Books

• Stealing History

  Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World

  by Roger Atwood

  

  In this fascinating book, Atwood takes readers on a journey through Iraq, Peru, Hong Kong, and across America, showing how the worldwide antiquities trade is destroying what’s left of the ancient sites before archaeologists can reach them, and thus erasing their historical significance. Read More

  • It’s a must-read.

    Heather Pringle, author of The Mummy Congress

• Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World

  A Memoir Anthology

  Edited by Nancy C. Atwood and Roger Atwood

  

  Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors-some eminent, some less well known-who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Read More

  • Wonderfully varied . . .

    Julia Prewitt Brown, author of Jane Austen's Novels: Social Change and Literary Form