NONFICTION
Released: June 26, 2013
"An eye-opening account of corruption and secrecy."
Why Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, became the first pope to be cited for crimes against humanity.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 2, 2013
"Intriguing, but at times dry and not entirely satisfying."
A journalist's memoir of how he escaped the Christian fundamentalism that shaped, and distorted, both his and his parents' lives.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"For true believers only--in atheism, that is. Students of the business of religion will find only occasional pearls."
Middling account of an evangelical's 180, written with the assistance of co-author Brown (
Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans, 2009, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2013
"An admirable, worthy message that could be contained on a bumper sticker."
NONFICTION
Released: June 13, 2013
"While it is unlikely that scientists will synthesize a human in the near future, genuinely amazing biology is in the works, and Rutherford delivers a fascinating overview."
The day is nearly here when scientists will create the first purely synthetic life. This prediction turns up regularly, but British science writer and
Nature editor Rutherford insists that the time is ripe, and he makes his case with contagious enthusiasm.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"An incendiary piece of work that will hopefully encourage other victims to escape the IFB's web."
A damning memoir of life under the thumb of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Church, from former member Zichterman.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2013
"With this memoir, he does just that."
A memoir focusing on the passage from boyhood to manhood and from confusion to understanding.Fiction author Schickler (Sweet and Vicious, 2004, etc.) tackles the truth of his own life and the path he traveled through religion, confusion, depression and women to accomplish his goals.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Guengerich enriches his book with specific human elements drawn from his pastoral career, making it accessible and even evocative. However, he is simply following in the footsteps of thinkers across time who yearned for spirituality but rejected the world of the spirit."
NONFICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A candid, cosmopolitan look at the experience of Islam in the digital age."
Occasionally glib, yet conversational, ultimately endearing account of a Sudanese-born Malaysian youth's reckoning with his inherited Islamic faith through the act of blogging.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 19, 2013
"Thoughtful, sobering reflections on a seemingly intractable conflict."
Israel has betrayed its best, truest self, argues
Haaretz journalist and peace activist Shavit in this wrenching dissection of the nation's past and present.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"Refreshingly free of self-serious dogmatism, the author's study of other religions shows how it deepened his commitment to his Christian faith."
An American Catholic theologian offers a candid memoir about his unusual spiritual journey and a plea for ecumenical tolerance.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 26, 2013
"Mild though the rebuke is, a readable and persuasive argument--if, of course, an exercise in preaching to the choir."
A spirited repudiation of pies and deities in the sky in favor of an ethic that "is about this world."
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