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Jan.11.2008
Poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then moved to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she has also written a cookbook, Hallelujah! The Welcome Table; five poetry...
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Jan.11.2008
An exploration of the incredibly complicated feelings that we have for our families. In twenty mesmerizing true stories, the reader discovers what is essential and elemental to all families and, in doing so, slowly abolishes the fantasies and fictions we have about our loved ones.
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Jan.09.2008
MacGregor West, on a quest to solve the mystery of his mother's disappearance, is seduced into the world of the eccentric Ware family of San Francisco and falls in love with a woman who may hold the key to his past. "A couple of years ago, a first-time author in Santa Cruz came out with a...
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Jan.08.2008
Slipstream is the story of five characters whose lives intersect at a pivotal moment in the Los Angeles International Airport. Logan, a thirty-something con man who has just been paroled from a stint in prison is trying to stay away from drugs while he scrapes by working as a personal attendant....
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Jan.07.2008
Hemmings's bittersweet debut novel, an expansion of her first published short story ("The Minor Wars," from House of Thieves and originally published in StoryQuarterly), stars besieged and wryly introspective attorney Matt King, the land-rich descendant of Hawaiian royalty and American missionaries...
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Jan.04.2008
From one of the great novelists of our day, a vital, brilliant new book of essays, speeches, and articles essential for our times.
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Jan.04.2008
Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15th, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and...
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Jan.04.2008
For Westerners, this book may be better heard than read. While readers might stumble over the Kashmiri, Indian and Pakistani names and accents, Mandvi glides right through them, allowing us to engage with Rushdie’s well-wrought characters and sagas. Mandvi has a calm, quiet storyteller voice, often...
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Jan.04.2008
Ishmael Reed proves he's a formidable historical novelist in this sharp, wildly funny slave's-eye-view of the Civil War. Three slaves infected with Dysaethesia Aethipica (a term coined in the nineteenth century for the disease that makes black people run away) escape from Virginia.
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Dec.27.2007
In her luminous new novel, Bharati Mukherjee creates a vivid, complex tale about the dislocation and transformation that arise in the face of a meeting of cultures: the terrain she has so brilliantly made her own in her acclaimed novels and stories. Here, in the Holder of the World, we witness an...
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