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Jun.17.2008
Novelist Tananarive is noted for works like The Black Rose; her mother, Patricia, was a civil rights activist with CORE. In alternate chapters, they detail their struggles against racial discrimination, name calling, and worse while paying a moving tribute to the Civil Rights Movement and its foot...
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Jun.11.2008
John Laroche is a sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing all his teeth, has the posture of al dente spaghetti and the nervous intensity of someone who wins a lot of video games. He is also an orchid thief, who, along with three Seminole Indians, was arrested with rare orchids...
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Mar.07.2008
“A pragmatic guide to parenting… There is an excellent spirit to this book, which makes it well worth reading.” –Boston Herald
“Thought-provoking, unusual insights into parenthood…A step-by-step working plan to enhancing parenthood through preparation and identifying possible obstacles to parental...
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Feb.27.2008
In her first two novels, Sleep Toward Heaven and How to Be Lost, Amanda Eyre Ward asked questions about loss and forgiveness: Is salvation possible to achieve? What are the costs of achieving it? Does everyone deserve it? Forgive Me, as the title suggests, blatantly explores these questions and...
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Feb.26.2008
This book has been nominated for Best Paperback Original for the 2008 International Thriller Writers award.
San Francisco, 1906. The great West Coast city is a center of industry and excitement–and also, to many, of sin. When the Great Earthquake hits, some believe it is the day of reckoning for...
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Feb.25.2008
"My name is Abraham Isaac Lee, and I am my father's son. This is a story about Land and Love and a Great Fire that consumed my father's dreams."
So begins the tale of Abraham Isaac Lee, the adopted Korean son of Hubert Lee and Edna Scott, who looks back at his childhood in the 1950s and...
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Feb.12.2008
For lovers of dogs and lovers of literature comes SHAGGY MUSES: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton and Emily Brontë (Ballantine Books 2007), by dog owner, psychologist, and former literature professor Maureen Adams.
Based on diaries,...
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Jan.24.2008
Juana of Castile, the last queen of Spanish blood to inherit her country's throne, is an enigmatic figure, shrouded in lurid myth. Was she the bereft widow of legend who was driven mad by her loss, or has history misjudged a woman who was ahead of her time? In his stunning new novel, C.W. Gortner...
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Jan.10.2008
"The ambivalence of fire--as evocation of glowing love and furious destruction--permeates this stunning first novel by Mark Childress, a young Southern writer who gives fresh expression to his region's literary preoccupations. A World Made of Fire is set in rural Alabama in the decades before...
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