, a daughter born with Down syndrome.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 16, 2013
"What is the counterargument against something so obvious and simplistic?"
Sports performance authority Grover argues that one of the main things holding people back is their inability to accept that they have "zero limitations."
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NONFICTION
Released: April 9, 2013
"Sad, controversial and illuminating."
A mother explores, morally and emotionally, her decision to forgo medical help and allow her newborn son to die.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 9, 2013
"A timely call to attention to a global health problem, but with no real solutions in sight."
The story of "where attitudes about chronic illness came from, and where they stand today."
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Released: April 3, 2013
"An angry but fascinating account of negligence, incompetence and injustice justified (as it still is) in the name of national security."
Turning up a surprising amount of hitherto hidden material and talkative survivors, Brown (History/Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County;
A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland, 2005) writes a vivid, often hair-raising history of the great plutonium factories and the privileged cities built around them.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"The answers these people have earned are by no means applicable to every reader, but their questions, and how they wrestle with them, provide a great deal of insight."
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Released: April 2, 2013
"Intelligent and thought-provoking views into the complexities of addiction and recovery."
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Released: April 1, 2013
"Cozy and chatty, these stories offer an intriguing glimpse into life as a nurse on a remote Scottish island."
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Released: March 26, 2013
"An honest probing of law, public perception and conscience in the abortion debate."
In her first book, pro-abortion rights activist Erdreich tries to bring some clarity and reason to the arguments around a woman's right to choose in light of recent attempts to restrict that right.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 26, 2013
"A flawed but useful call to arms in the fight against childhood obesity."
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Released: March 19, 2013
"A gripping environmental thriller."
An award-winning science journalist exposes how corporate interests and corrupt politicians almost turned a quiet, suburban New Jersey beach community into a toxic wasteland.
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