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Being Dead
by Jim Crace

On Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon, Joseph and Celice, married for almost 30 years, lie murdered in the dunes. The shocking particulars of their passing make up the arc of this courageous and haunting novel of life, mortality and love.
pb, $12.00

Jim the Boy
by Tony Earley

It's 1934, and Jim Glass is turning ten in Aliceville, North Carolina. This is a deceptively gentle, nostalgic look at childhood during an era when life was by turns harsh and hopeful. Earley offers an understated, poetic tribute to those families whose pride in and love for one another helped them face hard times.
pb, $12.95

Blue Angel
by Francine Prose

Deliciously risque, this bestseller by the author of "Guided Tours of Hell" offers a withering take on modern academic mores, a scathing tale of colliding cultures that vividly shows just what can happen when academic politics crash head-on with political correctness.
pb, $14.00

Music & Silence
by Rose Tremain

Set in 17th century Denmark, this is the story of an English lutenist summoned to Denmark to join the King's private royal orchestra. While there he falls in love with the Queen's maid and becomes embroiled in a tug of war in the royal court.
pb, $14.95

Chang and Eng
by Darin Strauss

Now in paperback comes the brilliant reimagining of the remarkable lives of the original "Siamese Twins". Sweeping from the Far East and the court of the king of Siam to the shared intimacy of their lives in America, "Chang and Eng" rescues one of the 19th century's most fabled human oddities from the sideshow of history.
pb, $13.00

The Human Stain
by Philip Roth

Set in 1998, when ideological divisions are made manifest through public denunciations and rituals of purification, the newest novel by award-winning author Philip Roth concludes his eloquent trilogy of postwar American lives begun in "American Pastoral" and continued in "I Married a Communist".
pb, $14.00

Bee Season
by Myla Goldberg

This "honey of a first novel" (People) - now in paperback -is a coming-of-age story about Eliza Naumann, who amazes everyone by winning a spelling bee. "Imagine a Jewish "Ordinary People" and then some.... Unexpectedly powerful". - Newsweek.
pb, $13.00


 

 

 

Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America
by Maria Laurino

A New York writer explores the disconnect that many Italian Americans, rootedin the rocky soil of Southern Italy, feel between images from Bensonhurst and Mafia movies, on one hand, and Northern Italian style and verve on the other.
pb, $13.95

Wanderlust: A History of Walking
by Rebecca Solnit

Profiling some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction, Solnit presents a delightful and brilliantly conceived meditation on the art of walking.
pb, $14.00

Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks

Once it was easy to distinguish the staid Bourgeois from the radical Bohemians. This field study of America's latest elite--a hybrid Brooks calls the Bobos--covers everything from cultural artifacts to Bobo attitudes towards sex, morality, work, and leisure.
pb, $14.00

Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress
edited by Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington

The authors present an important look at why some cultures and ethnic groups are better off than others, and the role that cultural values play in the shaping of nations' and peoples' political, economic, and social performance. Includes 22 essays by scholars, journalists, and global business experts.
pb, $18.00

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
by Alison Weir

Eleanor of Aquitaine was a complex, boldly original woman who transcended the mores of her society. With astonishing historic detail, mesmerizing pageantry, and irresistible accounts of royal scandal and intrigue, Weir recreates not only a remarkable personality but a magnificent past era.
pb, $14.95

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by Anthony Bourdain

Now in paperback, New York chef Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir and expose. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable.
pb, $14.00

Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
by Mike Dash

A favorite with reviewers and readers nationwide, Tulipomania--now in paperback--is the true story of how a beautiful flower shaped Western history, from the medieval courts of the Ottoman sultans to the futures markets of Holland's Golden Age.
pb, $12.00


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