When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon -- Alex Cuadros, Hardcover History - Military / War promising prosperity for all thanks

promising prosperity for all thanks to the dot-com bubble

We know happiness when we feel it

Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change

but Gemma never expected this

An iconic writer's lapidary memoir of a life spent pursuing a dream of artistic truth while evading the truth of her own gender identity until

When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon -- Alex Cuadros, Hardcover History - Military / War promising prosperity for all thanksA CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS NONFICTION FINALIST The "gripping and astonishing story" (Douglas Preston) of the Cinta Larga, a tribe that had no contact with the West until the 1960s and came to run an illegal diamond mine in the Amazon. Growing up in a remote corner of the world's largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita learned to hunt wild pigs and tapirs, and gathered Brazil nuts and aa berries from centuries old trees. The first highway pierced