New Releases at Red Hill for the Week of January 25th!

The Lost City Of Z by David Grann
Now in paperback, this is the irresistible true story of the English adventurer Percy Fawcett's attempt to track down the legendary city of gold, El Dorado. Pitted against the unfathomable obstacles of the Amazon jungle, Fawcett's tale, as beautifully told by Grann, is about the essential confrontation between humans and the natural world, between wild desire and fatal destiny.

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization Of The American Psyche by Ethan Watters
American hegemony is by now an unquestioned fact, for better of for worse. Besides all the junk food, consumerism, and abject money worship we export to all the ends of the earth, could it be, argues Watters, that our most deleterious contribution has not been fully investigated? Which is the exportation of madness. We are homogenizing how the world goes mad.

Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
Now in paperback, this is a sweeping, sensuous novel about brothers and doctors, ailments and passions that spans New York, Ethiopia and India. Vergehese, himself a doctor, creates a fiction around the healing arts of medicine that has captivated readers the world over.

Little Cloud and Lady Wind by Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison
Inspired by the Aesop story, "The Bundle Of Sticks" Toni Morrison and her son Slade Morrison (along with illustrator Sean Qualls) have created a beautiful and inspiring story book about how everything in the world, now matter how small, is imbued with significance.

Race You To Bed by Bob Shea
A bright, cheerful and mischievious little book, along the lines of Dr. Seuss meets Japanese haiku, Shea's illustrated book follows the rhyming adventures of a rabbit whose going to race you to bed! Whose going to win? Full of fun, unexpected, and alliterative rhymes, this will be a big hit with adults as well as children.