Bryan Mealer, Author . Bloomsbury $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59691-345-5
In 1996 the brutal civil war in Rwanda spilled into neighboring Congo, triggering a conflict that has seethed for 12 long years, claimed more lives than any since WWII and received little acknowledgment or aid from the international community. AP...
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Bryan Mealer. Crown Archetype, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-307-88862-4
Drawing comparisons to the 1990 bestseller Friday Night Lights, this football narrative chronicles the evolution of high school football in Belle Glade, Fla.—among the poorest communities in the U.S. and defined by the fertile black silt that helped
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Bryan Mealer. Flatiron, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-05891-1
In this excellent family history, journalist Mealer (The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind) follows his Scotch-Irish forebears from the hills of northern Georgia to a distant frontier of rugged beauty, untapped resources, and devastating hardship. The saga
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William Kamkwamba, Author, Bryan Mealer, Author William Morrow & Company $25.99 (273p) ISBN 978-0-06-173032-0
American readers will have their imaginations challenged by 14-year-old Kamkwamba's description of life in Malawi, a famine-stricken, land-locked nation in southern Africa: math is taught in school with the aid of bottle tops (""three Coca-Cola
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