Seconds away / Harlan Coben
Mickey Bolitar continues to hunt
for information about the Abeona Shelter, the Butcher of Lodz, and the mystery
of his father’s death. Then a classmate is shot. The fast-paced, thrilling sequel to Shelter.
Beyond courage : the untold story of Jewish resistance
during the Holocaust / Doreen Rappaport
Stories of Jews who
organized to sabotage the Nazis and help other Jews during the Holocaust.
The twenty-one stories include such feats as smuggling thousands of children
out of occupied France into Switzerland; ambushing a train, allowing scores of
Jews to flee from the cattle cars; leading ghetto refugees into the forest to build a
guerilla force and self-sufficient village; entertaining German officers with music
before setting off a bomb.
Their skeletons speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican
world / Sally M. Walker & Douglas Owsley
On July 28, 1996, two young men stumbled upon human bones in
the shallow water along the shore of the Columbia River near Kennewick,
Washington. Scientific testing revealed that the bones were more than 9,000
years old. Learn about one of North America’s earliest residents and the
science that determined who he was and what his life was like.
The skull in the rock : how a scientist, a boy, and
GoogleEarth opened a new window on human origins / Lee R. Berger & Marc
Aronson
In 2008, Professor Lee Berger--with the help of his curious 9-year-old son--discovered
two remarkably well preserved, two-million-year-old fossils of an adult female
and young male, known as Australopithecus sediba; a previously unknown
species of ape-like creatures that may have been a direct ancestor of modern
humans. The fossils reveal what may be one of humankind's oldest
ancestors. Berger believes the skeletons they found on the Malapa site in South
Africa could be the "Rosetta stone that unlocks our understanding of the
genus Homo" and may just redesign the human family tree.
