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|  | Ball, Jesse THE WAY THROUGH DOORS
December 15, 2008 - Surreal tale from Ball (Samedi the Deafness, 2007, etc.), an assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, of a young pamphleteer, a Coney Island guess artist and their joint effort to search for and save an amnesiac woman
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| | Gilman, Susan Jane UNDRESS ME IN THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN
December 15, 2008 - Bestselling memoirist Gilman (Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress, 2005, etc.) recalls ill-fated post-collegiate travels. The author's around-the-world backpacking trip began in September 1986 with a perilous nosedive into Hong Kong's international airport that prompted Gilman to reflect on her motives
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| Current Issue: Fiction |
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 | Goolrick, Robert A RELIABLE WIFE
January 01, 2009 - After breaking through with a disquieting memoir about his Southern childhood, Goolrick (The End of the World as We Know It, 2007) applies his storytelling talents to a debut novel, set in 1907, about icy duplicity and heated vengeance. The autumn |
| Littell, Jonathan THE KINDLY ONES
January 01, 2009 - Littell's novel, originally published in France in 2006, won two of that country's literary prizes, the Goncourt and the Prix de Littrature. At the center of the narrative is Dr. Maximilian Aue. Aue is a faithful Nazi servant, but he's also |
| Rock, Peter MY ABANDONMENT
January 01, 2009 - Caroline and Father had lived in the spacious park in Portland, Ore., for four years, Caroline tells us via her journal. After Caroline's mother's death, Father and Caroline were temporarily separated, but when Caroline was nine Father removed her |
| Torday, Paul BORDEAUX
January 01, 2009 - The subtitle denotes four years (2006–02) in the life of protagonist and narrator Wilberforce (his first name initially withheld), who creates a successful computer software company, sells it in order to accept an irresistible offer and thereafter |
| Wiesel, Elie A MAD DESIRE TO DANCE
January 01, 2009 - "Is a madman who knows he's mad really mad?" the narrator imagines the reader asking on the first page of the novel. "Or: In a mad world, isn't the madman who is aware of his madness the only sane person?" The novel's self-absorbed protagonist, |
| Current Issue: Nonfiction |
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| Lockhart, Sybil MOTHER IN THE MIDDLE
January 01, 2009 - It was after the birth of her first child that Lockhart, a neurobiologist turned freelance writer, first became aware that her mother Ruthie, a retired schoolteacher, was becoming uncharacteristically forgetful and semi-incoherent, unable to recall |
| Current Issue: Children's |
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| Stone, Tanya Lee ALMOST ASTRONAUTS
January 01, 2009 - The fascinating, dramatic story of the "Mercury 13," a group of women aviators who proved to be as courageous, intelligent and fit as any man, but who were nonetheless barred from NASA's astronaut program because of their gender. At the center of |
| Tan, Shaun TALES FROM OUTER SUBURBIA
January 01, 2009 - Nameless, ageless, genderless first-person narrators bring readers into offbeat yet recognizable places in this sparkling, mind-bending collection from the creator of The Arrival (2007). In "Our Expedition," siblings set out to see if anything |
| van Lieshout, Elle LOVEY AND DOVEY
January 01, 2009 - A winsome prison fable from the Netherlands. Lovey and Dovey, she plump, he thin as a rail, both clad in prison stripes, have "stolen each other's hearts"—but that's not why they languish in Katakom. They also stole a pair of blue socks, which they |
| Winter, Jonah GERTRUDE IS GERTRUDE IS GERTRUDE IS GERTRUDE
January 01, 2009 - Gertrude is Gertrude and a rose is a rose and Jonah and Calef are writer and artist. If Gertrude were alive then Gertrude would love this. Children, too? They probably will because the colors are colors and rich in their colors and surprising, too, |
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| The Cheever Chronicles
December 15, 2008 - Despite his many climactic achievements, it is John Cheever as storyteller that most readers prize above his other incarnations. The Library of America's irresistible collection includes the complete contents of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1978 "Stories," plus handfuls of uncollected stories and others published in Cheever's essentially disowned 1941 debut collection "The Way Some People Live." All 75 of these are incontestably worth reading, and many have taken up permanent residence in their readers' memories.
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