Golden Holocaust Near & Middle Eastern History Winner of the Chicago Tribune

Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize

film makers' and architects' manifestos

religious festivals

The English Masterpiece by Katherine Reay has ALL the goodies-especially for historical fiction lovers and art aficionados

with a heavy dash of The Woman in Black

Golden Holocaust Near & Middle Eastern History Winner of the Chicago TribuneThe cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly secret industry documents to explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. He paints a harrowing picture of