This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, bringing museum and heritage studies to bear on questions of transitional justice, memory and post-conflict reconciliation. As practitioners, artists, curators, activists and academics, the contributors explore the challenges of bearing witness to past conflicts.

Fishkill Carmel fends for herself, with her fists if need be — until a thwarted lunch theft introduces her to strange, sunny Duck-Duck, and a chance for a new start.Born in the backseat of a moving car, Carmel Fishkill was unceremoniously pushed into a world that refuses to offer her security, stability, love. At age thirteen-going-on-fifty, she begins to fight back. Carmel Fishkill becomes Fishkill Carmel, who deflects her tormenters with a strong left hook and co...

The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies“Golem Girl is luminous; a profound portrait of the artist as a young—and mature—woman; an unflinching social history of disability over the last six decades; and a hymn to life, love, family, and spirit.”—David Mitchell, author of Cloud AtlasWINNER OF THE ...

Both Imperial Governor Scholtz and the Sovereignty Movement face a wildcard: a self-proclaimed queen, armed with an unstoppable A.I. and unbeatable warriors.Eena is discouraged because the Sovereignty Movement has reached an all-time low, and martial law increasingly cramps the workers’ freedom. The students, pulled from the university to work at Onmatson Farm, labor under deplorable conditions. The cloned babies still face a dehumanized future. And Caellu...

Threats on all sides draw starship captain Jack Merrick, and oids from many planets, into battles against forces that threaten the noble experiment on Tall-ah Earth.Captain Jack Merrick has rescued the beautiful maiden and the apisoid children from Lucien’s Dark Planet, and now a terraformed planet awaits them. On Tall-ah Earth, oids, five generations removed from ancestral Evas and Adamas, form the enclave of Neolithia. The progeny of several planets enjo...

sharp satire of the presidential debate that changes the course of electoral politics (and the news business) forever--by Jim Lehrer, who has been a moderator of past presidential debates. The targets of this satire--religious fundamentalists, political handlers, self-important journalists, feral network programming heads--could not be more timely.

A perfect guidebook for children under the age of five, the Teaching Animals book is a fun way to let your kids explore and learn about different animals. This children's book is both informative and enjoyable, and children will have a great time going through it!

Scrumbles is one hungry monster. In fact, he’s so hungry his stomach is growling. He sets off on a journey to find food. He travels through the forest, through the towns, and by the sea to discover the perfect meal. Scrumbles meets a variety of creatures, and he samples lots of different foods in his quest to fill his belly. And along the way he gains so much more. This rhyming picture book for children follows Scrumbles as he faces challenges, meets new friends, and boldly adventures into...

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jim Lehrer's Tension City.April 1956: Climbing aboard the Sante Fe railroad’s famous Super Chief is an amazing spectrum of passengers. There’s Darwin Rinehart, a once great Hollywood producer who now faces bankruptcy. In a dark recess of a train car hides a mysterious, disheveled man who has not paid for a ticket, smuggled inside by an unscrupulous porter. Millionaire Otto Wheeler arrives in a wheelchair; deathly ill, he knows t...

Washington, D.C., is a town full of powerful people with powerful, often conflicting agendas, and no one knows this better than Jim Lehrer, the preeminent capital newscaster and novelist. His new book is a witty, provocative political mystery about power play and favor swapping at the highest levels of government, written with his own unique blend of political savvy and irreverent humor.Joshua Bennett has just been nominated by the president to be the new director of the CIA. He's ...

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jim Lehrer's Tension City.“Three may keep a secret if two of ’em are dead.”–Poor Richard’s Almanack[pg. 27 of mss]R Taylor arrives in Philadelphia for the funeral of his longtime friend Dr. Wally Rush with a heavy heart. Not only has the world lost one of its preeminent, Pulitzer Prize—winning American Revolution historians, but R has lost his mentor, the man who led him to devote his life’s work to the study of “...

Twelve-year-old Kiersti McKenzi dreads going to the school bus stop every morning now that Sam, her neighbor, has started high school. Catching an earlier bus, Sam is not out at the side of the road to run interference anymore. Smaller than others her age, she will be threatened or slapped by the group. If she misses the bus, it will be a long walk which will make her an hour late to school again. That puts her in the principals office. She dreams of being a horse running fast enough to ge...