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Hot, Flat, and Crowded : Why We Need a Green Revolution– and How It Can Renew America
The New York Times – David G. Victor: The litany of dangers has been told many times before, but Mr. Friedman's voice is compelling and will be widely heard?Heads will be nodding across airport lounges, as readers absorb Mr. Friedman's common sense about how America and the world are dangerously addicted to cheap fossil fuels […]
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The Washington Post – Ron Charles: Writing one novel about a minister's family is asking for trouble; writing a second seems downright unrepentant, the kind of misjudgment that could land a reputable literary author in a Christian bookstore or with a cozy series on the BBC. But Robinson, who teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, […]
Defect
Children's Literature: What price should we be willing to pay for a rare, extraordinary gift? What if that gift is made possible only by the possession of a body regarded by others as disfigured, distorted, and defective? When is difference from others a curse, and when is it a blessing? Fifteen-year-old foster-child David has a […]
Entering Hades : the Double Life of a Serial Killer
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Austrian Jack Unterweger was many things to many people—celebrated author, well-known bon vivant and loyal friend. To prostitutes plying their trade in Vienna, he was a ruthless killer. When he hanged himself in his jail cell after being convicted of murder in 1994, Unterweger brought to a close a story […]