Since Geeta’s abusive husband abandoned her, fellow villagers have whispered that she killed him.
This Pulitzer-winning history tracks conflicts between white residents of Barbour County, Ala., and the federal government over two centuries. From the seizure of Creek Nation lands to George Wallace’s anti-integration politics, Cowie interrogates how the idea of “freedom” has been used to repress.
This reprint of an Hercule Poirot mystery follows passengers on a French luxury train where an American socialite has been found dead. Most suspect her estranged husband, but not Poirot — never a “man to be satisfied with anything less than a complete solution,” our reviewer wrote in 1928.
Though the Christian monks central to this book lived from A.D. 300 to 900, the problem they were wrangling with — distraction — feels surprisingly modern.
Brooks’s sixth novel traces the power of love between a man and a horse through the snares of American racism and across centuries.
“The relationship between a biotech company and physician-scientists is a delicate dance,” Vardi writes in this book, which illuminates the complex politics involved in bringing medicines from molecule to market.
