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New & Notable Nonfiction: November 2012 [showing slide 6 of 30]

FAR FROM THE TREE by Andrew Solomon
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by Andrew Solomon
"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. Read full book review >
LEONARDO AND THE LAST SUPPER by Ross King MARBLES by Ellen Forney KURT VONNEGUT by Kurt Vonnegut THOMAS JEFFERSON by Jon Meacham NATURE WARS by Jim Sterba FAR FROM THE TREE by Andrew Solomon LOST AT SEA by Jon Ronson AMONG THE ISLANDS by Tim Flannery THE AMISTAD REBELLION by Marcus Rediker THE STORY OF AMERICA by Jill Lepore THE LAST LION by William Manchester THE ANTIDOTE by Oliver Burkeman 1775 by Kevin Phillips THE RICHARD BURTON DIARIES by Richard Burton THE GREAT CHARLES DICKENS SCANDAL by Michael Slater THE CARBON CRUNCH by Dieter Helm MENACHEM BEGIN by Avi Shilon THE INJUSTICE SYSTEM by Clive Stafford Smith THE PATRIARCH by David Nasaw A LITTLE HISTORY OF SCIENCE by William Bynum IRON CURTAIN by Anne Applebaum JOHN KEATS by Nicholas Roe THE ANNOTATED AND ILLUSTRATED DOUBLE HELIX by James D. Watson CUSTER by Larry McMurtry ELSEWHERE by Richard Russo HALLUCINATIONS by Oliver Sacks THE GUERRILLA FACTORY by Tony Schwalm HOW TO CREATE A MIND by Ray Kurzweil REPORTING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR by Todd Andrlik THROUGH THE WINDOW by Julian Barnes