Chris Mooney presents a very hard case to crack: methodically researched, thoroughly presented, and persuasively argued, The Republican War on Science details just how the Bush Administration — and the Republican Party over the course of the century — has repeatedly spread misinformation about stem cell research and technology advancements, repealed laws safeguarding environmental protection, restricted access to birth control, and curbed efforts of teaching evolution in schools. While Mooney’s presentation is precise and backed up my meticulous evidence, he doesn’t attempt false balance when he sees it isn’t warranted. This book is unashamedly partisan and will no doubt make conservatives indignant. However, it is an insightful and indepth read.
America’s favorite tear-jerker writer returns with the follow-up to 2005’s earlier novel True Believer with At First Sight, which picks up where we las left Jeremy Marsh and his decision between leaving the city that he loves or the girl that he’s in love with. In At First Sight, Jeremy has finally dealt with the wounds of his bitter first marriage, made the big move to Boone Creek, North Carolina, married his love Lexi Darnell, and is happily expecting his first child. Things seem to be perfect, when a disturbing and mysterious message threatens to shatter the life of bliss Jeremy has built for himself.
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Anne Rivers Siddons pens a sweet and sad coming-of-age story in her latest novel Sweetwater Creek. Emily Parmenter is a 12-year-old girl living on her family’s South Carolina plantation. Her mother has left the family, her favorite brother committed suicide, and her father keeps his distance. The only solace Emily finds is in the Boykin spaniels her father breeds in an amibtious attempt to join high society. When 20-year-old blueblood, troubled Lulu Foxworth comes to the plantation to stay for the summer, Emily’s lonely world is at first reluctantly interrupted, but soon the two emotionally-starved girls bond. Lulu has several dark secrets, including an alcohol addiction and a torrid affair with the smarmy Yancey Byrd. As the Parmenters gain entrance into South Carolina’s high society, Lulu sinks further and further into her own demons.
Publisher: HarperCollins.
Karin Slaughter serves up another thrilling tale in Faithless where Georgia medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband Jeffrey discover a young girl buried out in the woods, dead despite a breathing pipe installed in the coffin that extended to the surface. The victim, identified as Abigail Bennett, was a member of the Holy Grown soybean farming collective, but no one bats an eye upon hearing news of her murder. Suspicion is cast on the collective’s farmhands, most of whom are ex-felons on work release, but when another murder turns up in the same fashion, Sara and Jeffrey soon draw the investigation to the parishioners of the Church for the Greater Good led by their shady minister, where all sorts of dark truths come to light centering around abortion and domestic abuse.
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