Current Events

Steve Jarding & Dave "Mudcat" Saunders
Foxes in the Henhouse: How the Republicans Stole the South and the Heartland and What the Democrats Must Do to Run 'Em Out
(Touchstone/S&S, 2006)

"This is one hell of a book. I like angry, especially when it knows its target, and this one is dead-on. Both sides should read it and weap."
—Lewis Black

Roland Lazenby
April 16th: Virginia Tech Remembers
(Plume/Penguin, 2007)

A gripping, emotional account of the worst school shooting in U.S. history, told by those who lived through it, compiled by a Virginia Tech journalism instructor and a group of student journalists.

Michele Simon, J.D., M.P.H.
Appetite For Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back
(Nation Books, 2006)

"Clear and convincing! Simon rips the mask off the food industry, exposing a dangerous hypocrisy that's turned food into our biggest health threat."
—Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet

Mel White
Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right
(Tarcher/Penguin, 2006)

An insider expose of the Christian Right's agenda, and a clarion call to resist it, by the bestselling author of Stranger at the Gate and founder of Soulforce, Inc.