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 | The Sixth Extinction Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact... |
 | The Keepers of MerciaJames I. Marino While Binette awaits her father in the large trade village of Riversplit, she encounters an elder who confirms scant rumors being spread by merchants that a religious legion in the far west, known as the Jebedah, have been pressing villages into its ranks through sadistic means. Stirred by the... |
 | A Fighting Chance As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacher—an ambitious goal, given her family’s modest means. Early marriage and motherhood seemed to put even that dream out of reach, but fifteen years later she was a... |
 | A Complicated Love SongLynda Jones-Burns A captivating and complex beauty, Bettina Charles has exactly what it takes to make it big in the music industry of the 1980s—gorgeous looks, striking intelligence, and undeniable talent as a singer-songwriter, musician, and dancer. As she maneuvers to take the world by storm... |
 | The Essence of Christianity Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-72), the German philosopher and a founding member of the Young Hegelians, a group of radical thinkers influenced by G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), was an outspoken critic of religion, and the 1841 publication of this work established his... |
 | Beyond a Mother's Worst NightmareKaren Chaston Losing a loved one is never easy. When it is your child, it’s all the more difficult. Parents are not supposed to outlive their children, so most are unprepared when it happens. A little part of you dies, along with your child. You’ll never really "get over" their passing, but you... |
 | Royal EntertainmentMarni Fechter When bleeding heart Melody Frank blows the whistle on her boss, she gets fired from her social services job, and no one else in the field will touch her. Enter the fabulous Charles Ribbon, premier party producer for New York’s rich and famous. Charles’s assistant is out of commission, and he... |
 | Citizen Claudia Rankine’s bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home... |
 | This Changes Everything The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political... |
 | Orphan in AmericaNanette L. Avery Bringing back to the twenty-first century an epic novel of substance and style, Orphan in America is a compelling fiction that follows three generations across vast distances and the impact of a dark and unfamiliar episode of America’s past; the Orphan Train. Set in the 1800s, Orphan in America... |
 | The Sleepwalkers The Sleepwalkers is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a... |
 | Healing Your Wounded SpiritCherie Rickard The loss of a love is a nearly universal emotional crisis, whether the end is divorce, desertion of a friendship, death of a loved one or a mutually agreed-upon separation. At first, friends and family are there to offer a shoulder to cry on, but after a few months there's an... |
 | Capital in the Twenty-First Century What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But... |
