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Ever since quitting her job teaching pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in 1980, Helen Caldicott has worked tirelessly for a safe, sustainable, nuclear-free planet, most recently by hosting a wee

In the last thirty years of the Soviet Communist project, Viktor Koretsky's art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communism's moral health through the produc

Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book.

Sportscaster Howard Cosell dubbed it "rule number one of the jockocracy": sports and politics just don't mix.

From "the mistress of day-lit terror": A couple invites two indigent women into their Hollywood home-and lives to regret it (The New York Times).

A woman attempts to flee her abusive husband in a thriller The New York Times Book Review calls "an unforgettable reading experience." Overworked cocktail waitress Sherry Reynard doesn&#0

A New York City drama teacher risks her life to expose a potentially deadly public hoax in this "most uncommon thriller" (New York Herald Tribune).

This MacDougal Duff Mystery launched the career of the Edgar Award-winning "American queen of suspense novelists" (New York Telegraph).

Edgar Award Finalist: The explosive politics of the Middle East shatter a California family in this "wonderful thriller" (The New York Times).

A disaster in a Michigan mining town throws a close-knit community into chaos in this novel from an Edgar Award-winning author.

A "dazzling first novel" about Japanese Americans and their Wyoming neighbors in the era of WWII internment camps (Chicago Tribune).

Ten essays on nature, ritual, and philosophy "that are so point-blank vital you nearly need to put the book down to settle yourself" (San Francisco Chronicle).

These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer-"Wyoming has found its Whitman" (Annie Dillard).

Pioneer heart surgeons and bitter rivals: The "thoroughly engrossing" true story of doctors Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley (The New York Times Book Review).

Edgar Award Winner: The "gripping" true story of a beautiful Texas socialite, her ambitious husband, and a string of mysterious deaths (Los Angeles Times).