How we decide

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John Turner, deputy sheriff of a small town near Memphis, confronts trouble in the persons of the sheriff's long-lost son, who arrives in what appears to be a stolen car, and old friend Eldon Brown, who is a suspect in a murder he does not know if he committed.

A reliable wife

Set in rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting.

The devil's company

Liss, David. (2009). The Devil's company. New York: Random House.

Fundamentalist politics

Sharlet, Jeff. (2008). The family : the secret fundamentalism at the heart of American power. NY : HarperCollins.

Stone's fall

Kirkus: A learned, witty and splendidly entertaining descent into the demimondes of international espionage, arms dealing, financial hanky-panky and other favorite pastimes of those without conscience.

Hippies saved physics

Perennial classic

Book-a-Day calendar praises this Defoe book.

World without us

Weisman, Alan. (2007). The world without us. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press

France discovered

Shakespeare wrote for money

A tale of the American Revolution

Kirkus: A crackling good epic, both comic and bawdy