The SleepwalkersA monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable. Boston Globe One of The New York Times Book Reviews 10 Best Books of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Historian Christopher Clarks riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and

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she embarks on a hesitant friendship with Alizayd

was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005

and the extraordinary power of hope

—Sara Gruen

Chicago is that rarest of literary creations: a book that combines spectacular elegance of craft with a kinetic wallop as fierce as the February wind gusting off Lake Michigan

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a ray of light in the darkness of their stories

and an unreal life

Coming of Age Camp-Style: An eleven-year-old’s master plan to get to summer camp

the classroom to the workplace

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