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Week of March 10, 2014

Releases for the week of March 10th include SONGS OF WILLOW FROST by Jamie Ford, a powerful tale of two souls --- a boy with dreams for his future and a woman escaping her haunted past --- both seeking love, hope and forgiveness; DAMAGE CONTROL, Amber Dermont's debut collection of short stories focusing on privilege and entitlement; and ELEVEN DAYS, a haunting first novel from Lea Carpenter that reveals the profound bond between a mother and her son, as it raises fundamental questions about life choices, the military, war, and service to one’s country.

March 2014

March’s roundup of History titles includes MACHINE MADE, a surprising new history of New York’s most famous political machine --- Tammany Hall --- revealing, beyond the vice and corruption, a birthplace of progressive urban politics; THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY, a remarkable true story of the top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the young women brought there unknowingly to help build the atomic bomb; THE AGE OF RADIANCE, a magisterial account of the men and women who uncovered the secrets of the nucleus, brought its power to America, and ignited the 20th century;  WASHED AWAY, the incredible story of a flood of near-biblical proportions --- its destruction, its heroes and victims, and how it shaped America's natural-disaster policies for the next century; and THE ETERNAL NAZI, the never-before-told story of the most hunted Nazi war criminal in the world, by the New York Times reporters who first uncovered S.S. officer Aribert Heim’s secret life in Egypt.