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Why Religion? A Personal Story
By Elaine Pagels
An historian uses her own experiences to explore the solace, contradictions, and mystery of faith.
A Year with Nature: An Almanac
By Marty Crump
Twelve months of fresh facts and quirky celebrations await in the author’s annual handbook.
Where the Past Begins
By Amy Tan
The author’s second memoir searches the imagination with aesthetic, intellectual, and emotional force.
Paradise in Chains
By Diana Preston
The story of Bali Ha’i, Captain Bligh, and Botany Bay.
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
By David Quammen
It wasn’t Darwin’s fault that he didn’t have access to fully sequenced genomes.
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life
By Diarmaid MacCulloch
Everything you wanted to know about Henry VIII’s trusted fixer.
Bobby Kennedy
By Chris Matthews
This new biography charts the politician’s transformation from ruthless strategist to advocate for the dispossessed.
The Burning Time
By Virginia Rounding
An authoritative chronicle of the gruesome era when religious dissenters met their end at the stake.
