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Border Songs (Hardcover)

By Jim Lynch
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780307271174
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Published: Knopf, 06/01/2009

Cranky farmers, marijuana blackmarketeers, an autistic savant border agent, the "post 9/11 world", this novel has it all. I loved it.
Pat


By Jerome Charyn
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780393068566
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 02/01/2010

I'm reading an advance read copy of this now. It will be available Feb. 2010 It's a fantastic fictional autobiography of Emily Dickinson. Amazing writing, how have I never heard of this author?
Pat


By Matt Bondurant
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9781416561392
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Published: Scribner, 10/01/2008
A graphic and vibrant novel about a bootlegging family, with Sherwood Anderson (author of Winesburg Ohio) as a character in the book, in the role of an investigative journalist. Not for the faint of heart, but a great story, none -the -less. (Disregard the image, this is now in paperback.)

By Michael Chabon
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780061490187
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Published: Harper, 10/01/2009

Fans of Michael Chabon's excellent fiction will not be disappointed by his musings in this memoir. They demonstrate that he is "real people" and easy to connect to.
Pat


By Nick Flynn
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780393068160
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 01/01/2010
A thoughtful meditation on becoming a parent for the first time, during the age of terror. The author was present as some of the victims of Abu Garib were interviewed about their detention, and reveals some of his own tumultuous past. There is much to admire about his journey of self discovery. I should mention the author is also an award winning poet and the writing is beautiful. I loved this book.

By Ali Shaw
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9780805091144
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Published: Henry Holt and Co., 01/01/2010
Combining human realism with a visually rich imagined northern island landscape, The Girl With the Glass Feet is a fable based novel about a girl who's body is literally turning to glass. She falls in love with one of the islands inhabitants, who's own heart is hardened by past events. Beautiful and dreamlike prose move us through the main characters' alternate transformations.

By Michael Greenberg
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780307473547
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Published: Vintage, 09/01/2009

An eloquent memior recounting Michael Greenberg's adolescent daughter's bipolar break.
Pat


The Believers (Paperback)

By Zoe Heller
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061430213
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Published: Harper Perennial, 01/01/2010

When Joel Litvinoff, famed radical, controversial civil rights lawyer is suddenly stricken in the courtroom, ending up in a coma, the lives and leftist beliefs his wife and 4 adult children are thrown into a maelstrom. The sharp dialog and ripped from the headlines feel of this cerebral, contemporary family drama make this book hard to put down. If your husband has ever confessed to fantasies of being in a hot tub with Kristina Vanden Huevel, this book is for you.


By Colum Mccann
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780812973990
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 06/01/2010

One unforgettable character after another spin off of each other in this magnificent novel set in 1970's New York City, it's days of burning. The day Philip Petit walks a tightrope between The World Trade Towers is the pivotal day their random lives intersect, in tragedy and grace.
The book opens with a quote from Aleksander Hermon's The Lazarus Project.
'All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everyone. That is what the world is.'
It doesn't get more perfect than this! Read this book!
Pat


Lark and Termite (Paperback)

By Jayne Anne Phillips
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780375701931
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Published: Vintage, 01/01/2010

Lark and Termite is an intricate family saga involving a West Virginia family and a soldier involved in the No Gun Ri massacre during the Korean War. Highly original, with deeply affecting characters, I rooted for 17 year old Lark and her severely handicapped half brother Termite all the way through to a very satisfying ending.
Pat
“With her striking mixture of hallucinatory poetry and gritty realism, Phillips is trying to articulate the transcendence of love, the sort of unity among deeply devoted people that reverberates beneath the rational world.”
Ron Charles WaPo Book World


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