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Fabio Geda
In the Sea There Are Crocodiles
Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari
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Eli Saslow
Ten Letters
The Stories Americans Tell Their President
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What would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy? In early 2002, Enaiatollah Akbaris village in Afghanistan fell prey to the Taliban. His mother, fearing for his life, led him across the border. So began Enaiats remarkable and often punishing five-year ordealtrekking across bitterly cold mountains, riding in the suffocating false bottom of a truck, steering an inflatable raft in violent watersthrough Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and Greece, before he eventually sought political asylum in Italy, all before he turned fifteen years old. ANCHOR | 978-0-307-74382-4 | 224 PAGES | $14.95 EXAM PRICE $3.00 Here Fabio Geda delivers the moving true story of Enaiats extraordinary will to survive and of SELECTED BY: Brookhaven College the accidental brotherhood he found with the boys he met along the way. In the Sea There Every so often a book comes along that is an Are Crocodiles brilliantly captures Enaiats enabsolute gift to the world. This is one such book. gaging voice and humor, in what is a truly epic Laura Fitzgerald, author of Dreaming in English story of hope and survival. Its sobering and heart lifting to see the stoical Extraordinary. . . . A gripping, strangely determination and achievement of someone who makes our world look like paradise. This little gem, sweet tale. . . . Reading of Akbaris efforts beautifully and unobtrusively translated, will raise to find a better lifealone and at an age when children in our country cant even drive tears of sorrow and joy. yetwill leave you shaken, but his resilient joy The Independent (London) leavens the story. The Washington Post
Every day, President Obama reads ten representative letters among the thousands he receives from citizens across the land. The letters come from people of all ages, walks of life, and political points of view. Some are heartbreaking, some angry, some hopeful. In this inspiring and powerful look at the issues facing Americans today, reporter Eli Saslow creates vivid portraits of the lives of ten citizens who corresponded with President Obama. Their letters, and the presidents handwritten responses, tell of the personal struggles behind everything from health care to immigration to war. One mother writes to express her fears about the well-being of a son currently deployed in Afghanistan. A young girl in Kentucky shares her frustrations while attending one of the countrys worst schools, and the president relies on her story in his push for education reform. What these ten letters reveal about the relationship between a president and the people he governs is deeply affecting, and what ultimately emerges from within the stories is the incredible endurance and optimism of the American people. A luminous book. . . . Saslow has found his way around the cynicism and superficiality of Washington politics to show the profound real-life connections between the White House and the people. David Maraniss, author of
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Saslow has a feel for the tender spots in these peoples stories. . . . The plainspokenness, decency and human dignity they display leave a lasting impression. The Washington Post
FABIO GEDA is an Italian novelist who works with children under duress. He writes for several Italian magazines and newspapers and teaches creative writing at Scuola Holden, the Italian school of storytelling in T urin. This is his first book to be translated into English.
ELI SASLOW has been a staff writer at The Washington Post since 2004. He covered the 2008 presidential campaign, wrote profile stories about Barack Obama and then chronicled the presidents life inside the White House. Saslow has won multiple awards for news and feature writing. He lives in Washington with his wife and daughter .
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ENAIATOLLAH AKBARI graduated from high school

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in the spring of 2011 and plans to attend university in Italy while continuing to support his mother and siblings, who are now living in Pakistan. He dreams of having the chance to return one day to a democratic and peaceful Afghanistan.
Peggielene Bartels and Eleanor Herman

King Peggy
An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
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Christopher McDougall
Born to Run
A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Isolated by Mexicos deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In this riveting narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher McDougall sets out to discover their secrets and mans history as runnerfrom prehistoric persistence hunting to modern day ultra-marathons. In the process, he takes his readers from science labs at Harvard to sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to a climactic race in the Copper Canyons that pits Americas best ultra-runners against the tribe. Compelling. . . . Entertaining. . . . [McDougall] uses an extended portrait of one of the worlds least-known cultures, the Tarahumara Indians of Mexicos Copper Canyons, to put modern American running under an exacting magnifying glass. San Francisco Chronicle McDougall recounts his quest to understand near superhuman ultra-runners with adrenaline pumped writing, humor and a distinct voice. . . . [H]e never lets go from his impassioned mantra that humans were born to run. NPR The book is wonderful. Its funny, insightful, captivating, and a great and beautiful discovery. There are lessons here that translate to realms beyond running. The book inspires anyone who seeks to live more fully.
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King Peggy is the charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on Ghanas central coast. In rising to the new challenge of governing 7,000 souls, Peggy is herself transformed, from an ordinary secretary to the heart and hope of her community. Upon arriving for her crowning ceremony in beautiful Otuam, she discovers the dire reality: theres no running water, no doctor, and no high school, and many of the village elders are stealing the towns funds. To make matters worse, her uncle (the late king) sits in a morgue awaiting a proper funeral in the royal palace, which is in ruins. The longer she waits to bury him, the more DOUBLEDAY | 978-0-385-53432-1 | 352 PAGES | $25.95 she risks incurring the wrath of her ancestors. In EXAM PRICE $13.00 the end, a deeply traditional African town has WWW.KINGPEGGY.COM been uplifted by the ambitions of its headstrong, SELECTED BY: Russell Sage College decidedly modern female king. Theres an unlikely new leader in West Africa. . . . King Peggy is a wonderous tale of how a Bartels had to quickly and forcefully let tribal elders woman rose to great heights in circumstances know that despite being far away and female, she one would never dream of, in a place where most had every intention of taking her position seriof us cannot imagine living. Compelling and ouslyand being taken seriously in turn. NPR heartwarming, it is a most enjoyable and absorbing read. Deborah Rodriguez, author of Kabul
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Born to Run is a fascinating and inspiring true adventure story, based on humans pushing themselves to the limits. A brilliantly written account of extraordinary endurance, far from home. . . . Its destined to become a classic.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes, author of Mad, Bad and Dangerous To Know
In the moving story of Peggielene Bartels, all of us can feel a connection to our ancestors, and a reminder of the good that can come from courageously embracing unexpected responsibilities.
Jeffrey Zaslow, author of The Girls from Ames
PEGGIELENE BARTELS was born in Ghana in 1953

and moved to Washington, D.C., in her early twenties to work at Ghanas embassy In 2008, she was chosen to be king of . Otuam, a Ghanaian village. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, still works at the embassy and spends several weeks , each year in Ghana.
CHRISTOPHER McDOUGALL is a former war correspondent for the Associated Press and is now a contributing editor for Mens Health. A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside and Mens Journal. He does his own running among the Amish farms around his home in rural Pennsylvania.
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ELEANOR HERMAN is the author of three books of womens history. Her profile of Peggy was a cover story for The Washington Post Magazine. She lives in McLean, Virginia.
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Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D. and Kathryn Bowers

Zoobiquity
What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing
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Why cant our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. Blending his years of research with findings of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists, Haidt draws a map of the moral domain, starting with moral intuition and the origins of morality. Haidt explains that humans are fundamentally groupish, and it is our groupishness that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conPANTHEON | 978-0-307-37790-6 | 448 PAGES | $28.95 servatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation. EXAM PRICE $14.50 The Righteous Mind, is a tour de forcea brave, WWW.RIGHTEOUSMIND.COM brilliant and eloquent exploration of the most Haidt is looking for more than victory. Hes looking important issues of our time. It will challenge the way you think about liberals and conservatives, for wisdom. Thats what makes The Righteous Mind well worth reading. . . . A landmark contri- atheism and religion, good and evil. This is the book bution to humanitys understanding of itself. that everyone will be talking about. Paul Bloom,
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This elegantly written book has far-reaching implications for anyone interested in politics, religion, or the many controversies that divide modern societies. If you want to know why you hold your moral beliefs, and why many people disagree with you, read this book.
Simon Baron-Cohen, Cambridge University, author of The Science of Evil
In 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkeys sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress. It was a syndrome identical to a human condition but one that veterinarians called by a different nameand treated in innovative ways. This remarkable medical parallel led NattersonHorowitz to search for other connections between the human and animal worlds, and her findings were astonishing. Dinosaurs suffered from brain cancer. Koalas catch chlamydia. Reindeer seek narcotic escape in hallucinogenic mushrooms. Joining forces with science journalist Kathryn Bowers, Natterson-Horowitz employs fascinating case studies and meticulous scholarship to present a revelatory understanding of what animals can teach us about the human body and mind. Both authoritative and accessible, this provocative book encourages us to see our essential connection to all living beings. Illuminating. . . . This very engaging book is difficult to put down. It provides lots of information in an easy-to-understand manner that doesnt feel overwhelming, perhaps because of the liberal use of humor throughout. Reading Zoobiquity gave this reader a totally new perspective on his furred and feathered neighbors.
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The connections we share with the rest of life on our planet are a source of beauty and, in Natterson-Horowitz and Bowers luminous new account, the inspiration for an emerging and powerful approach to human health. Zoobiquity is a book that explodes barriers and myths all in the purpose of bettering the human condition.
Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish
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JONATHAN HAIDT is the Thomas Cooley Professor of

Ethical Leadership at New York Universitys Stern School of Business. His previous book is The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. He lives in New York City .
BARBARA NATTERSON-HOROWITZ, M.D.,

earned her degrees at Harvard and the University of California, San Francisco. She is a cardiology professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and serves on the medical advisory board of the Los Angeles Zoo as a cardiovascular consultant. Her writing has appeared in many scientific and medical publications.
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KATHRYN BOWERS was a staff editor at The Atlantic and a writer and producer at CNN International. She has edited and written both popular and academic books and teaches a course at UCLA on medical narrative.
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Half the Sky
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our eras most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope. Half the Sky helps us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing womens potential. Kristof and WuDunn make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; its also the best strategy for fighting poverty. Urgent. . . . Passionate. . . . Compelling. . . . Half the Sky is a grab-the-reader-by-the-lapels wake-up call. Bill Williams, The Boston Globe Half the Sky is a passionate and persuasive plea to all of us to rise up and say No more! to the seventeenth-century abuses to girls and women in the twenty-first-century world. This is a book that will pierce your heart and arouse your conscience. It is a powerful piece of journalism by two masters of the craft who are tireless in their pursuit of one of the most shameful conditions of our time. Tom Brokaw
David Eagleman
Incognito
The Secret Lives of the Brain
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In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you become consciously aware of danger ahead? Why do you hear your name being mentioned in a conversation that you didnt think you were listening to? How is your brain like a conflicted democracy engaged in civil war? Why is it so difficult to keep a secret? Taking in brain damage, plane spotting, dating, drugs, beauty, infidelity, synesthesia, criminal law, artificial intelligence, and visual illusions, Incognito is a thrilling subsurface exploration of the mind and all its contradictions. Incognito proposes a grand new account of the relationship between consciousness and the brain. It is full of dazzling ideas, as it is chockablock with facts and instances. The New York Observer Fascinating. . . . Eagleman has the ability to turn hard science and jargon into interesting and relatable prose, illuminating the minds processes with clever analogies and metaphors.
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Although Incognito is fast-paced, mind-bending stuff, its a book for regular folks. Eagleman does a brilliant job refining heavy science into a compelling read. He is a gifted writer.
Houston Chronicle
Incognito reads like a series of fascinating vignettes, offering plenty of pauses for selfreflection. Eaglemans anecdotes are funny and easily tie to the concepts he explains. Moreover, his enthusiasm for the subject is obvious and contagious. Spectrum Culture
Eagleman engagingly sums up recent discoveries about the unconscious processes that dominate our mental life. The New York Times Book Review
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF AND SHERYL WU DUNN

are the first married couple to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism for their coverage of China as New York Times correspondents. They received the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement and many other prizes including the George Polk and Overseas Press Club awards.
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DAVID EAGLEMAN is a neuroscientist at Baylor

College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action as well as the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. His scientific research has been published in journals from Science to Nature, and his neuroscience books include Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, Why the Net Matters, and the forthcoming Live-Wired. He is also the author of the internationally bestselling book of fiction Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives.
Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of Americas Great Migration
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize Winner of the Stephen E. Ambrose Oral History Award Winner of the Sidney Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
Raymond Bonner
Anatomy of Injustice
A Murder Case Gone Wrong
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The Warmth of Other Suns is epic in its reach and in its structure. Told in a voice that echoes the magic cadences of Toni Morrison or the folk wisdom of Zora Neale Hurstons collected oral histories, Wilkersons book pulls not just the expanse of the migration into focus but its overall impact on politics, literature, music, sportsin the nation and the world.
Lynell George, Los Angeles Times
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold and remarkable work, a superb account of an unrecognized immigration within our own land. [A] deeply affecting, finely crafted and heroic book. . . . Wilkerson has taken on one of the most important demographic upheavals of the past centurya phenomenon whose dimensions and significance have eluded many a scholarand told it through the lives of three people no one has ever heard of. . . . This is narrative nonfiction, lyrical and tragic and fatalist. The story exposes; the story moves; the story ends. What Wilkerson urges, finally, isnt argument at all; its compassion.
Jill Lepore, The New Yorker
Anatomy of Injustice is Pulitzer Prize winner Raymond Bonners moving, suspenseful, and vital contribution to our nations ongoing, increasingly important debate about inequality and the death penalty. In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. Although only loosely connected to the victim, Elmore was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. He had been on death row for eleven years when a young attorney named Diana Holt first learned of his case, and would spend the next decade fighting on Elmores behalf. With the exemplary moral commitment and tenacious investigation that have distinguished his reporting career, Bonner follows Holts battle to save Elmores life and shows us how his case is a textbook example of what can go wrong in the American justice system. He reviews police work, evidence gathering, jury selection, work of courtappointed lawyers, latitude of judges, iniquities in the law, prison informants, and the appeals process. Throughout, the actions and motivations of both unlikely heroes and shameful villains in our justice system are vividly revealed. Accomplished and meticulously researched. . . . Masterful. Bonner builds the story, and his argument, carefully, rarely editorializing, mixing in a prcis of capital punishment in the United States. . . . Bonners book is an important addition to the body of evidence against the death penalty.
The Boston Globe
Most of us Americans dont have a clue about how the criminal court system really operates and we need a good writer like Bonner to take us through, step by step. But be warned: If you have pressing duties waiting, dont begin reading this book. This is seductive storytelling at its best. Sister Helen Prejean,
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ISABEL WILKERSON won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for

Feature Writing for her reporting as Chicago bureau chief of The New York Times. The award made her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African American to win for individual reporting. She is currently Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University During . the Great Migration, her parents journeyed from Georgia and southern Virginia to Washington, D.C., where she was born and reared.
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RAYMOND BONNER practiced law for a decade and taught at the University of California, Davis School of Law. He later became an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, where he was a member of a Pulitzer Prizewinning team in 1999. He is the author of Weakness and Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador, which received the Robert F Kennedy Book Award and . Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy, which received the Cornelius Ryan Award from the Overseas Press Club and the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism.
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Avi Steinberg
Running the Books
The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
While Avi Steinbergs classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing. Seeking direction, Steinberg takes a job as a librarian in a tough Boston prison. Running the Books is a trenchant exploration of prison culture and an entertaining tale of one young mans earnest attempt to find his place in the world. Hilarious enough to make you want to read its lines to anyone who happens to be around, and profound enough to have you care deeply about many of the men and women whose crimes have brought them to Bostons Suffolk County House of Correction.
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Jim Yardley
Brave Dragons
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
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Former New York Times Beijing bureau chief Jim Yardley tells the wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic attempt to right its fortunes by hiring a former NBA coach. What follows is a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals Chinas ambivalent relationship with the West. Rollicking. . . . Lively and often hilarious. . . . Yardleys tale resonates far beyond sports. . . . He manages to capture, in touchingly human detail, the essence of a nation in transition. The Washington Post Brave Dragons has all the ingredients of a farce: larger-than-life characters, sudden plot twists, and dont-let-the-door-hit-you-on-the-way-out moments. But Jim Yardley sees the bigger picture: In many ways, basketball is a metaphor for the emergence of China as an economic power and its relationship with the rest of the world. The Seattle Times
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Heartbreaking and entertaining. . . . Steinbergs compassion for those he mentored clearly comes through. Yet, this is far from a preachy memoir on prison reform. Its a young mans blundering, but touching, journey to find a place in the world. Fortunately, he makes us laugh andsometimes cryin the process. The Seattle Times
David K. Shipler
The Working Poor
Invisible in America
A powerful, humane study of American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty and take part in the American dream. The working poor ought to be an oxymoron, because no one who works should be impoverished. In this thoughtful assessment of poverty in twenty-first-century America, David Shipler shows why so many working Americans remain poor, and offers a powerful guide for how to resuscitate the American dream.
Robert B. Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor and author of Aftershock
Daniel L. Everett
Dont Sleep, There Are Snakes
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Part passionate memoir, part scientific exploration, Everetts life-changing tale is a riveting look into the nature of language, thought, and life itself. Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirah with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the small tribe of Amazonian Indians to Christianity. Everett quickly became obsessed with their language and its cultural and linguistic implications, becoming so impressed with their peaceful way of life that he instead devoted his life to the science of linguistics. A genuine and engrossing book that is both sharp and intuitive; it closes around you and reaches inside you, controlling your every thought and movement as you read it. . . . Impossible to forget.
Sacramento Book Review
This is one of those seminal books that every American should read and read now.
The New York Times Book Review
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Absorbing. . . . Shares its authors best traits: perseverance, insight, humor and humility. Both the Pirahs and their interpreter make splendid company. The Plain Dealer
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Jaron Lanier
You Are Not a Gadget
A Manifesto
Among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture, Jaron Lanier takes a provocative and cautionary look at the way the Internet is transforming our lives for better and for worse. He offers insight on everything from the origins of the Internets structure to its effects on our financial markets and social networking. A provocative and sure-to-be-controversial book. . . . Lucid, powerful and persuasive. It is necessary reading for anyone interested in how the Web and the software we use every day are reshaping culture and the marketplace.
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
John Vaillant
The Tiger
A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Outside a remote village in Russias far east a man-eating tiger is on the prowl, murdering people almost as if it has a vendetta. A team of trackers is dispatched to hunt down the tiger before it strikes again. They know the creature is cunning, injured, and starving, making it even more dangerous. As John Vaillant re-creates these extraordinary events, he gives us an unforgettable and masterful work of narrative nonfiction that combines a riveting portrait of a stark and mysterious region of the world and its people, with the natural history of natures most deadly predator. Few writers have taken such pains to understand their monsters, and few depict them in such arresting prose.
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At the bottom of Laniers cyber-tinkering is a fundamentally humanist faith in technology, a belief that wisely designed machines can bring us closer together by expanding the possibilities of creative self-expression. Ben Ehrenreich, Los Angeles Times
An extraordinary book, bringing vividly to life this rare and terrifying creature and the men who are setting their lives at stake every day in a barely civilized part of the world. This is a real-life adventure story that is rarely encountered. The Washington Times
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Brian Christian
The Most Human Human
What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive
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Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane

Design in Nature
How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
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A provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. The Most Human Human is immensely ambitious and bold, intellectually provocative, while at the same time entertaining and wittya delightful book about how to live a meaningful, thriving life.
Alan Lightman, author of Einsteins Dreams
An eye-opening inquest into human imagination, thought, conversation, love and deception. Who would have guessed that the best way to understand humanity was to study its imitators?
David Eagleman, author of Sum
Machines are getting so smart that it forces us to take a completely fresh look at what smart is, and at what human is. Brian Christian takes on this very weighty task, and somehow makes it fun.
David Shenk, author of The Genius in All of Us
This groundbreaking book takes the recurring patterns in naturetrees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning boltsand reveals how a single principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world. Written in an easy style that achieves clarity without sacrificing complexity, Design in Nature is a paradigm-shifting book that will fundamentally transform our understanding of the world around us. Fascinating. . . . By reframing things as flow systems, they reveal how function determines form in everything from corporate hierarchies to Canada geese. Nature
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Bejan masterfully unifiesunder a deep common lawphysics, chemistry, biology, and even part of the social sciences. His treatment of natural design, flow systems, and complex order. . . is novel, powerful, and highly plausible. Massimo PiattelliPalmarini, co-author of What Darwin Got Wrong
Neil Shubin
Your Inner Fish
A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalikthe missing link that made headlines around the world in April 2006tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish is science writing at its finestenlightening, accessible, and told with irresistible enthusiasm. An entertaining and original book. Cleverly weaving together adventures in paleontology with very accessible science, Neil Shubin reveals the many surprising deep connections between our anatomy and those of fish, reptiles, and other creatures. You will never look at your body in the same way again.
Sean B. Carroll, author of The Making of the Fittest
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Richard Fortey
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms
The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
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Written in buoyant, sparkling prose, Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms is a fascinating chronicle of lifes history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms that have survived, almost unchanged, throughout time. Scattered across the globe, these remarkable plants and animals offer us a tantalizing glimpse of pivotal points in evolutionary history. These are not living fossils but rather a handful of tenacious creatures from days long gone. Reading this book is like stepping into the field with a man whos equal parts naturalist and poet. . . . His book is not only well built and witty but emotionally profound too. . . . An inducement to be as awake and observant as possible. The New York Times A lively writer with a penchant for slightly goofy jokes, a vast storehouse of arcane knowledge, and an inexhaustible fund of enthusiasm for his subject, Fortey is the perfect interpreter and guide to the marvels and mysteries of archaic existence.
The Boston Globe
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Global Weirdness
Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future
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Michio Kaku
The Physics of the Future
How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
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Written in clear, accessible prose, Global Weirdness is a fascinating new book that explains climate change to the layperson. Produced by Climate Central, Inc. a highly regarded independent, non-profit journalism and research organizationand reviewed by scientists the world over, Global Weirdness summarizes the science of climate change, explains what is likely to happen to the climate in the future, and lays out, in practical terms, what we can and cannot do to avoid further shifts. Illustrated throughout with clarifying graphics, Global Weirdness enhances our understanding of how climate change affects our daily lives. Slim and elegant . . . written in the kind of plain English of which Strunk and White would approve, that lays out what we know about climate change while hewing to the facts and taking great care to avoid bias and hysteria. The New York Times
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Space elevators. Internet-enabled contact lenses. Cars that fly by floating on magnetic fields. This is the stuff of science fictionits also daily life in the year 2100. Based on interviews with over three hundred of the worlds top scientists, here is the most authoritative and scientifically accurate description of the revolutionary developments taking place in medicine, computers, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, energy production, and astronautics. Synthesizing a vast amount of information, The Physics of the Future is a thrilling, wondrous ride through the next one hundred years of breathtaking scientific revolution. Mind-bending. . . . Fascinating. . . . Kaku has a gift for explaining incredibly complex concepts, on subjects as far-ranging as nanotechnology and space travel, in language the lay reader can grasp. . . . Engrossing.
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[Physics of the Future] has the ability to surprise and enthrall and frighten. The New York Times
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Margaret Atwood The Year of the Flood

Set in a visionary future, The Year of the Flood is at once a tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. By turns dark, tender, violent, and thoughtful, the book portrays the aftermath of a long predicted natural disaster that leaves the earth in ruins and a handful of survivors to navigate this strange new world. Leave it to Atwood to find humor in a post-apocalyptic world as she covertly, and brilliantly, addresses questions of how we need to live on an imperiled planet. Kansas City Star Atwood is funny and clever, such a good writer and real thinker. . . . The Year of the Flood isnt prophecy, but it is eerily possible.
Colson Whitehead Zone One

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[An] entertaining, often mesmerizing, consciousness-raising novel. . . . This is a work that amuses, informs, enlightens and, remarkably, also challenges its readers to be better persons.
San Antonio Express-News
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At once a chilling horror story and a literary novel by a contemporary master, Zone One is a dazzling portrait of modern civilization in all its wretched, shambling glory. After a pandemic has devastated the planet, Mark Spitz becomes a member of one of the three-person civilian sweeper units tasked with clearing lower Manhattan of the remaining feral zombies. Zone One unfolds over three surreal days in which Spitz is occupied with the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder (PASD), and the impossible task of coming to terms with a fallen world. [Zone One] resembles Cormac McCarthys The Road. . . . An intense meditation on the way we cope with disaster and the stubborn, often inexplicable, persistence of the human will to survive.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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A zombie story with brains. . . . [Whitehead is a] certifiably hip writer who can spin gore into macabre poetry. The Washington Post
Charles Yu How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to change the past. Thats where Charles Yu, time travel technician, steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When hes not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. The key to locating his father may be found in a book. Its called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and somewhere inside it is information that will help him. It may even save his life. Glittering layers of gorgeous and playful metascience-fiction. . . . Like [Douglas] Adams, Yu is very funny, usually proportional to the wildness of his inventions, but Yus sound and fury conceal (and construct) this novels dense, tragic, all-too-human heart. . . . A complex, brainy, genre-hopping joyride of a story. The New York Times Book Review [A] truly original novel. Charles Yu has built a strange, beautiful, intricate machine, with a pulse that carries as much blood as it does electricity.
Kevin Brockmeier, author of Brief History of the Dead
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Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus

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Winner of the Alex Award
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Behind the scenes of the magical, mysterious Le Cirque des Rves, a duel is under way between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into lovea deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker whenever they so much as brush hands. True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance. Part love story, part fable, and a knockout debut. . . . So sparklingly alive, youll swear the pages are breathing in your hands. . . . The Night Circus defies both genres and expectations. The Boston Globe
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Julie Otsuka When the Emperor Was Divine

Julie Otsuka paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracinationboth physical and emotionalof a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of viewthe mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train ride to the camp; the son in the desert encampment; the familys return to their home; and the bitter release of the father after more than four years in captivityshe has created a small tour de force, a novel of unrelenting economy and suppressed emotion. Exceptional. . . . Otsuka skillfully dramatizes a world suddenly foreign. . . . [Her] incantatory, unsentimental prose is the books greatest strength.
The New Yorker
David Malouf Ransom

David Maloufarguably Australias greatest living writergives us a stirring reimagination of one of the most famous passages in all of literature: Achilles rageful slaughter and desecration of Hector, and Priams attempt to ransom his sons body in Homers Iliad. A moving novel of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom tells the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war. Each mans sorrow must confront the others for surcease and resolution: a resolution more compelling to both than the demands of war. Ransom is a rich meditation on literary genre. . . . Embroidered with imaginative details that often reanimate familiar elements of the epic. . . . Like Euripides, Malouf has scrutinized the vast fabric of Homers story, looking for open spaces in the weave to insert his own design. The New Yorker Thrillingly profound. . . . Maloufs prose feels timelesslyric and direct in ways that recall the source material yet seem wholly contemporary.
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Michael Ondaatje The Cats Table

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Alan Lightman
Mr g
A Novel About the Creation
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Michael Ondaatjes stunning new novel about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood. In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the cats tableas far from the captains table as can bewhere he befriends two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship crosses the Indian Ocean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another and together they spy on a shackled prisoner, his crime and fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever. Enthralling and poignant. . . . A captivating reminder that it can take decades to comprehend the past, let alone to make amends with it.
The Seattle Times
From Alan Lightman, author of Einsteins Dreams, comes a playful and profound new novel that combines science, theology, and moral philosophy to tell the story of creation as narrated by God. With echoes of Calvino, Rushdie, and Saramago, Mr g is a stunningly imaginative work that celebrates the tragic and joyous nature of existence on the grandest possible scale. A charming, comic explanation of how The Maker might have created the cosmos. . . . If your philosophy allows for the possibility that science and faith in a creator can coexist, youll enjoy this clever and witty creation. The Boston Globe A soulful riff on the birth and eventual demise of our universe. . . . Lightman the humanist allows room for the compatibility of rationality with spirituality and mystery, while Lightman the scientist plays devils advocate with the partisans of Genesis, blinding them with logic. The New York Times Book Review
To capture truly any moment of life is an achievement of art. To find captured, in a single work, such disparate experiencesof youth and age, of action and reflection, of innocence and experienceis a rare pleasure.
Claire Messud, The New York Review of Books
Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. At fifteen, Christophers carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbors dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing. Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer, and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face-toface with the dissolution of his parents marriage. As Christopher tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, the narrative draws readers into the workings of Christophers mind. Moving. . . . Think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sackss real-life stories.
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go

From Booker Prizewinning author Kazuo Ishiguro, this is a devastating novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Years later, with the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhoodand about their lives now. A gothic tour de force. . . . What Mr. Ishiguro has done so artfully in these pages is not only assemble a chilling jigsaw puzzle, but also create a distinct fictional world. The New York Times Book Review An elegaic, deceptively lovely book. . . . What begins as a mystery with futuristic undertones ends up an engrossing meditation on the here and now. Newsweek
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Jennifer Egan
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
An enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village for re-education during Chinas infamous Cultural Revolution. There the two friends meet the daughter of the local tailor and discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation. As they flirt with the seamstress and secretly devour these banned works, the two friends find transit from their grim surroundings to worlds they never imagined. A funny, touching, sly and altogether delightful novel . . . about the power of art to enlarge our imaginations. The Washington Post Book World Poetic and affecting. . . . The descriptions of life in this strangest of times and places are so riveting that the reader longs for more.
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Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of selfdestruction and redemption. Egan has accomplished the tricky feat of using metafiction techniques without sacrificing old-fashioned storytelling. . . . A Visit from the Goon Squad has a circuitous structure that seems almost designed for our Internet-rewired brains.
The Wall Street Journal
A rich and unforgettable novel about decay and endurance, about individuals in a world as it changes around them. . . . [Egan] is one of the most talented writers today. The New York Review of Books The smartest book you can get your hands on.
Los Angeles Times
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Marjane Satrapi The Complete Persepolis

Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapis bestselling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapis unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecomingboth sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up. Youve never seen anything like Persepolisthe intimacy of a memoir, the irresistibility of a comic book, and the political depth of the conflict between fundamentalism and democracy. Marjane Satrapi may have given us a new genre. Gloria Steinem
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Dave Eggers Zeitoun

Imagine Charles Dickens, his sentimentality in check but his journalistic eyes wide open, roaming New Orleans after it was buried by Hurricane Katrina. . . . Fifty years from now, when people want to know what happened to this once-great city during a shameful episode of our history, they will still be talking about a family named Zeitoun. The New York Times Book Review Zeitoun offers a transformative experience to anyone open to it, for the simple reason that it is . . . an adventure story, a tale of suffering and redemption, almost biblical in its simplicity, the trials of a good man who believes in God and happens to have a canoe. Anyone who cares about America, where it is going and where it almost went, before it caught itself, will want to read this thrilling, heartbreaking, wonderful book.
Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun-Times
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Josh Neufeld
A.D.
New Orleans After the Deluge
A.D. is a masterful portrait of a city under siege. Cartoonist Josh Neufeld depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina. As beautiful as it is poignant, A.D. presents a city in chaos and shines a bright, profoundly human light on the tragedies and triumphs that took place within it. A.D. is one of the best-ever examples of comics reportage, and one of the clearest portraits of post-Katrina New Orleans yet published.
Dave Eggers, author of Zeitoun and What Is the What
Rick Bragg All Over but the Shoutin

This moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who escaped poverty in northern Alabama to become a Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter for The New York Times. At the center of this soaring memoir is Braggs mother, who picked other peoples cotton so that her children wouldnt have to live on welfare alone. All Over but the Shoutin is a work of art. . . . I thought of Melville, I thought of Faulkner. . . . By explaining his life to the world, Rick Bragg explained part of my life to me. You feel things in every line this man writes. His sentences bleed on you.
Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides
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Josh Neufeld is a master storyteller. A.D. is intimate and yet seismic in its scope. Through six finely drawn lives, we end up with new understanding of both devastation and redemption. His art takes us to the depth of the humanity of those we cherish. Cornel West, author of Race Matters
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A record of a life that has been harrowing, cruel and yet triumphant, written so beautifully he makes the book a marvel. Los Angeles Times
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Dave Eggers What Is the What

What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, who, along with thousands of other childrenthe so-called Lost Boyswas forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man. Told with humor, humanity, and bottomless compassion for his subject. . . . It is impossible to read this book and not be humbled, enlightened, transformed.
Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner
Wangari Maathai
Unbowed
A Memoir
The winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize recounts her life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Maathais Green Belt Movement has shown the world that good governance and the wise use of resources can bring peace and create sustainable surroundings free from fear, famine, and drought. Maathai tells her remarkable story with characteristic simplicity, generosity, and strength of spirit. Wangari Maathais memoir is direct, honest, and beautifully writtena gripping account of modern Africas trials and triumphs, a universal story of courage, persistence, and success against great odds in a noble cause. President Bill Clinton [Maathais] story provides uplifting proof of the power of perseveranceand of the power of principled, passionate people to change their countries and inspire the world. The Washington Post
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A testament to the triumph of hope over experience, human resilience over tragedy and disaster.
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Edwidge Danticat
Brother, Im Dying
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Cheryl Strayed
Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Deeply affecting. . . . Danticat brings the lyric language and emotional clarity of her remarkable novel The Dew Breaker to bear on the story of her own family, a story which, like so much of her fiction, embodies the painful legacy of Haitis violent history, demonstrating the myriad ways in which the public and the private, the political and the personal, intersect in the lives of that countrys citizens and exiles. The New York Times Powerful. . . . Danticat employs the charms of a storyteller and the authority of a witness to evoke the political forces and personal sacrifices behind her parents journey to this country and her uncles decision to stay behind.
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Following the death of her mother and the destruction of her marriage Cheryl Strayed resolved to hike the Pacific Crest Trailand to do it alone. Though she had no experience as a long-distance hiker, the journey held the promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. Told with sparkling warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her. [Strayed] reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe, physical and psychic hardship, and loss.
Mira Bartk, author of The Memory Palace
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The clarity of Ms. Strayeds prose, and thus of her person, makes her story, in its quiet way, nearly as riveting an adventure narrative as Jon Krakauers Into the Wild. The New York Times
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Will Schwalbe
The End of Your Life Book Club
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Terry Tempest Williams Finding Beauty in a Broken World

Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Terry Tempest Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several years to include a reconfiguration of family and community in her search for a deeper understanding of what it means to be human in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation. How a book could be this gentle and this heartbreaking simultaneously I do not know. But over a simple trajectory of mosaic to prairie dog to contemporary genocide, Terry Tempest Williams leads us with methodical accuracy into the devastations and delights of now. John DAgata, author of Halls of Fame Passionate. . . . [Finding Beauty in a Broken World] will not leave the reader with the thought all is well but with the challenged belief that the beauty in all life can beand must beidentified, believed in and brought forth. New Thought
L E S S O N S
A profoundly moving testament to the power of reading in our lives. Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatments when her son Will asks her what shes reading. The conversation they have grows into tradition: soon they are reading the same books so they can have something to talk about in the hospital waiting room, choosing books that range from classic to popular, from fantastic to spiritual, and we hear their passion for reading and their love for each other in their intimate and searching discussions. I was so moved by this marvelous book. . . . It is a true meditation on what books can do.
Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with the Amber Eyes

This book is a passionate, purposeful and elegant guide to human existence. Living life, learning life and loving life. . . . Mary Anne and Will have given us an exquisite gift.
David Rohde, co-author of A Rope and a Prayer
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Harold S. Kushner Living a Life that Matters

Drawing on the stories of his own congregants, on literature, current events and, above all, on the biblical story of Jacobthe worldly trickster who evolves into a man of GodHarold Kushner addresses some of the most persistent dilemmas of the human condition: Why do decent people so often violate their moral standards? How can we pursue justice without giving in to the lure of revenge? How can we turn our relationships with family and friends into genuine sources of meaning? Persuasive and sympathetic, filled with humanity and warmth, Living a Life That Matters is a deeply rewarding book. A valuable companion. . . . A set of guideposts for living a useful and fulfilled life, no matter what the future holds. The Boston Globe Full of . . . great stories and subtle wisdom. This is a book you dont want to put down or allow to be too far from you in times of crisis.
Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul
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George Prochnik
In Pursuit of Silence
Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise
In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe. Listening to doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet. A brilliant, far-reaching exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing war between them, In Pursuit of Silence is an important book that shows us the benefits of decluttering our sonic world. George Prochnik has gifted us with an impassioned, searching meditation on the antique virtues of silence, the evolving natural history of our most overtaxed sense, the etiology of sound in the modern world and the discrete joys of earbud-free listening.
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Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic
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[A] genial and informative study of the noisiness of modern life. The New Republic
Tali Sharot
The Optimism Bias
A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
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Leonard Mlodinow
Subliminal
How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
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Using cutting-edge science, neuroscientist Tali Sharot investigates the bias toward optimism that exists on a neural level in our brains and plays a major part in determining how we live our lives. Optimism is in part a self-fulfilling prophecy: it allows us to attempt things we might not otherwise try and to imagine ourselves succeeding. At the same time, it is, as Tali puts it, a cognitive illusionthe Great Deceptionthat can prevent us from anticipating the negative outcomes that lie ahead. We see the world not as it is but as wed like it to be. Thats not always the best recipe for dealing with reality. But if you read her story, youll get a better grip on how we function in it. Time An intelligently written look into why most people take an optimistic view of life. . . . [A] fascinating trip into why we prefer to remain hopeful about our future and ourselves.The New York Journal of Books
A startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world. Leonard Mlodinow, author of The Drunkards Walk, explores the complexities of the subliminal self, increasing our understanding of how the human mind works and how we interact with friends, strangers, spouses, and coworkers. In the process he changes our view of ourselves and the world around us. With the same deft touch he showed in The Drunkards Walk, Mlodinow probes the subtle, automatic, and often unnoticed influences on our behavior.
Daniel J. Simons, professor of psychology, University of Illinois
Think you know the whys and hows of your choices? Follow Mlodinow on a gorgeous journey that will make you think again.
David Eagleman, author of Incognito
Mlodinow never fails to make science both accessible and entertaining.

Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time
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Daniel Gilbert Stumbling on Happiness

Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had expected. Why? As Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains, when people try to imagine what the future will hold, they make some basic and consistent mistakes. Stumbling on Happiness uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why were so lousy at predicting what will make us happyand what we can do about it. This is a psychological detective story about one of the great mysteries of our lives. If you have even the slightest curiosity about the human condition, you ought to read it. Trust me.
Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point
Richard Wiseman
59 Seconds
Change Your Life in Under a Minute
From mood to memory, persuasion to procrastination, resilience to relationships, Wiseman outlines the research supporting the new science of rapid change and, with clarity and infectious enthusiasm, describes how these quirky, sometimes counterintuitive techniques can be effortlessly incorporated into studentss lives every day. Richard Wiseman has distilled decades of experiment, theory and analysis in behavioral science into 59 Seconds. The result of his labors is a witty, scientifically accurate, and astonishingly powerful owners manual for the human brain.
Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish
Stumbling on Happiness is an absolutely fantastic book that will shatter your most deeply held convictions about how your own mind works. . . . You wont know for sure until you have read this book.
Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics
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Wiseman is a brilliant name for a psychologist, and this book proves the professor is not misnamed. . . . [59 Seconds] contains dozens of fascinating and useful nuggets, and they all have science on their side. The Independent (London)
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Saul Frampton
When I Am Playing with My Cat, How Do I Know That She Is Not Playing with Me?
Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life
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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

The Great Partnership
Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning
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This delightful introduction to the life and works of Michel de Montaigne explains the enduring relevance of this sixteenth-century genius. Through essays on subjects as varied as friendship, war, travel, cannibalism, and even the oft-neglected thumb, Montaigne conveys a sense of wonder and curiosity, displaying a zeal for life that has captivated readers for more than four hundred years. Excellent. . . . Montaigne celebrates life in all its glorious messiness, while reminding us that nothing matters more than human connectedness. . . . An endlessly digressive writer, Montaigne is as much raconteur as moralist, and his book offers some of the best after-dinner conversation in the world. You can never be sure what this French humanist will say next. . . . Frampton approaches Montaigne from unexpected tangents. . . . Where [he] excels is in his sharply intelligent and sharply phrased insights.
Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
An impassioned, erudite, thoroughly researched, and beautifully reasoned book from one of the most admired religious thinkers of our time that argues that not only are science and religion compatible, but that they complement each otherand that the world needs both. Sacks offers an intelligent, optimistic credo that allows for the happy coexistence of science and religion. . . . For those people who know that science is right but still want to believe, this cake-and-eat-it argument is made with erudition, scholarship, and charm.
The Times (London)
The learned and humane Sacks normally speaks from within the Jewish tradition. But here he is much more inclusive, drawing from Judaism, Christianity and, he claims, Islam. . . . His erudition is extensive [and he] is engaging and thought-provoking throughout. His exploration of the deep differences between classical Greek and Hebrew thought is quite brilliant. . . . Without a doubt he is a wise thinker and a national treasure. The Independent (London)
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Karen Armstrong Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

One of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern worldauthor of such acclaimed books as A History of God, Islam, and Buddhanow gives us an impassioned and practical book that can help us make the world a more compassionate place. In this straightforward and thought-provoking book, Karen Armstrong sets out a program that can lead us toward a more compassionate life, teaching us that becoming a compassionate human being is a lifelong project and a journey filled with rewards. Rich with wisdom and provocative ideas that stimulate deeper thinking and encourage individuals to identify a particular contribution to the global effort. . . . Chock-full of practical ideas for examining ones life and modifying aims and behaviors.
The Christian Science Monitor
Mark Matousek
Ethical Wisdom
The Search for a Moral Life
NOW IN PAPERBACK
In this insightful and important book, Mark Matousek examines a question that has plagued humanity since the days of the first primitive tribes: What makes one man good and another evil? Drawing on the latest scientific research and interviews with social scientists, spiritual leaders, ex-cons, altruists, and philosophers, Mark Matousek examines morality from a scientific, sociological, and anthropological standpoint, making this book both utilitarian and fun. Mark Matousek guides us through a revolution in ethical science with deft, thought-provoking style. Ethical Wisdom is a riveting, fun, and insightful tour of lifes meaning and purpose, essential reading for anyone drawn to the query, How ought we to live?
Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence
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Leaning on the wisdom of disparate faiths and belief systems, Armstrong lays out a pluralistic and, ultimately, secular way to spread compassion thats easy to believe in. The Washington Post
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Ethical Wisdom is a beautiful work. Bringing together the best of todays scientific research with a plainspoken forthrightness, Ethical Wisdom does what few books of this type can do: it inspires.
Mark Epstein, M.D., author of Thoughts Without a Thinker
H I S T O R Y
Charles C. Mann
1493
Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
NOW IN PAPERBACK
Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird
Some Instructions on Writing and Life
An honest and humorous step-by-step guide on how to write and how to manage the writers life. From Getting Started, with Short Assignments, through Shitty First Drafts, Character, Plot, and Dialogue to How Do You Know When Youre Done? Lamott encourages, instructs, and inspires. Ive used this book over and over. Its one of the few books on writing Ill have anything to do with. The best thing it does for students is to make them feel that they are not alone in their struggles to write. Often they will come to me after finishing the book and say, I never knew anyone else felt this way. Susan Perabo, Assistant Professor,
Dickinson College
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Charles C. Manns deeply engaging history of how European settlements shaped the world after the voyages of Christopher Columbus, shows how the post-Columbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico City center of the world. In the wake of his groundbreaking book 1491 Charles Mann has once again produced a brilliant and riveting work that will forever change the way we see the world. Mann shows how the ecological collision of Europe and the Americas transformed virtually every aspect of human history.
David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z
Fascinating and complex, exemplary in its union of meaningful fact with good storytelling, 1493 ranges across continents and centuries to explain how the world we inhabit came to be.
The Washington Post
A gift to all of us mortals who write or ever wanted to write. . . . Sidesplittingly funny, patiently wise and alternately cranky and kinda reveille to get off our duffs and start writing now, while we still can. The Seattle Times
SELECTED BY: Marquette University
Jill Lepore
The Mansion of Happiness
A History of Life and Death
NEW
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Several Short Sentences About Writing
NEW
Renowned Harvard scholar Jill Lepores strikingly original and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. As much a meditation on the present as an excavation of the past, The Mansion of Happiness is delightful, learned, and altogether beguiling. Written with sardonic wit and penetrating intelligence, The Mansion of Happiness is a fascinating and startlingly original guide to the ways in which the human life-cycle has been imagined, manipulated, managed, marketed, and debased in modern times. . . . A fast-paced, hilarious, angry, poignant, and richly illuminating book.
Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve
Drawing on years of experience as a writer and teacher of writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg offers an indispensable and unique book that will give students a clear understanding of how to think about what they do when they write and how to improve the quality of their writing. Having read Several Short Sentences About Writing, I do not think that it would be possible to not have this book on hand. . . . No other book, old or new, is as well reasoned as this, as entertaining or as wise. . . . Indeed, no other book is as filled with as much grounded, practical advice for putting words to the paper or electronic page or gives better, more helpful exercises. . . . Best book on writing. Ever.
New York Journal of Books
Lepore has a brilliant way of selecting just the right historical detail to illuminate a larger point. . . . The most valuable lesson here is that of impermanence. Everything changes. And although, as Lepore writes, its best to have a plan, as her multifaceted, sometimes dizzying joyride of a book reveals, the next roll of dice could, in fact, change everything. The Boston Sunday Globe
Paperback Available March 2013
An exceptionally interesting and useful book about writing. There have been good books on grammar and style, some classics, but none to compare to this one for understanding where sentences come from in the first place, where their vitality is found, and what distinguishes their energy, their authenticity, and their prospects for life after birth.
Thomas McGuane, author of Driving on the Rim
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Tobias Wolff Old School

Tobias Wolff gives us his first novel about a boy determined to fit in at a New England prep school whose mystique and tradition are rooted in Literature. Old School is as much about the shaping of character as it is about the shaping of a writer and exposes the kind of classbased phoniness that Holden Caulfield so famously detested. . . .Wolff again proves himself a writer of the highest order: part storyteller, part philosopher, someone deeply engaged in asking hard questions that take a lifetime to resolve.
Carmela Ciuraru, Los Angeles Times
Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon
A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid OShaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammetts coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has captivated readers since 1930.
SELECTED BY: Marywood University; St. Catharine College; University of Southern Mississippi
A compact marvel of a book, with its tale of a paradise gained and lost, its study of a young mans emerging character and mind, and its look at the subtlest workings of class-consciousness and prejudice in an idyllic, ideal-driven setting.
Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times
SELECTED BY: Brandeis University; Davidson College; Ohio State University; Roger Williams University; Santa Clara University; SUNY New Paltz
Ernest J. Gaines
A Lesson Before Dying
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Naguib Mahfouz
The Thief and the Dogs
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Translated by Trevor Le Gassick and M. M. Badawi
Naguib Mahfouzs haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid psychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story. After four years in prison, the skilled young thief Said Mahran emerges bent on revenge. But he finds that Egypt has undergone a revolution and, on a more personal level, his beloved wife and his trusted henchman, who conspired to betray him to the police, are now married to each other and are keeping his six-year-old daughter from him. As Saids wild attempts to achieve his idea of justice badly misfire, he becomes a hunted man, driven by hatred.
A Lesson Before Dying, set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, is about the bond forged between two menJefferson, convicted of murder and sentenced to die, and Grant Wiggins, a college graduate returning to his hometown to teach. Through their friendship and the wisdom they impart upon one another, they both come to understand the simple heroism of resistingand defyingthe expected. We did use A Lesson Before Dying at UNCG as part of our All Freshman Read program that we do each fall. This novel was very well received by both the teachers and the students. It is a story that is set in the 1940s, but easily translates to today. Many of us used it as a springboard for discussions and writing assignments about race, capital punishment, the judicial system, prisons, the South, gender and relationships, literacies, and family ties.
Jackie Grutsch McKinney, Director of Composition, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
SELECTED BY 26 SCHOOLS INCLUDING: Appalachian State University; Champlain College; Georgetown University; Howard University; LaGuardia Community College; Marquette University; Saint Josephs University; Texas A&M University
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VINTAGE | 978-0-307-74255-1 | 304 PAGES | $15.00 EXAM PRICE $3.00

SELECTED BY: University of North Carolina Wilmington

ENAIATOLLAH AKBARI graduated from high school

Peggielene Bartels and Eleanor Herman

VINTAGE | 978-0-307-27918-7 | 304 PAGES | $15.95 EXAM PRICE $3.00

SELECTED BY: Appalachian State University

PEGGIELENE BARTELS was born in Ghana in 1953

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Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D. and Kathryn Bowers

Paperback Available January 2013

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Paperback Available April 2013

JONATHAN HAIDT is the Thomas Cooley Professor of

BARBARA NATTERSON-HOROWITZ, M.D.,

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

VINTAGE | 978-0-307-38709-7 | 320 PAGES | $15.95 EXAM PRICE $3.00

VINTAGE | 978-0-307-38992-3 | 304 PAGES | $15.95 EXAM PRICE $3.00

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF AND SHERYL WU DUNN

DAVID EAGLEMAN is a neuroscientist at Baylor

VINTAGE | 978-0-679-76388-8 | 640 PAGES | $16.95 EXAM PRICE $3.00

KNOPF | 978-0-307-70021-6 | 320 PAGES | $26.95 EXAM PRICE $13.50

Paperback Available January 2013

ISABEL WILKERSON won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for

ANCHOR | 978-0-7679-3131-1 | 416 PAGES | $16.00 EXAM PRICE $3.00

KNOPF | 978-0-307-27221-8 | 320 PAGES | $26.95 EXAM PRICE $13.50

Paperback Available January 2013

VINTAGE | 978-0-375-70821-3 | 352 PAGES | $16.00 EXAM PRICE $3.00

VINTAGE | 978-0-307-38612-0 | 320 PAGES | $16.00 EXAM PRICE $3.00

VINTAGE | 978-0-307-38997-8 | 240 PAGES | $15.00 EXAM PRICE $3.00

VINTAGE | 978-0-307-38904-6 | 352 PAGES | $15.00 EXAM PRICE $3.00

Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane

Paperback Available January 2013

VINTAGE | 978-0-307-27745-9 | 256 PAGES | $16.00 EXAM PRICE $3.00

Paperback Available December 2012

PANTHEON | 978-0-307-90730-1 | 214 PAGES | $22.95 EXAM PRICE $11.50

ANCHOR | 978-0-307-47333-2 | 480 PAGES | $15.95 EXAM PRICE $3.00

Margaret Atwood The Year of the Flood

Colson Whitehead Zone One

Charles Yu How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus

Winner of the Alex Award

Julie Otsuka When the Emperor Was Divine

David Malouf Ransom

Michael Ondaatje The Cats Table

VINTAGE | 978-0-307-74441-8 | 288 PAGES | $15.00 EXAM PRICE $3.00

VINTAGE | 978-0-307-74485-2 | 224 PAGES | $15.00 EXAM PRICE $3.00

Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go

VINTAGE | 978-1-4000-3271-6 | 240 PAGES | $14.95

Dai Sijie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

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ANCHOR | 978-0-307-47747-7 | 352 PAGES | $14.95 EXAM PRICE $3.00

Marjane Satrapi The Complete Persepolis

Dave Eggers Zeitoun

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Rick Bragg All Over but the Shoutin

VINTAGE | 978-0-679-77402-0 | 352 PAGES | $15.95 EXAM PRICE $3.00

Dave Eggers What Is the What

KNOPF | 978-0-307-59273-6 | 336 PAGES | $25.95 EXAM PRICE $13.00

Terry Tempest Williams Finding Beauty in a Broken World

KNOPF | 978-0-307-59403-7 | 352 PAGES | $25.00 EXAM PRICE $12.50

Harold S. Kushner Living a Life that Matters