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Oct 7 2010
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When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone : The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
By Gal Beckerman
By Gal Beckerman
At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the Soviet Union. They lived a paradox—unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. Journalist Gal Beckerman draws on newly released Soviet government documents as well as hundreds of oral interviews with refuseniks, activists, Zionist “hooligans,” and Congressional staffers. When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story of their rescue.
Oct 7 2010
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Overhaul
An Insider’s Account of the Obama
Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry
By Steven Rattner
From the vantage point of Obama’s “car czar” comes the first real look inside Team Obama. Steven Rattner was at the helm of the historic auto-industry intervention, and here he crafts a tightly plotted narrative of political brinkmanship, corporate mismanagement, and personalities under pressure in a high-stakes clash between Washington and Detroit. He also explains the tough choices he and his team made, working against a ticking clock and facing vocal opposition from free-market champions, to keep Chrysler and General Motors in operation.
Nashville Chrome
By Rick Bass
Late in 1959, the Brown siblings—Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed—were enjoying unprecedented international success, rivaled only by their longtime friend Elvis Presley. They had a bona fide megahit on their hands, which topped both the country and pop charts and gave rise to the polished sound of the multibillion dollar country music industry we know today. Rick Bass fictionalizes this band’s story as their celebrity struggled against the changing times, and fame began to fray the bonds of family.
Oct 7 2010
New Dog Books!
The Hidden Life of Dogs
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Long before the Dog Whisperer, anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas revealed to readers the nature of pack dynamics, leading to a completely new understanding of dogs and their desires. In this fascinating account, based on thirty years of living with and observing dogs, we meet Misha, a friend’s husky, whom Thomas followed on his daily rounds of more than 130 square miles, and who ultimately provided the simple and surprising answer to the question, What do dogs want most? Not food, not sex, but other dogs. This paperback edition includes a new afterword by the author.
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Martha Speaks: Haunted House
by Susan Meddaugh
Martha has to make a flower delivery to a supposedly haunted house. But who ordered the flowers? Is someone fixing up the house? Or was it truly a ghost Martha saw in the spooky darkness? Whoever or whatever it was, Martha knows she has to follow and protect Helen, who has gone to investigate. The question is, Who will protect Martha? Fun activities include a word scramble, a ghostly riddle, and spooky stickers!