Penguin Random House Audio

This narrative nonfiction for teens tells the story of the AIDS crisis in America. It presents the history of the AIDS crisis through the lens of the brave victims and activists who demanded action and literally fought for their lives.

“A rousing, sympathetic account of a community’s pain, fear, rage, and resiliency…Well-researched and expertly paced…” —School Library Journal (starred review)

Physician, researcher, and ethics professor Matt McCarthy shares the exhilarating story of cutting-edge science and the race against the clock to find new treatments in the fight against the antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as superbugs.

“An amazing, informative book that changes our perspective on medicine, microbes and our future.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies

In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute—men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing. Here Sister Helen confronts both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the fears of a society shattered by violence and the Christian imperative of love.

“An intimate meditation on crime and punishment, life and death, justice and mercy and—above all—Christian love in its most all-embracing sense.” —Los Angeles Times

“River of Fire is Sister Helen’s story leading up to her acclaimed book Dead Man Walking—it is thought-provoking, informative, and inspiring. Read it and it will set your heart ablaze!”—Mark Shriver, author of&...