The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng

"I was born with the gift of rain, an ancient soothsayer in an even more ancient temple once told me." So begins Tan Twan Eng's novel set in Penang, a small island off the Malaya peninsula prior to the start of World War II. Actually, the novel is set in the present day, with an elderly Phillip...

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Psychologist and sleuth Maisie Dobbs returns for her fifth adventure in An Incomplete Revenge, a mystery novel by Jacqueline Winspear. Set in England in the autumn of 1931, 13 years after the end of the Great War, Revenge probes the darkness which lies beneath the surface of picturesque Heronsdene, ...

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Floyd Skloot is a profoundly talented man. His five books of poems, his literary essays and memoirs, and his fiction all speak to an immense skill. It is, then, with great joy that we can welcome Skloot's new Selected Poems: 1970-2005 to the world of books. Selected Poems is a brave, generous...

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Perhaps you can't even count the number of times you've been sitting in a movie theater, thinking of all the other things you'll never buy with your misspent money, and you turn and say to your equally dismayed companion, "How did this piece of crap ever get made?" A fascinating, detailed...

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What if everything you wanted to achieve was just slightly out of reach, and, more frustratingly, if you were trying to master several unreachable goals at the same time? Rachel Pastan writes of the eternal dilemma of the working mother: juggling work demands, ambitions, motherhood, and marriage...

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Can it be a coincidence that, as newspaper comic pages become increasingly laugh-free and almost unreadable, publishers have begun to archive entire runs of classic comic strips? There was a time, in the early 20th century, when the comics page sold newspapers -- when editors relied on cartoon...

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Donald Ray Pollock's debut collection of short stories, Knockemstiff, opens with the line "My father showed me how to hurt a man one August night at the Torch Drive-in when I was seven years old," setting the stage for the intense, gritty prose styling that fills these 200-plus pages. If the...

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It goes by many names: "The Crisis," "The Dark Years," "The Walking Plague," as well as newer and more "hip" titles such as "World War Z" or "Z War One." I personally dislike this last moniker as it implies an inevitable "Z War Two." For me it will always be "The Zombie War," and while many may...

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All of us have a few books -- a short stack, say -- that we consider to be seminal in our lives, foundational to our understanding of ourselves, both as ourselves and in relation to others and to the world. As poet John Haines put it, "a few books well read and understood so that they become...

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From the book's title and the author's rank, one might think this is a gung-ho commando killing manual or an apologia in defense of lethal force. I certainly received some sideways looks while reading it on mass transit. But despite the disturbing subject, On Killing is actually a somewhat...

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The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper by Aaron McGruder

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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

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Jack Cole & Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits by Art Spiegelman

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