James A. Lovell, Author, Jim Lovell, Author, Jeffrey Kluger, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $25 (378p) ISBN 978-0-395-67029-3
Astronaut Lovell and Kluger, a contributing editor at Discover magazine, take us on the terrifying voyage of unlucky Apollo 13. Launched in April 1970 and manned by Lovell, Jack Swigert and Jack Haise, Apollo 13 was scheduled to orbit the moon while
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Jeffrey Kluger, Author . Putnam $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15216-0
For children today, the word "polio" means little more than a series of shots, a mundane part of health care. Fifty years ago, however, polio was a dark shadow that arrived every summer, a deep fear hanging over every child and parent. Every
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Jeffrey Kluger, Author . Hyperion $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0301-3
Frustrated by the traffic on narrow bridges? Stunned by the number of buttons on a remote control? Saddened by the lack of basic medical care in the developing world? Kluger (Splendid Solutions
) makes the modern world comprehensible, analyzing...
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Jeffrey Kluger, Philomel, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-25214-3
In a quiet story that builds steam as it unfolds, 14-year-old slave Lillie undertakes incredible risks and defies time itself to save her six-year-old brother, Plato, from being sold at auction at Greenfog plantation, the only home they've ever...
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Jeffrey Kluger, Author Simon & Schuster $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-84765-8
Unmanned spaceships have investigated all the planets in our solar system except Pluto. More significant to NASA's search for extraterrestrial life, these spaceships have also beamed back vivid closeups of 63 moons. For it is on moons like Jupiter's
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Jeffrey Kluger. Riverhead, $27.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59448-636-4
Time magazine editor Kluger analyzes narcissistic personality disorder from a scientific and social perspective to help readers identify and understand narcissists in their lives. He outlines symptoms—including an “unquenchable thirst for admiration,
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Jeffrey Kluger. Holt, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-62779-832-7
In spare yet vivid prose, Kluger (with Jim Lovell, coauthor of Apollo 13), senior writer at Time, captures the nostalgia and excitement of a “space-drunk nation” in this gripping account of the first lunar mission. Beginning years before the 1968...
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Jeffrey Kluger, Author, David Elliot, Illustrator . Philomel $18.99 (374p) ISBN 978-0-399-24604-3
Kluger’s first novel for young readers is a fully imagined fantasy with a twist of magic. The village of Yole, once a bustling seaport, is now an arid village, following the “Great Drying” when locals drained the sea, (wrongly)...
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Jeffrey Kluger. Philomel, $19.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-525-51830-3
In his latest work, Kluger (Disaster Strikes!) showcases 12 renowned U.S. protests, from the Boston Tea Party in 1773 to the Women’s March of 2017 (the largest demonstration in U.S. history) and the Dakota Access Uprising, 2016–17. Each chapter...
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Jeffrey Kluger. Dutton, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-18469-1
What goes up refuses to come back down in this exciting contemporary space thriller from journalist Kluger (Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13). Lieutenant Commander Belka “Walli” Beckwith is a mission specialist conducting research aboard...
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