LITERARY
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Lush Life
By Richard Price
The crime novel and social novel come together in this scathing
look at violence, class inequalities, and torn social fabric in
21st-century Manhattan.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer "Price is funny and profane, displaying
a large talent for story-telling."
LITERARY
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The Commoner
By John Burnham Schwartz
In the 1950s, life becomes a gilded cage for Haruko Endo, the first
commoner to marry into the 2,000-year-old Japanese monarchy.
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Washington Post "Schwartz has written a mesmerizing novel full
of tenderness and compassion."
LITERARY
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Now You See Him
By Eli Gottlieb
A New York City literary darling shoots himself and his girlfriend;
his childhood friend tries to understand why as his own life falls
apart.
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Denver Post "Suspenseful novels usually carry secrets, but few
do so with the literary grace and intensity of [this one]."
LITERARY
Page 38
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Sway
By Zachary Lazar
Musicians and artists, including Mick Jagger and Keith Richards,
emerge in the 1960s.
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Boston Globe "An intimate and finely wrought examination of a
time when excitement about new ways of living often became frenzied
devotion to the avatars of that newness."
LITERARY
Page 43
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The Monsters of Templeton
By Lauren Groff
As a grad student learns about her biological father, she sorts
through letters, journals, and newspaper articles to piece together her
true family tree.
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San Francisco Chronicle "Reading this exquisite book is like
swimming through warm water filled with wondrous things--bizarre
grottoes, panoramas from history."
CRIME
Page 49
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Slip of the Knife
By Denise Mina
One of Scotland's leading newspaper columnists, Paddy Meehan,
is back--and finds out that her former lover, Terry, has been murdered,
possibly by the IRA.
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Times (London) "Meehan is irresistible, the dialogue sparkles
with wit."
GENERAL NF
Page 56
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
By Jennifer 8. lee
As American as mu shu pork.
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Rocky Mountain News "It's a journey into the complex
culture, history and economics that inform any Chinese restaurant in any
town."
GENERAL NF
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The Good Rat
By Jimmy Breslin
The Pulizter Prize-winning columnist revisits organized crime in
the late '80s and early '90s.
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USA Today "... classic gangland drama."
HISTORY
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This Republic of Suffering
Death and the American Civil War
By Drew Gilpin Faust
More soldiers died in the Civil War than in all other U.S. wars
combined. Faust explores the aftermath.
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Rocky Mountain News "... makes you think about the civil War
in a completely different way."
SCIENCE
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Physics of the Impossible
A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields,
Teleportation, and Time Travel
By Michio Kaku
The cofounder of string field theory explains why some of our
visions of the future just may come to fruition.
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Los Angeles Times "It's science as escapist
literature."
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