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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
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October 4, 2005
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Starred Review. Many will greet this taut, clear-eyed memoir of grief as a long-awaited return to the terrain of Didion's venerated, increasingly rare personal essays. The author of ...
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
April 4, 2005
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Oskar Schell, hero of this brilliant follow-up to Foer's bestselling ...
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt
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William Morrow
April 12, 2005
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Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that e...
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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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Crown
January 25, 2005
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"I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story." Amy Krouse Rosenthal, one-time Might magazine columnist and self-confessed hater of the segue has written a snappy, random, remarkable ...
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My Friend Leonard
James Frey
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June 1, 2005
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In the bold and heartbreaking My Friend Leonard, James Frey picks up the story of his extraordinary life pretty much where things left off in his breakout bestseller and Amazon.com Best Book of 2003, A Million Little Pieces, the fierce, in-your-face memoir about Frey's kamikaze run of self-destruction and ...
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Oh the Glory of It All
Sean Wilsey
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Penguin Press HC, The
May 19, 2005
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"A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are," writes Sean Wilsey, and indeed, ...
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
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April 5, 2005
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All children should believe they are special. But the students of Hailsham, an elite school in the English countryside, are so special that visitors shun them, and only by rumor and the occasional fleeting remark by a teacher do they discover their unconv...
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The History of Love: A Novel
Nicole Krauss
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W.W. Norton & Co.
May 2, 2005
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Nicole Krauss's The History of Love is a hauntingly beautiful novel about two characters whose lives are woven together in such complex ways that even after the last page is turned, the reader is left to wonder what really happened. In the hands of a less gifted writer, unraveling ...
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The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes) (v. 1, 2, 3)
Bill Watterson
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
October 4, 2005
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An Excerpt from Bill Watterson's Introduction: "I’ve loved comic strips as long as I can remember. As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as ...
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 5, 2005
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Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist. His aim, in his new book, ...
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A Man Without a Country
Kurt Vonnegut
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Seven Stories Press
September 15, 2005
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In his first book since 1999, it's just like old times as Vonnegut (now 82) makes with the deeply black humor in this collection of articles written over the last five years, many from the alternative magazine ...
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THE TENDER BAR
J.R. Moehringer
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Hyperion
August 31, 2005
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"Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me," asserts J.R. Moehringer, and his compelling memoir ...
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No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
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July 19, 2005
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Starred Review. Seven years after Cities of the Plain brought his acclaimed Border Trilogy to a close, McCarthy returns with a mesmerizing modern-day western. In 1980 southwest Texas, Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles across several dead men, a bunch of heroin and $2.4 million in ...
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On Beauty
Zadie Smith
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September 13, 2005
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In an author's note at the end of On Beauty, Zadie Smith writes: "My largest structural debt should be obvious to any E.M. Forster fan; suffice it to say he gave me a classy old frame, which I covered with new material as best I could." If ...
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Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs: The Definitive Pop-Up
Robert Sabuda
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Candlewick
July 12, 2005
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Kindergarten-Grade 4–Informational tidbits appear alongside exquisitely designed pop-up constructions in this visually stunning overview of all things dinosaur. Each spread features a spectacular paper sculpture of a particular species (e.g., Ankylosaurus or Triceratops) along with a brief paragraph of text. Smaller foldout sections, which open like miniature books and ...
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir (Alex Awards (Awards))
Jeannette Walls
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March 1, 2005
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Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In ...
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Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
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January 18, 2005
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The opening pages of a Haruki Murakami novel can be like the view out an airplane window onto tarmac. But at some point between page three and fifteen--it's page thirteen in ...
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Black Hole
Charles Burns
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October 18, 2005
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
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August 9, 2005
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1491 is not so much the story of a year, as of what that year stands for: the long-debated (and often-dismissed) question of what human civilization in the Americas was like before the Europeans crashed the party. The history books most Americans were (and still are) raised on describe ...
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Saturday
Ian McEwan
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Nan A. Talese
March 22, 2005
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In the predawn sky on a Saturday morning, London neurosurgeon Henry Perowne sees a plane with a wing afire streaking toward Heathrow. His first thought is terrorism--especially since this is the day of a public demonstration against the pending Iraq war. E...
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The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
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Little, Brown and Company
June 14, 2005
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If your pulse flutters at the thought of castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page of Elizabeth Kostova's long but beautifully structured thriller ...
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Mao: The Unknown Story
Jung Chang
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October 18, 2005
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In the epilogue to her biography of Mao Tse-tung, Jung Chang and her husband and cowriter Jon Halliday lament that, "Today, Mao's portrait and his corpse still dominate Tiananmen Square in the heart of the Chinese capital." For Chang, author of ...
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1776
David McCullough
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May 24, 2005
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Esteemed historian David McCullough covers the military side of the momentous year of 1776 with characteristic insight and a gripping narrative, adding new scholarship and a fresh perspective to the beginning of the American Revolution. It was a turbulent ...
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
Temple Grandin
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December 28, 2004
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Starred Review. Philosophers and scientists have long wondered what goes on in the minds of animals, and this fascinating study gives a wealth of illuminating insights into that mystery. Grandin, an animal behavior expert specializing in the design of humane slaughter systems, is autistic, and she contends that animals ...
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
J. K. Rowling
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Scholastic, Inc.
July 16, 2005
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The long-awaited, eagerly anticipated, arguably over-hyped ...
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God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
Jim Wallis
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January 11, 2005
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Secular liberals and religious conservatives will find things to both comfort and alarm them in Jim Wallis's ...
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Lunar Park
Bret Easton Ellis
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August 16, 2005
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Book Description: Imagine becoming a bestselling novelist, and almost immediately famous and wealthy, while still in college, and before long seeing your insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box, while after American Psycho your celebrity drowns in ...
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Specimen Days: A Novel
Michael Cunningham
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June 7, 2005
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Book Description: In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story that takes place at the height of ...
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