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Published Jan 2019
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by C. Morgan Babst
Published Oct 2018
Read ReviewsA dazzling debut about family, home, and grief.
by Sheri Fink
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsPulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink's landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and suspense-filled portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.
by Rodman Philbrick
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsNewbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick presents a gripping yet poignant novel about a 12-year-old boy and his dog who become trapped in New Orleans during the horrors of Hurricane Katrina.
by Neil Swidey
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsThe harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible jobwith deadly results
by George Packer
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsA riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation.
by Judy Pasternak
Published Jul 2011
Read ReviewsYellow Dirt offers readers a window into a dark chapter of modern history that still reverberates today, weaving the personal and the political into a tale of betrayal, of willful negligence, and, ultimately, of reckoning.
by Darin Strauss
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsHalf a Life is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past.
by Michael J. Sandel
Published Aug 2010
Read ReviewsMichael J. Sandel's "Justice" course is one of the most popular and influential at Harvard. Up to a thousand students pack the campus theater to hear Sandel relate the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day. Justice offers readers the same exhilarating journey that captivates Harvard students.
Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans
by Dan Baum
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsNines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms.
by Timothy Egan
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsAs only great history can, Egan's book captures the very voice of the times: its grit, pathos, and abiding courage.
by David Laskin
Published Oct 2005
Read ReviewsA masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland - the 'Children's Blizzard' of 1888.
by Simon Winchester
Published Apr 2004
Read ReviewsThe bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.
by V.S. Naipaul
Published Oct 2002
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