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2008 Finalist for Young Adult Nonfiction
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Rising Tides
by Anna Call
This chilling and urgent call to action spares no detail in its mission to present the facts on a looming humanitarian disaster. Climate-change warning messages too often focus on the environment without going into specifics of how...
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UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens
This entertaining study reveals a public fascinated with the unverifiable. Even for those who don’t believe the hokum, aliens and UFOs are a source of fascination—explored through speculative fiction, sci-fi flicks, and television...
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The Silence of the Spirits
Wilfried N’Sondé delivers a deep slice of the human experience in luminous prose. Flight, forgiveness, and the plight of an illegal African immigrant in Paris are the subjects of Wilfried N’Sondé’s accomplished and richly...
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Earth as It Is
by Amanda Adams
Both loving and heartbreaking, Earth As It Is lends a new perspective to an ongoing dialogue. Jan Maher’s Earth As It Is is a heartfelt story about an extraordinary life. Charlie is a heterosexual man who grows up wanting to wear...
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And Yet It Moves
In Erin Stalcup’s "And Yet It Moves", science, physics, and electricity (the reliably immutable phenomena that connect our universe) are the background for short stories of startling human disconnection and alienation. “Einstein”...
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Girl
Alona Frankel’s simply titled memoir, "Girl", presents World War II and the Holocaust through the eyes and imagination of a young Jewish girl trying to make sense of daily experience and the world being torn apart around her. Frankel...
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The Dead Sea and the Jordan River
by Anna Call
The Dead Sea is a unique subject, located as it is at the intersection of three major religions. Its history is as rich and combustible as might be expected. Students of the Middle East will doubtless find this exhaustive report on the...