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The World in a Grain Vince Beiser

A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award – The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world—sand—and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other—even more than...

From Cowgirl to Congress Mila Johansen

An eyewitness account of Jessie Haver Butler, a suffragist on the front lines of the women’s movement in 1920—with Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt. During her long life devoted to women’s rights, Jessie lectured alongside George Bernard Shaw, Eleanor Roosevelt...

Wonderkid Robert Scott Ross

Keith Ferguson is a scout for a middling Italian soccer club. He and his boss are in jeopardy of losing their jobs when Keith discovers Remigio, a once-promising Brazilian player who mysteriously refuses to play for his Russian League club. Watching Remigio in practice, Keith is astounded by his abilities. Remigio strikes a deal with Keith...

The Beekeeper's Question Christina Baldwin

This is a dramatic family saga of generations daring to ask the questions that shape their destinies,a story of enduring love in an era of American life that still echoes in society today. It’s 1942 and War War II looms over the lives of the Cooper family—a son in the fight whose pregnant war bride arrives to their...

Looking for Love in a Garbage Can Lisa M. Sánchez

Lisa Sánchez details the trials, challenges and difficulties of her violent and dysfunctional home environment as a result of her father's alcoholism. In this personal memoir, she illuminates the emotional and physical manifestations of living in a toxic environment, and what it does to your self-esteem, dreams...

Kin Carolyn Nones Vazquez

Grace listens to a story told to her by her Grandmother. Her Grandmother shares her wisdom. Grace learns the lessons of nature and of the heart. The greatest lesson of all is that we are all "Kin." Grandmother talks about basic traits that are appreciated and important. She focuses on our common humanity. Most of all...

Amphibious Naomi M. Wong

At a dinner party somewhere in Chile, a spunky, hypnotic human weapon steals something she can't remember from her hosts. She is the Agent, known in that part of the world by the name "Bathsheba." David Miller the Killer, Bathsheba's trainer in covert operations at the World Council of Eugenics, discovers...

Botticelli's Muse Dorah Blume

A provocative historical fiction about Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, his conflicts with the Medici family of Florence, and the woman at the heart of his paintings. In 1477, Botticelli is suddenly fired by his prestigious patron and friend Lorenzo de' Medici. In the villa of his irritating new patron, the artist’s creative well runs dry...

Joyous Lies Margaret Ann Spence

Maelle Woolley, a shy botanist, prefers plants to people. They don't suddenly disappear. Raised on her grandparents' commune after her mother's mysterious death, she follows the commune's utopian beliefs of love for all. Then she falls for attractive psychiatrist Zachary Kane. When Zachary claims her mother and his father...

Sins Against Science Judi Nath

Misinformation has had dramatic and dangerous effects, as evidenced by numerous events of the late 2010s and early 2020s. Reading a steady stream of misinformation leads to distrust, potentially leading to conflict in one's family and workplace, and even to civil unrest. At the heart of many such matters is scientific illiteracy. Many people...

Pavarotti and Pancakes Francesco Granieri

Pavarotti and Pancakes is a candid, yet genially rendered tale, of the struggles and victories of a young Italian-American, Francesco Granieri. A child of the 1980's, Francesco grows-up amidst the erosion of a warm, embracing family, subject to the chilling grip of a tenacious...

The Politzer Saga Linda A. Broenniman

A housefire in 2011. The contents of a box that survives become the catalyst for a quest whose seeds were planted in 1983 - the day Linda Ambrus Broenniman learned that her Catholic father was Jewish and what little family history she knew was a lie. Searching for truth, Linda pieces together the astonishing story of her Jewish...

A Chance Beginning: Shadow's Fire Book 1 Christopher Patterson

Erik is content farming for his family for the rest of his life, while his brother and cousin can't think of a worse fate. For different reasons, they leave the life they know behind. Soon, their world crashes down around them as they realize it is cruel, brutal, selfish, and violent. Now, they must not only rely on one another, but...

The Farm George Benda

The Farm, set in the second global energy crisis, juxtaposes Jack's high-flying energy career with his pursuit of an idyllic life with his new bride, Anna. Together with Jack's old philosophical friend, Ben, and Ben's wife, Rebecca, the couples explore a path to practical wisdom in the nuclear age. Jack and Ben, learning from...

Once Upon a Nashville Night L. A. Wilson

From 1953 through 1967, Nashville's Centennial Park hosted a Nativity scene so grand, it stretched the length of the Parthenon, captivating visitors from all fifty states and many foreign countries, earning its place as the largest in the world at the time. Behind this beloved holiday tradition were three remarkable...

Is the Republican Party Destroying Itself? Thomas E. Patterson

Patterson explores five traps that the Republican Party has set for itself and endanger its future. The traps vary in lethality but, together, they could cripple the party for a generation or more. One trap is its steady movement to the right, which has distanced the party from the moderate voters...