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Set in mid-60s Harlem and Alabama, two families grapple with the promise and brutality of the civil rights era in the American South, reckoning with family secrets, unresolved trauma, and the heavy question of what justice demands.

The latest novel by bestselling author Leonard Pitts, Jr. Set during World War II and centered on two families-one white, one black-this is a page-turning American epic of race and war.

Set in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Sam--a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army--decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia and set out on foot to return to the war-torn South.

Intends to bridge the 'gap' between the fundamental chemistry of the earth's atmosphere and 'real world' examples of its application to the development of scientific risk assessments and associated risk management control strategies for tropospheric and stratospheric pollutants. This book is suitable for atmospheric scientists.