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ALL AUNT HAGAR 'S CHILDREN
Stories
By Edward P. Jones
CLASSIC SELECTION
LITERARY - African Americans in the 20th century. (Nov/Dec 2006)
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HALF OF A YELLOW SUN
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
CLASSIC SELECTION
LITERARY - A personal history of 1960s Nigeria. (Nov/Dec 2006)
DEATH OF A WRITER
By Michael Collins
EXCELLENT SELECTION
LITERARY - A literary murder mystery. (Nov/Dec 2006)
FORGETFULNESS
By Ward Just
EXCELLENT
LITERARY - An expatriate American painter witnesses the
interrogation of his wife's killers. (Nov/Dec 2006)
RETURNING TO EARTH
By Jim Harrison
EXCELLENT
LITERARY - In this sequel to True North, a family reflects on death
and its dark history. (Mar/Apr 2007)
THE THIRTEENTH TALE
By Diane Setterfield
EXCELLENT
LITERARY - A popular novelist tells her life story to a bookseller.
But what is true? (Jan/Feb 2007)
THE BABY MERCHANT
By Kit Reed
EXCELLENT SELECTION
SF - In the near future, fertility rates have dropped. (Sept/Oct
2006)
IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY
Inside Iraq's Green Zone
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
EXCELLENT SELECTION
GENERAL NF - Baghdad's seven-squaremile Green Zone contrasts
with the chaotic insurgency on the outside. (Jan/Feb 2007)
THE BLIND SIDE
Evolution of a Game
By Michael Lewis
EXCELLENT
GENERAL NF - The modern game of football, reexamined. (Jan/Feb
2007)
THE LOST
A Search for Six of Six Million
By Daniel Mendelsohn
EXCELLENT
HISTORY - Holocaust remembrance kept alive. (Nov/Dec 2006)
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