Face of Our Father is a captivating novel that is too literary to be a thriller, yet too thrilling to put down. It is a unique blend of action and intimacy – a thriller with a soul.

Stuart and Angela Pierce, like many disillusioned careerists, are busy reinventing their lives. Stu reduces his airline flying schedule to train for triathlons, while Angie escapes the daily horrors of a prosecutor's job to pursue pro bono work. But death threats soon prove that the only thing Angie escaped was the protective arm of the District Attorney's office.

With a graphic photo of a ritual stoning as his only tangible clue, Stu sets out to protect a wife who refuses to protect herself. Obsessed with catching a murdering rapist, Angie plunges them both into a web of global intrigue. But who, indeed what, is the real enemy? Honor. Love. Life. All are at stake as the Pierces struggle to uncover the truth, both the enemy's, and their own.

Sometimes the biggest enemy can be the one right next to you... How often does fiction change how we define integrity, prejudice, and evil? To get at all that, a novel needs a rollercoaster of a plot coupled with an acute understanding of identity, love, and where these intersect. Test your beliefs. Read it.

I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate.I Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a deeply felt and inspirational work by Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. This book serves as a passionate call to arms against the pervasive human rights violation of the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

Join Kristof and WuDunn on an odyssey through Africa and Asia where they introduce us to extraordinary women. Among them is a Cambodian teenager who escapes sex slavery, an Ethiopian woman who overcomes devastating childbirth injuries to become a surgeon, and a Zimbabwean mother of five who earns her doctorate and becomes an AIDS expert.

Through these compelling stories, the authors illustrate how unleashing women's potential is key to economic progress. They show how small acts of help can transform lives and emphasize that emancipating women globally is not only right but also a strategic approach to fighting poverty.

This book is essential reading for every global citizen, offering clarity, anger, sadness, and ultimately, hope.

Collapse is a brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing book by Jared Diamond, destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time. It raises the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?

Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of these societies, but other societies found solutions and persisted.

Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society's apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana.