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The Disappeared traces a pair of casualties who emerge from the ashes of separate acts of political violence: a woman whose husband is missing in a terrorist attack, and a man who believes his sister was an unidentified victim of the '93 World Trade Center bombing. As the survivors face their own private terrors under the demanding watch of the public eye, each moves forward while working to uncover mysteries that may never be solved. Addressi...

What would you do to protect your freedom? Would you risk your reputation? Undergo interrogation, detainment, and abuse? Would you continue even when your friends and colleagues started going missing? Continue despite the threats? Would you leave everything behind, leave the only home you've ever known, before silencing yourself? In We Are Syrians, Naila Al-Atrash, Radwan Ziadeh, and Sana Mustafa share their harrowing accounts about working to...

Braver presents this highly imaginative novel about the last years of Sarah Bernhardt, exploring her opium addiction, her many sexual liasons, and her scandalous career as the greatest actress of the turn of the century.

Melding facts with imagination, this story is centered around the last weekend of Marilyn Monroe's life. Using the Tahoe weekend as a springboard, the novel explores moments throughout Monroe's career as she altered her persona.

An artfully understated and deeply sensitive novel about the individual trauma of terrorism and its culture of fear. Appealing to readers of all political stripes, from an author of high literary repute.

November 22, 1963" chronicles the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination. It begins that morning, with Jackie Kennedy in a Fort Worth hotel, about to leave for Dallas. Her airplane trip out of Dallas after the assassination forms the connecting arc for the book, which ends with Mrs. Kennedy's return to the White House at 4 a.m. Interwoven throughout are stories of real people intimately connected with that day: a man who shares cigarettes with...