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An urgent and deeply felt call to face our complicity in the Earth's destruction. In the shadow of an escalating eco-crisis--a looming catastrophe that will dwarf the fallout from COVID-19--how can we explain our society's failure to act? What will we tell future generations? Are we paralyzed because the problem is so vast in scope, or are there deeper reasons for the widespread passivity? Nathaniel Popkin explores the moral, social, and psych...

At age seven, Jason Benson first experiences the wonders of Atlantic City: Carousel music. Belgian waffles. A clanking roller coaster, riders screaming in free fall. Freak shows and barkers. Amazed and smitten, Jason decides his real life will happen in this magical shore town. Growing up in a suburb in the 1960s and 1970s, he lives only for his summers on the boardwalk, where his father owns a pretzel stand. From a gypsy friend the boy learns...

Since medieval times, all firstborn members of the far-flung Ravayah family have journeyed to Hanah's Paradise, a place of mystical beauty in the Galilee to record their life stories in the family archives. Now Salomeia, a young immigrant from Romania, arrives to join her grandfather and take over the job of keeping the chronicles.