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When a dying Andrew Carnegie asked for a final meeting with Henry Clay Frick, his one time partner and later rival, Frick is said to have replied, “Tell him that I’ll meet him in hell.” Les Standiford tells the story of how these two men came to dominate the steel industry and destroy many a worker’s life in the process. The title of his book is “Meet You In Hell.”

C.S. Sughrue doesn’t want to take on any new cases, but his friend Will MacKenderick really needs the help. Someone has been taking confidential files from his psychiatric office and “Mac” needs them caught. In a small town, he can’t take the chance of those files becoming public. “The Right Madness” was written by James Crumley.

Famous writer John Heppel is the hope of many in Lochdubh until he gives his seminar. Of the dozen or so attending the workshop on how to become a famous writer, every one of them leaves wishing John Heppel were dead. And every one of them had means, motive, and opportunity when he is, indeed, found dead. Constable Hamish Macbeth is on the case in “Death of a Bore,” by M.C. Beaton.

Tool kit genes? The new science of Evo Devo? These are the subjects of “Endless Forms Most Beautiful,” a study of the miracle of complex life by Sean B. Carroll. Evo Devo refers to evolutionary developmental biology and Carroll relates the findings of this science of life’s building materials, genes, as they relate to the making of the animal kingdom.

Daniel B. Botkin followed the trail of Lewis and Clark to record the West they described and the challenges that same West knows today in “Beyond the Stony Mountains.” The prairie grasses have given way to plows, the bear and other species are now endangered, and the natural resources have been depleted. Yet by the end of his book, Botkin demonstrates the West is endowed with a natural, if vanishing, beauty.

The Economic Policy Institute has published “The State of Working America 2004/2005” to describe in detail the American economy today and how it relates to working families. Authors Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein and Sylvia Allegretto cover family income, wages, jobless recovery, wealth, poverty, regional analysis and international comparisons.

Because Wall Street figures prominently in the lives of so many American shareholders today, Steve Fraser has written “Every Man a Speculator.” Fraser begins his history with the Revolutionary Era and follows the market through the Civil War, the Great Depression and up to the present day. Within these time frames, he talks about America’s values, from the professed work ethic to dreams of instant wealth.

In “The Orange Blossom Special,” author Betsy Carter introduces us to a group of characters who are starting over. Tessie Lockhart and her 13-year-old daughter leave Illinois for warmth and a fresh start in Florida. The year is 1958 and Tessie has decided that the grief of losing her husband needs to give way to a new life.

Witnessing history can be painful. Joe O’Donnell was 23 years old when he photographed the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and other sites of bombing devastation in Japan. He stored 300 images, unable to look at them until 1989, when he decided he needed to confront what he had seen. “Japan 1945: A U.S. Marine’s Photographs from Ground Zero” is his book.