"What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snow night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as soon as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways... Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny?" -- from publisher
"Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg never asked for fame -- she was just trying to make the world a little better and a little freer. But along the way, the feminist pioneer's searing dissents and steely strength have inspired millions. Norotious RBG takes you a behind the myth for an intimate, irreverent look at the justice's life and work. As America struggles with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, Ginsburg stays fierce." -- from publisher
"Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in Northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life... On August 15, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves... Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced into the ISIS slave trade. Today, Nadia's story -- as witness to the Islamic State's brutality, has forced the world to pay attention to the ongoing genocide. It is a call to action. -- from publisher
"In the tradition of Mary Roach's bestselling Stiff comes this meticulously researched, refreshingly irreverent, and lavishly illustrated look at death from acclaimed author, Harold Schechter. With his trademark fearlessness and bracing sense of human, Schechter digs deep into a wealth of sources to unearth a treasure trove of surprising facts, amusing anecdotes, practical information, and timeless wisdom about that undiscovered country to which we will all one day travel." -- from publisher
"In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like her by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil." -- from publisher
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