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Released: April 24, 2012
"A heartbreaking story of love and dedication told with remarkable compassion and literary skill."
Philadelphia Daily News writer Kram explores the complicated relationships among family, love, duty and assisted suicide.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 24, 2012
"A captivating, convincing case for car-free--or at least car-reduced--cities."
NONFICTION
Released: April 19, 2012
"An important addition to the environmentalist bookshelf."
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Humes (
Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution, 2011, etc.) examines how wastefulness is built into the American way of life.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 17, 2012
"A meaty history of the American forest and a convincing testament to its continued political, cultural and environmental importance."
NONFICTION
Released: April 12, 2012
"Entertaining, balanced and provocative."
Sales was not part of the curriculum at Harvard Business School. Former
Daily Telegraph journalist Broughton (
Ahead of the Curve: Two Years At Harvard Business School, 2008) explains why that's a big problem.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 11, 2012
"Informative, engrossing and delightful."
A leading natural scientist's search for animals and plants that have survived nearly unchanged for millions of years.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"Stellar cultural writing--Bissell has the knowledge and wit to earn his provocations."
A whip-smart, occasionally pugnacious collection of essays on culture from a wide-ranging critic.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"Mission accomplished. Readers will come away not only hungry, but with a deeper understanding of the Mexican people and their cuisine."
NONFICTION
Released: April 10, 2012
"Gottschall brings a light touch to knotty psychological matters, and he's a fine storyteller himself."
A lively pop-science overview of the reasons why we tell stories and why storytelling will endure.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 9, 2012
"Wilson succeeds in explaining his complex ideas, so attentive readers will receive a deeply satisfying exposure to a major scientific controversy."
Never shy about tackling big questions, veteran evolutionary biologist Wilson (The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, 2006, etc.) delivers his thoughtful if contentious explanation of why humans rule the Earth.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 3, 2012
"Of the many words written about Jacqueline Kennedy, these are among the best."
Evocative memoir of guarding First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy through the young and sparkling years of the Kennedy presidency and the dark days following the assassination.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 3, 2012
"With humor and verve, Maddow lays a solid basis for that hoped-for interview with Cheney (fingers crossed)."
In her hard-hitting debut, popular MSNBC host Maddow examines how the country has lost control of its national-security policy.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
"A bracing cooperative effort taking readers as close to war as humanly possible."
NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
"Snack-sized chapters with banquet-sized satisfaction."
The author of The Stories of English (2004) and other volumes devoted to the nature and history of our language returns with a gem that sparkles with information about how English grows, changes, adopts and plays.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
"Stunning in both the art and the audacity."
Visually arresting and emotionally devastating, this graphic memoir of war and childhood feels like an art book and explodes like a car bomb.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
"Definitive and exhaustive, animated by a profound respect and admiration."
The second volume of the author's massive biography of legendary baseball manager Connie Mack (1862–1956).
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
"Straight talk by a clear-thinking intellectual with his heart in the right place."
An American journalist offers an elegant, deeply honest look at the failure of Jewish liberalism in forging Israel as a democratic state.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2012
"Although the paragraphs are sometimes thick with detail, the author has documented a story of immense cultural importance."
The author of
Blackout: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training (2004) returns with a comprehensive account of how journalists--black and white--covered the emerging story of the integration of Major League Baseball.
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