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Montreal and the Bomb, by Gilles Sabourin. Winner of the 2021 Hubert-Reeves Award for Science Communicators, this book brings readers the exhilarating saga of World War II-era European scientists secretly developing a strategic nuclear laboratory in the halls of the Universite de Montreal. What started as cooperation with the Americans eventually became a race to harness the energy of the atom when Washington launched the Manhattan Project. It is a story peopled by leading figures of modern nuclear physics, bold chemists, and scientists accused of spying. The one idea driving them is to master the atom, whatever the result maybe. (208 pages, paperback, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-77186-265-3, Baraka Books; order at barakabooks.com/productcat/books)