NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 13, 2012
"An informative and moving book that raises profound issues regarding the nature of love, the value of human life and the future of humanity."
National Book Award–winning journalist Solomon (
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, 2001, etc.) uses issues raised by disability to examine the nature of parenthood, the definition of disability and the ability to control reproduction to create designer children.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 13, 2012
"An informative, often-heartbreaking portrait of a once-great American metropolis gone to hell."
Rolling Stone contributing editor Binelli (
Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!, 2006) provides an engrossing chronicle of the decline (and possible rebirth?) of a major American city.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 8, 2012
"An honest, earnest, straightforward account of one boy's coming out."
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 8, 2012
"An examination that escapes the dangers of overgeneralization to provide provocative information presented compellingly."
A mother and daughter examine the millennials, children born in the United States from 1980 through 1990.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 6, 2012
"For fans and students of popular sociology, an eclectic and pithy confirmation that many colorful heroes who speak in balloons are, indeed, Jewish."
How comic books' awesome superheroes stormed the mainstream without forsaking their distinctive ethnic character.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 6, 2012
"Lighthearted and silly, full of advice as patently obvious as it is sensible."
Daily Connoisseur blogger Scott explains what she learned about living well from the two French families she stayed with a decade ago as a student in Paris.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 2, 2012
"An interesting academic study that labors to understand Klan members from inside their heads, while making it clear that the author abhors what the organization stood for."
Cunningham (Sociology/Brandeis Univ.; There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence, 2004) digs deeply into the relatively recent history of the white supremacist group.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2012
"A simple but moving call for action."
Mega-selling novelist Steel (
Friends Forever, 2012, etc.) reveals a hidden chapter from her life: the time she spent assisting the homeless on the streets of San Francisco.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2012
"Illuminating homilies of the Jewish people, by the Jewish people and, particularly, for the Jewish people."
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2012
"Yalom's prose occasionally seems a bit breathless for an octogenarian author, but her first-person confidences give this an engagingly informal tone that matches the relatively light treatment of its subject."
Cultural historian Yalom (
Birth of the Chess Queen, 2004, etc.) explicates Gallic attitudes toward the
not-always-so-tender passion.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 30, 2012
"Harrowing, sensitive stories of heroism during one of the most traumatic natural disasters in Japanese history."
NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 30, 2012
"Troubling, detailed account of race and racism in today's media."
Tampa Bay Times TV and media critic Deggans' first book dissects "the powerful ways modern media often works to feed our fears, prejudices, and hate toward each other."
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