Schulz and Peanuts.
EXCELLENT
Sparky's genius.
If Charlie Brown was the 20th century's most lovable loser,
then his creator, Charles Schulz, was its poet of disappointment.
Peanuts changed the definition of what . . .
The Florist's Daughter.
EXCELLENT
A chip off both blocks.
In this moving ode to her unassuming, working-class parents, Stan
and Mary Hampl, memoirist Patricia Hampl revisits the past as she
witnesses her mother's last . . .
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History.(Book review)
EXCELLENT
The lasting legacy of misbehavior.
In her latest work, Harvard historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
reclaims the famous saying she penned in a 1978 academic article and
traces the paths . . .
Other Colors.
EXCELLENT
Self-portrait of an artist.
In the 75 essays, musings, sketches, speeches, and anecdotes
collected here, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk provides a detailed picture
of his literary origins . . .
Musicophilia.
EXCELLENT
Tales of Music and the Brain
The sound of music.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said that music "whispers to us dim
secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are." In a series of
case . . .
Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts.(Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The
American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground)(Book
EXCELLENT
The view from the ground.
The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground
In Imperial Grunts (2005), Robert D. Kaplan, a national
correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, . . .
The Braindead Megaphone.
EXCELLENT
Laughter, the best medicine?
In his first collection of essays, award-winning short story writer
George Saunders has created something of a grab bag; the
"essays" include everything . . .
One for Sorrow.
EXCELLENT
A ghost of a chance for adolescent outsiders.
When Jamie Marks is murdered outside of Youngstown, Ohio, the
boy's ghost appears to Gracie Highsmith, the classmate who
discovered his . . .
Nova Swing.(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Adventures at the end of time, space, and narrative.
In M. John Harrison's novel Light (2002), characters from
across time and space are drawn toward a disturbance in . . .
The Kingdom of Bones.(The Kingdom of Bones: A Novel)(Book
review)
EXCELLENT
Love, death, and the occult--Victorian style.
Falsely accused of serial murder, retired bare-knuckle champion Tom
Sayers, now part of a traveling theater company, fights for his life . . .
Axis.
EXCELLENT
A new world.
In the Hugo Award-winning Spin (EXCELLENT Selection Sept/ Oct
2005), a space probe reveals a time warp around Earth. In this sequel,
the second novel of a projected . . .
Heartsick.
EXCELLENT
A gorgeous killer toys with her prey.
Beautiful and twisted, psychiatrist Gretchen Lowell tortured and
killed 200 people before turning herself in just as detective Archie
Sheridan, . . .
Down River.
EXCELLENT
Dangerous waters.
When Adam Chase returns to his North Carolina hometown after living
in New York City, he does not receive a friendly welcome. His departure
from Rowan County five . . .
The Quiet Girl.
EXCELLENT
Love and psychic powers.
In a near-future Denmark, 40-something Kaspar Krone, a renowned
circus clown and Bach aficionado, uses his psychic abilities to
understand people through the . . .
Dexter in the Dark.
EXCELLENT
A deliciously devious diversion.
Dexter Morgan, a Miami PD bloodspatter specialist, has a secret: he
is a serial killer. His foster father, a policeman, recognized
Dexter's urges at a . . .
Blonde Faith.
EXCELLENT
The 10th--and final--installment?
LA detective Easy Rawlins debuted in Devil in a Blue Dress (1990)
as a returning World War II soldier; nine books later, it's 1967,
and the issues . . .
The Almost Moon.
FAIR
A case of matricide.
"When all is said and done, killing my mother came
easily." Helen Knightly, a middleaged Philadelphia divorcee, has
sacrificed her marriage and family to care for her . . .
Exit Ghost.
GOOD
Zuckerman's last stand.
A few days before George Bush's reelection in 2004,
71-year-old Nathan Zuckerman emerges from 11 years of writing in
selfimposed isolation. He returns to New York . . .
The Air We Breathe.
GOOD
Personal and national illness
In 1916, as the United States debates entering World War I, a group
of patients at Tamarack State Sanatorium for the Treatment of
Tuberculosis in the . . .
The Abstinence Teacher.(Book review)
GOOD
Prayer and sex in American culture.
Ruth Ramsay, a single mother and an ousted sex education teacher,
and Tim Mason, a bornagain soccer coach who found sobriety and . . .
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