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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
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When Janzen's husband leaves her for a guy named Bob and in that same week she is in an accident that leaves her with broken bones, she goes home to mom and dad. Her hilarious and touching emails to friends became this funny, honest, tender memoir. You'll laugh and learn a lot! Read more about it on IndieBound.org.

I Curse the River of Time
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It is 1989: Communism is crumbling, and Arvid Jansen, thirtyseven, is facing his first divorce. At the same time, his mother gets diagnosed with cancer. Over a few intense autumn days, we follow Arvid as he struggles to find a new footing in his life while all the established patterns around him are changing at staggering speed. I Curse the River of Time is an honest, heartbreaking yet humorous portrayal of a complicated mother-son relationship told in Per Petterson’s precise and beautiful prose. An Indie Next pick for August. See the whole list.

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Atomic history

Los Alamos was part of the Manhattan Project, the project to design and build the first atomic weapons. We have an extensive collection of atomic history books, such as American Prometheus: Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is a portrait of scientist Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb. more

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