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|  | Kidder, Tracy STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINS
June 15, 2009 - A tale of ethnocide, exile and healing by a master of narrative nonfiction...Terrifying at turns, but tremendously inspiring...a key document in the growing literature devoted to postgenocidal justice.
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| | Byatt, A.S. THE CHILDREN'S BOOK
June 15, 2009 - Byatt encompasses the paradigm shift from Victorian to modern England in a sweeping tale of four families...The deeper subject, however, is the complex, not always benign bond that attaches children to adults...Ambitious, accomplished and intelligent in the author's vintage manner.
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| Current Issue: Fiction |
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 | Casares, Oscar AMIGOLAND
July 01, 2009 - In a Texas border town, two estranged brothers live mere miles apart. Don Fidencio, in his 90s, is the quintessential cantankerous old man. His grumbling provides comic relief from the pain he experiences at Amigoland, the nursing home in which his |
| Conroy, Pat SOUTH OF BROAD
July 01, 2009 - The title refers, meaningfully, to a section of Charleston, S.C., and, as with so many Southern tales, one great story begets another and another. This one starts most promisingly: "Nothing happens by accident." Indeed. The Greeks knew that, and so |
| Hinger, Charlotte DEADLY DESCENT
July 01, 2009 - Lottie Albright has married an older man and moved to his home in a small western Kansas town, much to the disgust of her twin sister, clinical psychologist Josie. Lottie finds plenty to occupy her time as director of the Carlton County Historical |
| Koryta, Michael THE SILENT HOUR
July 01, 2009 - While his partner Joe is in Florida considering retirement, Linc drifts around their Cleveland office ignoring mail and phone calls until the door opens to admit Parker Harrison, who's been trying to reach him for months. Parker, paroled 13 years |
| Moriarty, Laura WHILE I'M FALLING
July 01, 2009 - Veronica Von Holten's father, a lawyer who raided his retirement when times grew lean, and her mother Natalie, a stay-at-home mom who had once been a teacher, separate after Dad catches a strange man asleep in his own bed. After the family house is |
| Rowson, Pauline DEAD MAN'S WHARF
July 01, 2009 - There's nothing like a murder to make a trivial matter assume more weight. Take Mr. Kingsway's complaint that someone assaulted his mother at the Rest Haven Nursing Home. Sounds like the ramblings of a senile old bat—except that Irene Ebury, the |
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| Balz, Dan THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA 2008
July 01, 2009 - By this account, the 2008 presidential campaign began in 2005 "Though George W. Bush no longer was on the ballot," write the authors, "his shadow hovered over all that followed." One of the things that undid Republican candidate John McCain, they |
| Brinkley, Douglas THE WILDERNESS WARRIOR
July 01, 2009 - Brinkley (History/Rice Univ.; The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, 2006, etc.) makes an important contribution to our understanding of Theodore—never "Teddy" to anyone who knew him, Brinkley |
| Dickstein, Morris DANCING IN THE DARK
July 01, 2009 - In this scholarly yet immensely readable study, Dickstein (English/CUNY; A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature in the Real World, 2005, etc.) examines how the artistic culture of the '30s served a dual function. It helped people understand and cope |
| Farmelo, Graham THE STRANGEST MAN
July 01, 2009 - During the 1920s, using dazzling mathematical skills, Dirac combined Einstein's theory of relativity with Schrödinger and Heisenberg's theories of quantum physics. This inspired work, which predicted the existence of antimatter, remains essential to |
| Masters, Hilary IN ROOMS OF MEMORY
July 01, 2009 - "Memory is a room always hitched to our travels," writes Masters (English/Carnegie Mellon Univ.; Elegy for Sam Emerson, 2006, etc.). That room gets a thorough airing as the aging author looks back on a rich literary life, which has included an |
| Current Issue: Children's |
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| Binding, Tim SYLVIE AND THE SONGMAN
July 01, 2009 - This finely tuned adventure opens with William Blake's "The Tyger" and lives up to that reference in surprisingly accessible ways. Sylvie lives with her composer father and "comfortable, obstinate dog" Mr Jackson. They miss mum, who disappeared into |
| Collins, Suzanne CATCHING FIRE
July 01, 2009 - In the sequel to the hugely popular The Hunger Games (2008), Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, having won the annual Games, are now rich and famous—and trapped in the fiction that they are lovers. They are seen as a threat to the Capitol, their |
| Cousins, Lucy YUMMY
July 01, 2009 - In a considerable change of pace, Cousins steps away from Maisy's toddler-friendly world for short but briskly savage versions of several classic tales. Here the Little Red Hen refuses to share her bread with anyone, Foxy Loxy gobbles down Henny |
| Ct, Genevi've ME AND YOU
July 01, 2009 - Not to be confused with another, equally pleasing 2009 book of the same name, by Janet A. Holmes and illustrated by Judith Rossell, this tale of two friends goes ear-to-ear and tail-to-tail between a rabbit and a pig. Standing side by side, each |
| Deedy, Carmen Agra 14 COWS FOR AMERICA
July 01, 2009 - Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah is about to return home, to a small village in Kenya. He has been studying to become a doctor in the United States. Amid a joyous homecoming, the children in the village ask if he has brought any stories. He has only one; one |
| Gay, Marie-Louise WHEN STELLA WAS VERY, VERY SMALL
July 01, 2009 - Stella has always been a fountain of creative knowledge, offering her little brother Sam the benefits of her vivid imagination. In previous works they have had adventures by the seashore, in the forest and in the snow. Now Gay offers her readers |
| Gifford, Peggy MOXY MAXWELL DOES NOT LOVE PRACTICING THE PIANO
July 01, 2009 - Prime procrastinator and drama queen Moxy Maxwell is about to take the stage for real, making her Piano Debut at the Palace Theater, playing "Heart and Soul" with her little sister, Patsy. True, there is the scary note from the piano teacher. But |
| Holmes, Janet A. ME AND YOU
July 01, 2009 - There are many things this bunny is proud to be able to do—sit still, jump, somersault, ride a bike, make sand castles and dig holes, for a start. Rossell's cheerful and appealing pictures play an important role here and complement the text |
| Spires, Ashley BINKY THE SPACE CAT
July 01, 2009 - Pudgy black-and-white kitty Binky lives on a space station, where, like any good member of F.U.R.S.T. (Felines of the Universe Ready for Space Travel), he protects his two humans from aliens. Binky's humans call the aliens "bugs," and the space |
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June 30, 2009 - In How Fiction Works, the tutorial by the New Yorker critic and Harvard professor, James Wood writes, "Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life. And so on and on."...Contemporary fiction has produced few noticers with a better eye and more engaging voice than Tassie Keltjin, the narrator of Lorrie Moore's deceptively powerful A Gate at the Stairs.
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