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Skeletons at the Feast | CHRIS BOHJALIAN: Inspired by an actual
World War II diary. PREVIOUSLY: The Double Bind (*** May/June 2007) and
Before You Know Kindness (**** seLectIon Jan/Feb 2005). MAY
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Snuff | CHUCK PALAHNIUK: On the set of a pornographic movie.
PREVIOUSLY: Fight Club (1996). RECENTLY REVIEWED: Rant: An Oral History
of Buster Casey (*** July/Aug 2007). MAY
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City of Thieves | DAVID BENIOFF: A writer interviews his
grandparents about their experience during the siege of Leningrad.
PREVIOUSLY: The 25th Hour (2001). MAY
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The Lazarus Project | ALEKSANDAR HEMON: The sophomore novel from
the short story author and MacArthur "genius grant" winner.
PREVIOUSLY: Nowhere Man (2002). MAY
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The Gift of Rain | TAN TWAN ENG: This debut novel was previously
nominated for the Man Booker Prize. Before World War II, a half-British,
half-Chinese young man grows up on a Malaysian island, befriending a
Japanese neighbor prior to the Japanese invasion of Malaya. MAY
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Intercourse | ROBERT OLEN BUTLER: New short stories from a master
of the form. PREVIOUSLY: The Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a
Strange Mountain (1992). MAY
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Killing Rommel | STEVEN PRESSFIELD: The author turns from previous
efforts on war in ancient times to this World War II thriller.
PREVIOUSLY: Gates of Fire (1998). MAY
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Bright Shiny Morning | JAMES FREY: However fictitious A Million
Little Pieces (2003) may have been, this work is officially labeled as
such. Here, lives intersect in contemporary Los Angeles, from movie
stars to the homeless. MAY
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The Legend of Colton H. Bryant | ALEXANDRA FULLER: A coming-of-age
story by the author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
(2001). MAY
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We Are Now Beginning Our Descent | JAMES MEEK: A frustrated war
correspondent in post-9/11 Afghanistan would rather be a famous
novelist--but isn't. This is a change of pace from Meek's
previously acclaimed The People's Act of Love (***** SELECTION
Mar/Apr 2006). MAY
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The Other | DAVID GUTERSON: John drops out of college to live alone
in the woods, and only his friend Neil knows his location. PREVIOUSLY:
Snow Falling on Cedars (1994). JUNE
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The Garden of Last Days | ANDRE DUBUS III: A stripper brings her
daughter to work--the babysitter is sick--and deals with the patrons.
One is rich and entitled, another other drunk and angry. PREVIOUSLY:
House of Sand and Fog (1999. An Oprah Book Club selection and National
Book Award finalist). JUNE
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December | ELIZABETH HARTLEY WINTHROP: Winthrop's sophomore
novel tells of an eleven-year-old girl who hasn't spoken for a
year. JUNE
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The Enchantress of Florence | SALMAN RUSHDIE: A European travels to
the court of the Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, claiming to be the son
of a lost Mughal princess. She was supposedly captured years ago and
became the lover of a Florentine soldier. PREVIOUSLY: Midnight's
Children (1981) and The Satanic Verses (1988). RECENTLY REVIEWED:
Shalimar the Clown (**** SELECTION Nov/dec 2005). JUNE
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