November Books

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.