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The Inland Ground: An Evocation of the American Middle West
Inland Ground is Richard Rhodes's first book. It was published quietly in 1970 to critical acclaim (The New York Times Book Review named it one of the best books...
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Heard the one about the dying father? In this savagely brilliant graphic novel by slam poet Daphne Gottlieb (Final Girl) and Hothead Paisan creator Diane DiMassa, a...
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How to Write: Advice and Reflections
Uniquely fusing practical advice on writing with his own insights into the craft, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes constructs beautiful prose about the...
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Masters Of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
In Masters of Death, Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen’s role in the Holocaust. These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich...
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Dark Sun: The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb
Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often...
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The Audubon Reader
This unprecedented anthology of John James Audubon’s lively and colorful writings about the American wilderness reintroduces the great artist and ornithologist as...
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Why Things Burn
For many performance poets, the simple act of writing down the words can kill a poem’s spirit and energy. Not so with Daphne Gottlieb. In Why Things Burn, Gottlieb...
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Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health
In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain...
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A vivid and beautifully crafted chronicle of an exile's return to Palestine.   Summoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the...
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This passionate collection of poems, short stories, and essays is the first published anthology of writings by Iranian immigrants as well as first generation...
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What Will Your Marrakesh Encounter Be? Taking in the daily spectacle from ringside on Djemaa el-FnaSavoring the city's tangiest chicken tagine with preserved...
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  Garcia's dream has become reality and now, as the acknowledged master of the complex combination called the autar--part sitar, part guitar, part computer--he has...
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My book, The Grace of Everyday Saints: How a Band of Believers Lost Their Church and Found Their Faith, asks: What is sacred? Where is the truth? What does it mean...
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Inner Horror
A seventeen year old boy with a past of terrible nightmares begins to realize they are much more than nightmares and they are back to torment him once again....
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The Midnight Show Murders
In this second adventure of television personality Billy Blessing, co-written by the Today Show's Al Roker, the professional chef- TV personality travels to the...
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The Morning Show Murders
The first Billy Blessing crime caper, co-written by The Today Show's Al Roker and Dick Lochte, finds the celebrity chef and morning show host dealing with network...
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Terror Travels The Devil's Highway
A Maggie Lopez, Border Patrol Agent Novel Al-Qaeda terrorists travel from Afghanistan to the Philippines, Columbia and Mexico where along the way Islamic...
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What's in a Name?
Running for the wrong reason can still get you killed. Kelli Carpenter has changed her name, her appearance—her life—to avoid being connected to a crime...
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Former award-winning Vietnam and Cambodian War correspondent Jacques Leslie returns with his wife to Phnom Penh and Saigon for a reunion of journalists who covered...
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John Henry is a dragoon in the United States Army of the West that invades northern Mexico in 1846. The young soldier is eager to wave the flag and fight for his...
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