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Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden
Brook Wilensky-Lanford introduces readers to the enduring modern quest to locate the Garden of Eden on Earth. It is an obsession that has consumed scientists and theologians alike, including the first president of Boston University and a knighted British engineer. Today the search has been…
Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for fiction and the Sophie Brody Award for Outstanding Achievement in Jewish Literature, Manseau’s first novel has been called “a living, breathing… terrific book,” by Kirkus Reviews; “rich, ironic, darkly picaresque,” by Publishers Weekly; and a “thrilling tale of secrets…
Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Relics
“The dead may tell no tales, but the relics they leave behind do, if only we will listen to what they have to say. Happily, one of America’s best young writers has his ear to the ground at reliquaries from San Francisco to Sri Lanka….
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
Inspiration for the Netflix Documentary Series “Of all the important studies of the American right, The Family is undoubtedly the most eloquent. It is also quite possibly the most terrifying.” — Thomas Frank, New York Times bestselling author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? They insist they’re just a group…
Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son
Vows is a compelling story of one family’s unshakable faith that to be called is to serve, however high the cost may be. Peter Manseau’s riveting evocation of his parents’ parallel childhoods, their similar callings, their experiences in the seminary and convent, and how they met…
Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse
Thank You, Anarchy is an up-close, inside account of Occupy Wall Street’s first year in New York City, from the early planning meetings to May Day and beyond. By thinking and acting toward the end of the world as we know it, the Occupy apocalypse caused…
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