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Suite Française
by Sandra Smith
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April 11, 2006
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Celebrated in pre-WWII France for her bestselling fiction, the Jewish Russian-born Némirovsky was shipped to Auschwitz in the summer of 1942, months after this long-lost masterwork was composed. Némirovsky, a convert to Catholicism, began a planned five-novel cycle as Nazi forces overran northern France in 1940. This ...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
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(849 customer reviews)
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Penguin Press
April 11, 2006
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[Signature]Reviewed by Pamela KaufmanPollan (The Botany of Desire) examines what he calls "our national eating disorder" (the Atkins craze, the precipitous rise in obesity) in this remarkably clearheaded book. It's a fascinating journey up and down the food chain, one that might change the way you read the label ...
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The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
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(1,193 customer reviews)
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Atria Books
September 12, 2006
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Amazon.com Review
Settle down to enjoy a rousing good ghost story with Diane Setterfield's debut novel, ...
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Sharp Objects: A Novel
by Gillian Flynn
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 (1,246 customer reviews)
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September 26, 2006
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Amazon.com Review
As loyal Entertainment Weekly subscribers, we have been fans of Gillian Flynn for her smart, funny, and spot-on reviews of books, movies, and TV, but we were not prepared for her stunning debut novel Sharp Objects, a wickedly dark thriller that Stephen King calls a "relentlessly creepy family saga" ...
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The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
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 (291 customer reviews)
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August 29, 2006
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Marina Thwaite, Danielle Minkoff and Julian Clarke were buddies at Brown, certain that they would soon do something important in the world. But as all near 30, Danielle is struggling as a TV documentary maker, and Julius is barely surviving financially as ...
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
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(415 customer reviews)
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August 8, 2006
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Starred Review. Wright, a New Yorker writer, brings exhaustive research and delightful prose to one of the best books yet on the history of terrorism. He begins with the observation that, despite an impressive record of terror and assassination, post–WWarII, Islamic militants failed to establish theocracies in any ...
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The Places In Between
by Rory Stewart
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(234 customer reviews)
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May 8, 2006
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We never really find out why Stewart decided to walk across Afghanistan only a few months after the Taliban were deposed, but what emerges from the last leg of his two-year journey across Asia is a lesson in good travel writing. By turns harrowing and medi...
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
by Bill Buford
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(218 customer reviews)
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May 30, 2006
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Amazon.com Review
Bill Buford's funny and engaging book Heat offers readers a rare glimpse behind the scenes in Mario Batali's kitchen. Who better to review the book for Amazon.com, than Anthony Bourdain, the man who first introduced readers to the wide array of lusty and colorful characters in the restaurant ...
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
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(2,796 customer reviews)
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September 26, 2006
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Amazon.com Review
Best known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as "an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century," Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and often brutal novels, including the bestselling No Country for Old Men, and The Road. Profoundly dark, ...
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Caesar: Life of a Colossus
by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
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(103 customer reviews)
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Yale University Press
September 22, 2006
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The man who virtually defined the West's concept of leadership comes alive in this splendid biography. Military historian Goldsworthy (The Complete Roman Army) gives a comprehensive, vigorous account of Caesar's conquest of Gaul and his victories in the civil war that made him master of Rome. ...
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
by Elizabeth Kolbert
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(76 customer reviews)
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Bloomsbury USA
March 7, 2006
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Starred Review. On the burgeoning shelf of cautionary but occasionally alarmist books warning about the consequences of dramatic climate change, Kolbert's calmly persuasive reporting stands out for its sobering clarity. Expanding on a three-part series for the New Yorker, Kolbert (The Prophet of Love) lets facts rather than polemics ...
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Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again
by Ina Garten
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(197 customer reviews)
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Clarkson Potter
October 24, 2006
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From Publishers Weekly
Garten's fifth cookbook (after Barefoot in Paris) follows her surefire formula: uncomplicated but elegant recipes for the home cook whose priority is spending time with friends and family, not in the kitchen. From breakfast to dessert, the Food Network star organizes this volume by meal, with an easy-to-navigate recipe ...
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I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
by Amy Sedaris
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(298 customer reviews)
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Grand Central Publishing
October 16, 2006
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Starred Review. Sedaris's sidesplitting guide to throwing parties hopes to return readers to the times when the word "entertainment" was "charmingly old-fashioned, like courtship or back alley abortions." While her tongue is firmly in cheek, novice party-planners will actually find some helpful hints along the way as Sedaris ...
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama
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(926 customer reviews)
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October 17, 2006
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Amazon.com Review
Barack Obama's first book, Dreams from My Father, was a compelling and moving memoir focusing on personal issues of race, identity, and community. With his second book The Audacity of Hope, Obama engages themes raised in his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, shares personal views on ...
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks
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(370 customer reviews)
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July 25, 2006
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Amazon.com Review
Fiasco is a more strongly worded title than you might expect a seasoned military reporter such as Thomas E. Ricks to use, accustomed as he is to the even-handed style of daily newspaper journalism. But Ricks, the Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post and the author of the acclaimed ...
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Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song
by Les Beletsky
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(264 customer reviews)
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Chronicle Books
September 21, 2006
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Drawing from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Bird Songs presents the most notable North American birds...
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Water for Elephants: A Novel
by Sara Gruen
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(5,239 customer reviews)
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May 26, 2006
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Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of ...
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
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(2,451 customer reviews)
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September 12, 2006
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Brooks, the author of the determinedly straight-faced parody ...
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Cell: A Novel
by Stephen King
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January 24, 2006
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Amazon.com Review
Witness Stephen King's triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. ...
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The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
by Ernie Colón
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(77 customer reviews)
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Hill and Wang
August 22, 2006
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Amazon.com Review
Book DescriptionThe 9/11 Report for Every American On December 5, 2005, the 9/11 Commission issued its final report card on the government’s fulfillment of the recommendations issued in July 2004: one A, twelve Bs, nine Cs, twelve Ds, three Fs, and four incompletes. Here is stunning ...
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Beautiful Lies (Ridley Jones, Book 1)
by Lisa Unger
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(158 customer reviews)
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April 18, 2006
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Starred Review. After an act of heroism garners instant fame for 30-something New York freelancer Ridley Jones, she receives a faded photo of a man, a familiar-looking woman and a little girl along with a note asking, "Are you my daughter?" Shaken, she confronts her parents, who affirm ...
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The Littlest Hitler - Stories
by Ryan Boudinot
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(8 customer reviews)
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Counterpoint
September 4, 2006
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Amazon.com Review
Work like this used to be called "experimental fiction," but the experiments worked out so well that short stories similar to those in ...
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American Born Chinese
by Gene Luen Yang
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(151 customer reviews)
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First Second
September 5, 2006
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Indie graphic novelist Gene Yang's intelligent and emotionally challenging ...
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The Children's Hospital
by Chris Adrian
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(55 customer reviews)
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McSweeney's
August 22, 2006
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Medicine, magic, the biblical story of Noah and sociological ruminations about Americans in the throes of the apocalypse come together in physician Adrian's hip, wry and ambitious debut. When the world is submerged beneath seven miles of water, only those ...
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl
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(345 customer reviews)
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Viking Adult
August 3, 2006
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Starred Review. Pessl's stunning debut is an elaborate construction modeled after the syllabus of a college literature course—36 chapters are named after everything from Othello to Paradise Lost to The Big Sleep—that culminates with a final exam. It comes as no surprise, then, that teen narrator Blue Van Meer, ...
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Sweet and Low: A Family Story
by Rich Cohen
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(82 customer reviews)
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 4, 2006
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Amazon.com Review
Sweet and Low by Richard Cohen bills itself as "the unauthorized true story of one Brooklyn family." And what a family. Cohen, the disinherited grandson of the artificial sweetener Sweet 'n' Low's inventor, combines two parts Horatio Alger-memoir, one part cultural commentary and three parts personal criticism into a ...
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
by Kate DiCamillo
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(485 customer reviews)
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February 14, 2006
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From School Library Journal
Starred Review. Grade 3-6–This achingly beautiful story shows a true master of writing at her very best. Edward Tulane is an exceedingly vain, cold-hearted china rabbit owned by 10-year-old Abilene Tulane, who dearly loves him. Her grandmother relates a fairy tale about a princess who never felt love; ...
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
by Vince Rause
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Crown
May 9, 2006
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In October 1972, a plane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes. Not immediately rescued, the survivors turned to cannibalism to survive and after 72 days were saved. Rugby team member Parrado has written a beautiful story of friendship, tra...
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