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Janet Maslin says, “Ron Rash’s new short story collection, ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ is this Appalachian author’s best book since his 2008 “Serena.” 

Everyone has time for a short story, no?

Janet Maslin says, “Ron Rash’s new short story collection, ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ is this Appalachian author’s best book since his 2008 “Serena.”

Everyone has time for a short story, no?

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National Book Critics Circle: National Book Critics Circle Announces Its Finalists for Publishing Year 2012

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Ben Fountain’s wise, surprising Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco), Michael Gorra’s expansive Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece (A Liveright Book: W. W. Norton), and Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai…

With special shout-out to Ben Fountain and the team at Ecco Books for Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk!

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Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space by Lisa Randall

New from Harvard University Professor and author of the New York Times bestseller Knocking on Heaven’s Door, Lisa Randall: Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space!

On July 4th, 2012, one of physics’ most exhilarating results was announced: an entirely new kind of particle had been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider. The particle—a Higgs boson—is the key to verifying and understanding the Higgs mechanism that underlies elementary particle masses. Lisa Randall, one of the world’s most cited and influential theoretical physicists deftly explains both this epochal discovery and it’s startlingly beautiful implications.

An e-book original from Ecco Books. Very very cool…

HIGGS DISCOVERY by Lisa Randall

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