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Ian McEwan - Atonement
&#8220;A beautiful and majestic fictional panorama.&#8221; --John Updike, <i>The New Yorker</i><br>&#8220;Flat-out brilliant. . . . Lush, detailed, vibrantly colored and intense.&#8221; &#8211;<i>San Francisco Chronicle<br></i><br>&#8220;A tour de force. . . . Every bit as affecting as it is grippi ... More
Score: 4.1 12 Reviews
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Anna Politkovskaya - A Russian Diary
Written in the form of a diary, a stark account of life in twenty-first-century Russia offers an unflinching account of the plight of millions of Russian citizens and the corruption of the Putin presidency, in a final work by the acclaimed Russian journalist, murdered in October 2006. By the author ... More
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Ann Patchett - Bel Canto: A Novel
<p>Somewhere in South America at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band ... More
Score: 4.6 7 Reviews
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Sharon Olds - The Unswept Room
From Sharon Olds&#8212;a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.<br><br>From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation ... More
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Jan T. Gross - Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Documents the brutal 1941 massacre of 1,600 Jewish men, women, and children by their own neighbors in the Polish town of Jedwabne, offering additional examinations of the period's Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism.
Score: 1.0 1 Review
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John Updike - Rabbit Is Rich
The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are le ... More
Score: 4.5 2 Reviews
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Jonathan Harr - A Civil Action
This riveting work of legal reportage is at once the story of an emotionally explosive lawsuit and a searing expose of the American legal system. When young lawyer Jan Schlichtmann initiates a civil suit against two of the nation's largest corporations who stand accused of the deaths of children in ... More
Score: 4.8 10 Reviews
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Alice Munro - The Love of a Good Woman: Stories
A new collection of short stories by the celebrated writer introduces a rich cast of characters--including a stroke victim who will help a young bride identify the problem at the core of her marriage, a daughter who confronts her father about the open secret of his life, a nurse tending a dying pati ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Herbert P. Bix - Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
This biography of the emperor of Japan examines his formative years and how they shaped his character, his deft grasp of both the imperial system and modernity, his wielding of power and influence within his country, and that country's conflicts with major powers such as China and the United States. ... More
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel
In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams. By the author of Wonder Boys and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
Score: 4.7 11 Reviews
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Norman MacLean - Young Men & Fire
Norman MacLean scrupulously examines the tragic events of August 5, 1949, when lightning struck and started a forest fire in the Rocky Mountains. Thirteen young airborne firefighters were killed trying to extinguish it, when a 200-foot high firestorm erupted into a vast wall of death. MacLean, who h ... More
Score: 4.8 4 Reviews
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Carol Shields - The Stone Diaries
From her birth in rural Manitoba, to her journey with her father to southern Indiana, to her years as a wife, mother, and widow, to her old age, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to find a place for herself in her own life.
Score: 5.0 3 Reviews
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Chris Hedges - War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Laurie Garrett - Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
In this meticulously researched and ultimately explosive new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the <I>New York Times </I>bestseller <I>The Coming Plague</I>, Laurie Garrett takes readers across the globe to reveal how a series of potential and present public health catastrophes together f ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Fred Anderson - Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
Demonstrating that the decisive "Seven Years' War" changed the balance of power between the British and French in North America, the author argues that this conflict destroyed the delicate balance of power that gave Native people a voice in the affairs of the continent while creating an "American ge ... More
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Robert A. Caro - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro&#8217;s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. <b>Master of the Senate</b> takes Johnson&#8217;s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most a ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Richard Ellmann - Oscar Wilde
The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde--psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable, central to a alluring cultural world and someone whose life assumed an unbearably dramatic shape.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
The Lambert family isn't doing well. Alfred has Parkinson's disease and a bad case of alienation from his wife, Enid. Gary is a banker with a heart of steel. Chip is in New York City trying to find himself, but losing the battle. And Denise is stuck in a destructive affair with someone very unsuitab ... More
Score: 3.9 15 Reviews
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Richard Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb
A gripping, authoritative account of the men, women, science, drama and intrigue behind the single most important event of the century: the discovery of nuclear energy and construction of the atomic bomb. 32 pages of black-and-white photographs.
Score: 4.7 3 Reviews
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William Kennedy - Ironweed
This is the third novel in Kennedy's Albany Trilogy. Set in the 1930s, it explores the world of vagabonds through Francis Phelan, former baseball player turned hobo. Although the trilogy has recurring characters, one need not have read the previous two novels--LEGS and BILLY PHELAN'S GREATEST GAME-- ... More
Score: 4.0 2 Reviews
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Martin Amis - The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
In this comprehensive collection of essays, Martin Amis tackles such diverse subjects as Elvis, Margaret Thatcher, Andy Warhol, the Guinness Book of Records, Abraham Lincoln, poker, chess, and American movies. He also comments pungently on a variety of literary works, including PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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David Hajdu - Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina
Discusses how Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Mimi and Richard Farina gathered together in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, chronicling their rise from coffeehouse folksingers to popular icons.
Score: 5.0 4 Reviews
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E.L. Doctorow - Billy Bathgate: A Novel
Billy Bathgate is an urban Huck Finn who comes of age in New York City in the 1930s as the protege of Dutch Schultz, one of the most abominable gangsters of his time, but one of life's great teachers as well.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Joyce Johnson - Minor Characters: A Young Woman's Coming-Of-Age in the Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac
Twenty-one-year-old Joyce Johnson, an aspiring novelist and a secretary at a New York literary agency, fell in love with Jack Kerouac on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg nine months before the publication of On the Road made Kerouac an instant celebrity. While Kerouac traveled to Tangiers, Sa ... More
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Harriet A. Washington - Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Books
In this study of race, medicine, and history, Harriet A. Washington provides an in-depth account of three centuries of medical experimentation on African Americans by the medical community, and the ideas that lay behind it all. Carried out without the knowledge or consent of the subjects, this so-ca ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Joyce Carol Oates - A Garden of Earthly Delights
<b>The first book in Oates&#8217;s famous trilogy that includes Expensive People and the National Book Award winner them</b><br><br>In her second novel, Joyce Carol Oates, author of many bestselling novels, including <i>We Were the Mulvaneys</i> and Blonde, created one of her most memorable heroines ... More
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David Nasaw - The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
David Nasaw's magnificent, definitive biography of William Randolph Hearst is based on newly released private and business papers and interviews. For the first time, documentation of Hearst's interactions with Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, and every American president from Grover Cleveland to Frankl ... More
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Philip F. Gura - American Transcendentalism: A History
A history of the major intellectual movement of 19th-century America, Mark Gura's AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM provides an overview of its major ideas and personalities, while grounding it in a spirit of reform and progressivism. Gura identifies the seeds of this movement in Europe, and shows how (an ... More
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James Tobin - Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II
A National Book Critics Circle Award-winning classic documents the career of the World War II combat reporter while describing his coverage of the experiences of everyday soldiers, his receipt of a Pulitzer Prize, and his death during the Okinawa campaign.
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Aleksandar Hemon - Nowhere Man
<b>Aleksandar Hemon, author of T<i>he Question of Bruno, </i>one of the most celebrated debuts in recent American fiction, returns with the mind- and language-bending adventures of his endearing protagonist Jozef Pronek. <br></b><br>This is what we know about Jozef Pronek: He is a young man from Sar ... More
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