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A Golden Age
by Tahmima Anam
Set during the Bangladesh Liberation War, this powerful novel follows the fates of Rehana Haque and her 2 activist children. The characters are beautifully drawn, complex and sympathetic. Rehana in particular is a multi-faceted character, who is strong, conflicted and captivating. This outstanding literary debut will grab you from it's arresting first sentence and keep you riveted until the very last page.
(HarperCollins) Recommended by Tova
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Sacred games
by Vikram Chandra
Sprawling as the city of Mumbai, Sacred Games reads like a
postmodern Indian incarnation of a victorian novel, spiced with
elements of detective fiction and spy thrillers. A huge cast of
diverse characters revolves around the central story, the
confrontation between a criminal overlord and the policeman
determined to bring him down. The political, the spiritual, the
criminal and the personal are layered in the elaborate plot, as
their engagement is revealed to have stakes and implications of
global proportions. Filled with twists and surprises, Chandra's
complex novel immerses the reader in a richly imagined world.
(HarperCollins) Recommended by Julie
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The Fabric of Night
by Christopher Peters
Intense and atmospheric, this gorgeous, dark and unsettling novel is told from the point of view of two narrators. Memento-like, the story moves elusively in a non-linear fashion. At its center lies a possibly delusional alcoholic German artist and the murder he may or may not have witnessed while vacationing in Turkey. Rich and rewarding this is an eerie and thought-provoking novel that will linger long after the last page is turned.
(Nan A. Talese) Recommended by Tova
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The Bastard of Istanbul
by Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak was tried and acquitted of "insulting Turkishness" for
this novel which confronts the 1915 Armenian genocide through the
linked stories of two families, one Turkish and one
Armenian-American. The four Kazanci sisters and Asya, the teenage
daughter of the youngest, live together in their old family house in
Istanbul, while their one brother has made his home in Arizona with
his American wife and her daughter Armanoush, who divides her time
with her father's Armenian family. When she secretly flies
to Turkey, in search of identity and heritage, her encounter with the
women of her stepfather's family reveals the hidden connections in
their past.
(Vikram) Recommended by Julie
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Love is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield
Rock critic and pop culture journalist, Rob Sheffield finds himself suddenly widowed and out of his sorrow and sense of loss, brings us a celebration of life through mix tapes.
(Crown) Recommended by Susan
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Bone
by Jeff Smith
Bone is a combination of comedy and epic fantasy which chronicles the adventures of three distinctly-characterized cousins as they make an epic quest through various perils and hilarious situations in a countryside valley, facing everything from “rat creatures” to town bullies, dragons to romantic conflicts, and an assortment of other situations hilarious and wild. Getting its start as a black-and-white comic strip back in 1991, Jeff Smith’s series ultimately became fifty-five published issues over the course of 13 years. These were later collected in nine separate volumes, and then again in a mammoth-sized, one-volume collection in 2004. Since February of 2005, Scholastic has been re-issuing the nine separate volumes, fully (and beautifully) colorized, and for many a newcomer, the drawings couldn’t be presented any other way. These new editions are an excellent introduction to the series, and due to the fact that only the first five have been reissued so far, there’s still more to look forward to. If you’re a new fan or old, it’s worth joining the three Bone cousins in these newly-revitalized tales of their epic adventure in the series which bears their name.
(Scholastic) Recommended by Barry
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Let the Northern Lights Erase your Name
by Vendela Vida
Northern Lights is a slender, enigmatic novel of a lonely woman in search of her paternity and herself. Vida's writing is both spare and lyrical, and her beguiling voice provides a unique and satisfying reading experience. A beautiful, fluid work.
(Ecco) Recommended by Tova
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Atlantic Shorelines
by Mark D. Bertness
Atlantic Shorelines is an introduction to the natural history and ecology of shoreline communities on the East Coast of North America. Writing for a broad audience, Mark Bertness examines how distinctive communities of plants and animals are generated on rocky shores and in salt marshes, mangroves, and soft sediment beaches on Atlantic shorelines. (Faculty Title)
(Princeton University Press)
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Living with Darwin
by Philip Kitcher
Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin, Philip Kitcher peers into the flames swirling around Darwin's theory, sifting through the scientific evidence for evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design, and revealing why evolution has been the object of such vehement attack.
(Oxford University Press)
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Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind
by Peter D. Kramer
Peter D. Kramer, himself a practicing psychiatrist and a leading national authority on mental health, offers a new take on this controversial figure, one both critical and sympathetic. He recognizes that although much of Freud's thought is now archaic, the discipline he invented has become an inescapable part of our culture, transforming the way we see ourselves. Freud was a myth-maker, a storyteller, a writer whose books will survive among the classics of our literature. The result of Kramer's inquiry is nothing less than a new standard history of Freud by a modern master of his thought.
Hardcover (Eminent Lives)
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Fanon
by John Edgar Wideman
Widemans fascinating new novel weaves together fiction, biography, and memoir to evoke the life and message of Frantz Fanon, the influential author of 'The Wretched of the Earth'. A philosopher, psychiatrist, and political activist, Fanon was a fierce, acute critic of racism and oppression. Part whodunit, part screenplay, and part love story it is ultimately a meditation on character.
(Houghton Mifflin)
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Talk to the Snail
by Stephen Clarke
Stephen Clarke has done it again! Another hilarious send-up of life in France, from the witty expatriate who brought us A Year in the Merde. This time Clarke's good-natured fun takes the form of a travel guide chock full of practical (& not so practical) advice. Written with Clarke's gleeful tongue-in-cheek style, this book will appeal to both Francophiles and Francophobes (and everyone in between).
(Bloomsbury USA) Recommended by Tova
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In a Shade of Blue
by Eddie S. Glaude
In this timely book, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., one of our nation’s rising young African American intellectuals, makes an impassioned plea for black America to address its social problems by recourse to experience and with an eye set on the promise and potential of the future, rather than the fixed ideas and categories of the past. Central to Glaude’s mission is a rehabilitation of philosopher John Dewey, whose ideas, he argues, can be fruitfully applied to a renewal of African American politics.
(University of Chicago Press)
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You Suck
by Christopher Moore
You Suck is about the deeper, more important things in life: love, friendship, and the undead. It's a love story that only Moore could tell: boy meets girl, girl bites boy, boy becomes vampire. Picking up where Bloodsucking Fiends left off without missing a beat, this book will have you laughing out loud.
(HarperCollins) Recommended by Ryan
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Mississippi Sissy
by Kevin Sessums
Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South. In a memoir that echoes bestsellers like The Liar's Club, Kevin Sessums brings to life the pungent American south of the 1960s and the world of the strange little boy who grew there.
(St. Martins Press) Recommended by Susan
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The Assist
by Neil Swidey
The Assist: Hoops, Hope and the Game of Their Lives is a gripping, surprising story about fathers, sons, and surrogates, all confronting the narrow margins of urban life. At its center are the interwoven lives of Jack O’Brien, a high school basketball coach extreme in both his demands and his devotion, and two of his stars, easygoing Ridley Johnson and fierce Jason "Hood" White. The book follows Ridley and Hood on their hunt for a state title.
(PublicAffairs)
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Owen & Mzee
by Isabella Hatkoff
The true story of a young hippo named Owen who as a baby was separated
from his mother during the great tsunami of 2004. He was rescued from a
coral reef off the coast of Kenya and brought to a wildlife sanctuary
called Haller Park where he immediately bonded with a 130 year old
tortoise named Mzee.
Beautiful photographs document the almost mother-child bond that developed
between Owen and Mzee over the last two years.
This is a heartwarming story for young and old.
(Scholastic Books) Recommended by Lori
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Fancy Nancy: Bonjour, Butterfly
by Jane (Author) O'Connor
Nancy thinks butterflies are simply exquisite, so she can't wait for her friend Bree's Butterfly Birthday: the fanciest birthday party ever! But when Nancy finds out she can't go because her grandparents' fiftieth anniversary party is the same day, she is furious. Will Nancy be able to overcome her disappointment? In this magical new story from bestselling duo Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser, everybody's favorite fancy girl gets a surprise lesson in fancy from her grandparents. Ages 4-8.
(HarperCollins)
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick
Hugo, the orphaned son of a clock-maker, secretly lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station maintaining the station’s clocks. He diligently works on a mysterious mechanical project his father left unfinished when his world is interrupted by a mean-spirited toymaker who runs a shop in the train station and an eccentric young girl. What makes this book unique is that the story is told through not only text, but also a series of descriptive and beautiful illustrations that pickup where the story leaves off. The fascinating plot seems to move along like a movie.
(Scholastic Books) Recommended by Lori
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