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A Million Little Pieces
James Frey
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Nan A. Talese
April 15, 2003
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News from Doubleday & Anchor Books The controversy over James Frey's A Million Little Pieces has caused serious concern at Doubleday and Anchor Books. Recent interpretations of our previous statement notwithstanding, it is not the policy or stance of this company that it doesn’t matter whether ...
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The Time Traveler's Wife (Today Show Book Club #15)
Audrey Niffenegger
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MacAdam/Cage
September 17, 2003
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This clever and inventive tale works on three levels: as an intriguing science fiction concept, a realistic character study and a touching love story. Henry De Tamble is a Chicago librarian with "Chrono Displacement" disorder; at random times, he suddenly ...
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Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Anthony Swofford
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Scribner
March 4, 2003
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A witty, profane, down-in-the-sand account of the war many only know from CNN, this former sniper's debut is a worthy addition to the battlefield memoir genre. There isn't a bit of heroic posturing as Swofford describes the sheer terror of being fired upon...
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis
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W.W. Norton & Co.
May 10, 2003
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Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's ...
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Shutter Island: A Novel
Dennis Lehane
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William Morrow
April 15, 2003
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Know this: Lehane's new novel, his first since the highly praised and bestselling Mystic River, carries an ending so shocking yet so faithful to what has come before, that it will go down as one of the most aesthetically right resolutions ever written. But...
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The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel
Jonathan Lethem
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Doubleday
September 16, 2003
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If there still remains any doubt, this novel confirms Lethem's status as the poet of Brooklyn and of motherless boys. Projected through the prism of race relations, black music and pop art, Lethem's stunning, disturbing and authoritatively observed narrati...
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson
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Crown
February 11, 2003
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Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that ...
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Liars and Saints
Maile Meloy
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Scribner
June 1, 2003
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Opening with a wedding and ending with a funeral, Maile Meloy stuffs everything imaginable in between, and manages to maintain a cool, elegant prose style throughout. ...
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Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker
James McManus
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 16, 2003
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In 2000, novelist and poet James McManus was sent to Las Vegas, innocently enough, by ...
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
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Scribner
January 28, 2003
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Politicians rail about welfare queens, crack babies and deadbeat dads, but what do they know about the real struggle it takes to survive being poor? Journalist LeBlanc spent some 10 years researching and interviewing one extended family-mother Lourdes, dau...
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The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
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Doubleday
March 18, 2003
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With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history. A murder in the silent after-hour ...
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
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Simon & Schuster
July 1, 2003
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Benjamin Franklin, writes journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson, was that rare Founding Father who would sooner wink at a passer-by than sit still for a formal portrait. What's more, Isaacson relates in this fluent and entertaining biography, the revol...
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Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point
David Lipsky
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Houghton Mifflin
July 4, 2003
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Individuality would not seem to be a highly prized virtue at West Point. After all, new cadets arriving at the military academy are not required to pack anything more than a toothbrush and some underwear since they will be issued everything else. But despi...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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Broadway
May 6, 2003
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From primordial nothingness to this very moment, A Short History of Nearly Everything reports what happened and how humans figured it out. To accomplish this daunting literary task, Bill Bryson uses hundreds of sources, from popular science books to interviews with ...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Today Show Book Club #13)
Mark Haddon
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Doubleday
July 31, 2003
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Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home ...
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They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967
David Maraniss
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Simon & Schuster
October 1, 2003
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Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Maraniss (When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi) intertwines two compelling narratives to capture the Vietnam War at home and on the battlefield as well as, if not better than, any book yet written...
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi
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Random House
March 25, 2003
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An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, ...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
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W. W. Norton & Company
April 1, 2003
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"Uproariously funny" doesn't seem a likely description for a book on cadavers. However, Roach, a Salon and Reader's Digest columnist, has done the nearly impossible and written a book as informative and respectful as it is irreverent and witty. From her op...
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Simon Winchester
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HarperCollins
April 1, 2003
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It may seem a stretch to connect a volcanic eruption with civil and religious unrest in Indonesia today, but Simon Winchester makes a compelling case. ...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)
J. K. Rowling
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Arthur A. Levine Books
June 21, 2003
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As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. It's...
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Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death (Man Booker Prize)
D. B. C. Pierre
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Canongate Books
October 1, 2003
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The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, ...
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Madam Secretary: A Memoir
Madeleine Albright
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Miramax
September 16, 2003
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Albright proposes to "combine the personal with policy" in these memoirs, a sensible narrative strategy, considering her emblematic struggles as a working mother breaking through the glass ceiling of the foreign policy establishment to become U.N. ambassad...
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Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
David Quammen
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W. W. Norton & Company
September 8, 2003
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As the subtitle of David Quammen's Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind suggests, his fascination centers on those animals that raise human "awareness of being meat," and he likens the historic impact of these predators to modern-day car accidents: sudden, unexpected, ...
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Caroline Alexander
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Viking Adult
September 15, 2003
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Surely this exhaustingly-researched, enthralling and enthusiastically-written tome is the last word on the most famous of all seafaring mutinies, that of shipmate Fletcher Christian and against Lieutenant Bligh on the Bounty. More than 200 years have...
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The Colossus of New York: A City in 13 Parts
Colson Whitehead
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Doubleday
October 21, 2003
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Whitehead (The Intuitionist; John Henry Days) lays out a wildly creative view of New York City. To out-of-towners, Gotham is about famous places, but Whitehead's New York is not. It's more about a way of seeing. For example, "No matter how long you have be...
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Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross
Alex Ross
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Pantheon
October 21, 2003
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With art that looks like a hybrid of Norman Rockwell and Jack Kirby, artist Ross has become the preeminent painter of superheroes of his generation. This lavish coffee- table tribute puts him into a pantheon as exalted as the superbeings he depicts. The so...
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Ilium
Dan Simmons
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Eos
July 22, 2003
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Genre-hopping Dan Simmons returns to science fiction with the vast and intricate masterpiece ...
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Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America
Amy Sutherland
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Viking Adult
October 9, 2003
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In this engrossing look at the competitive cooking circuit, journalist Sutherland follows the trail of competitions and a small group of regular participants. These often fanatical competitors, complete with their own Web sites and chat rooms, square off a...
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