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Jeffrey Eugenides and Benito Gomez Ibanez - Middlesex
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s. By the author of The Virgin
Score: 4.5 12 Reviews
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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 13 Reviews
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Sylvia Nasar - Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
This biography analyzes how Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash's eccentric personality helped him to develop revolutionary mathematical processes, and chronicles the transformation of this prolific eccentricity into a 30-year bout of paranoid schizophrenia and eventual recovery in 1990. Nas ... More
Score: 4.2 4 Reviews
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Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child--and the lack of understanding that led to tragedy.
Score: 3.8 6 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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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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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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Edward Hirsch - Wild Gratitude: Poems
A new edition of an early work by the author of On Love presents a series of poems that deal with the themes of art and artists, loneliness, night, nature, heroism, death, love, hope, and sadness. Reprint.
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Gina Berriault - Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories
This remarkable collection received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, a gold medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award.
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Gary Giddins - Visions of Jazz: The First Century
Gary Giddins' idiosyncratic series of essays on key figures in 20th-century jazz doesn't pretend to be an all-inclusive guide to the key players in the first century of the music's history; his introduction makes plain that, aside from obvious inclusions like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, he r ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Edmund S. Morgan - Benjamin Franklin
The author's award-winning portrait of this most American of American Founding Fathers introduces readers to the great contradictions and extraordinary accomplishments of this master statesman, scientist, inventor, businessman, author, and first postmaster of the nation. Reprint. (Biography)
Score: 3.0 1 Review
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Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses: Movie Tie-In Edition
The first volume in McCarthy's Border Trilogy, ALL THE PRETTY HORSES begins with the death of John Grady Cole's grandfather. John Grady, age 16, has lived with his grandfather for much of his life, and when the old man dies and the family home--a ranch in Texas--is sold, John Grady and his old frien ... More
Score: 4.5 15 Reviews
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Amy Bloom - A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories
A new collection of stories by the celebrated author of Love Invents Us introduces a new cast of characters who search for love and satisfaction in a difficult and painful world.
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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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 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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Ted Conover - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
A journalist recounts the year he spent as a corrections officer at the notorious prison, offering a true insider's view of the culture of its guards--both idealistic "new jacks" like himself and brutally hardened veterans, prison rituals like strip frisks and cell searches, and the impasse between ... More
Score: 4.4 5 Reviews
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Philip Gourevitch - We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Decimation means the killing of every tenth person in a population, and in the spring and early summer of 1994 a program of massacres decimated the Republic of Rwanda. Although the killing was low-tech--performed largely by machete--it was carried out at dazzling speed: of an original population of ... More
Score: 4.8 4 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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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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Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
First you took [the title] at face value, and picked it up immediately. "This is just the sort of book for which I have been looking!" Many of you, particularly those among you who seek out the maudlin and melodramatic, were struck by the "Heartbreaking" part. Others thought the "Staggering Genius" ... More
Score: 4.1 35 Reviews
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Carol Shields and Alyss Bresnahan - 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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Jonathan Lethem and Frank Muller - Motherless Brooklyn
From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.<br><br>Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in st ... More
Score: 4.3 3 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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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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Winfried Georg Sebald - Austerlitz
<i>Austerlitz</i>, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by &#8220;one of the most gripping writers imaginable&#8221; (<i>The New York Review of Books</i>), is the story of a man&#8217;s search for the answer to his life&#8217;s central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a <i>Kin ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Jacques Barzun - From Dawn to Decadence
Barzun unpacks a lifetime of learning in this comprehensive overview of history and culture. The distinguished historian reexamines major themes in Western civilization from the Renaissance through modern times.
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Robin Marantz Henig - The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
In THE MONK IN THE GARDEN, award-winning author Robin Marantz Henig vividly evokes a little-known chapter in science, taking us back to the birth of genetics, a field that continues to challenge the way we think about life itself. Shrouded in mystery, Gregor Mendel's quiet life and discoveries make ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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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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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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