2001 March/April
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers  
Publisher Comments The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his...
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The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
by Mark Kurlansky
Publisher Comments The Basque History of the World is the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people. Signs of their civilization existed well before the arrival of the Romans in 218 B.C., and though theories abound, no one has ever been able to determine their...
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On Bullfighting
by Kennedy
Publisher Comments An Anchor Books Original One day, on the brink of despair and contemplating her own mortality, novelist A. L. Kennedy is offered an assignment she can’t refuse–an opportunity to travel to Spain and cover a sport that represents the ultimate...
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American Fuji
by Sara Backer
Publisher Comments "Expect the unexpected. This is Japan." That's Gaby Stanton trying to explain to Alex Thorn why his questions about the mysterious death of his son, an exchange student at a small Japanese university, are likely to go unanswered. But those words could...
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Cool for You
by Eileen Myles
Publisher Comments Grainy, stained and stripped, this nonfiction novel traces the downbeat progress of a girl growing up in working-class Boston. Schooled by mean and memorable Catholic nuns, this tomboy heroine stumbles and dreams her way through the painful corridors of...
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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
by Samantha Weinberg
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-214)....
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Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong
by Xuan Huong Ho
Publisher Comments H Xun Huong-whose name translates as "Spring Essence"-is one of the most important and popular poets in Vietnam. A concubine, she became renowned for her poetic skills, writing subtly risqu poems which used double entendre and sexual innuendo as a...
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Kissing the Virgin's Mouth
by Donna M Gershten
Publisher Comments Selected as the first winner of Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize, Kissing the Virgin's Mouth is a beautifully written, lyrical first novel that offers a rare window into another culture. Its irresistible heroine takes the reader into her Mexican...
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Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose
by Raymond Carver
Review "To a one, they demonstrate the author's characteristic bare-bones style as he placed characters of modest means and resources into the kind of ordinary crises that define ordinary lives. Gathered here, too, but taking a back seat to the stories, are all...
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Zinc Fingers: Poems from A to Z (Pitt Poetry)
by Peter Meinke
Synopsis Watching Steffi beat Monica on tv at Fat Jack's in Provincetown I was seized with an urge as I sometimes am to write a syllabic poem on the spot which was none too clean and packed to the gills with elbows and shrimp Hey Sparky I yelled to the bartender...
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Make Believe
by Joanna Scott
Publisher Comments Writing with the sustained brilliance that made a Pulitzer Prize finalist of her previous novel, Joanna Scott shines her lights upon the inner lives of children and the complexities of the family bond in this astonishing new novel. Make Believe is...
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Feeling Sorry for Celia
by Jaclyn Moriarty
Publisher Comments A #1 Bestseller in Australia and Book Sense 76 Pick Life is pretty complicated for Elizabeth Clarry. Her best friend Celia keeps disappearing, her absent father suddenly reappears, and her communication with her mother consists entirely of wacky notes...
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Sports Guy: In Search of Corkball, Warroad Hockey, Hooters Golf, Tiger Woods, and the Big, Big Game
by Charles Pierce
Publisher Comments Here, at last, is Charles Pierce's best writing on sports, collected for the first time in one volume. All of these pieces, first published in GQ, the National, and Esquire, showcase Pierce's trademark humor. Some are spot-on profiles of famous sports...
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The Book Borrower
by Alice Mattison
Publisher Comments On the first page of The Book Borrower, Toby Ruben and Deborah Laidlaw meet in 1975 in a New York City playground, where the two women are looking after their babies. Deborah lends Toby a book, Trolley Girl, — a memoir about a long ago trolley...
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Borrowed Hearts: New and Selected Stories
by Rick DeMarinis
Publisher Comments The definitive introduction to one of America's finest storytellers. Borrowed Hearts traces the development of DeMarinis's incantatory voice, including both his most recent work and stories selected from his three previous, highly acclaimed collections:...
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The Custom of the Sea
by Neil Hanson
Publisher Comments The nightmarish events of the shipwreck are reported with real power.-New York Times Book Review Adrift at sea, your food and water gone, you are slowly starving to death: what would you do to survive? On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from...
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The Wooden Sea
by Jonathan Carroll
Review "The Wooden Sea is a treat, and I'm heading out to look for more Jonathan Carroll titles. It's gorgeously imagined and the style is impressive. Frannie, the worldly war-stung small town cop, hits classic status for me. His luminously hard-boiled American...
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House of Gentle Men
by Kathy Hepinstall
Publisher Comments Life is That Big I lived in Texas and Oklahoma until I was about six years old. Then my father moved us to New Jersey. My Texas accent never recovered from the two years I spent there. The rest of my childhood I lived in Spring Texas, a couple hours from...
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Singing Boy
by Dennis Mcfarland
Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Music Room, a deeply moving novel about lives changed forever in an instant of senseless violence. On the way home from dinner in suburban Boston, Malcolm Vaughn is shot and killed by a stranger. His eight-year-old son,...
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Dave at Night
by Gail Carson Levine
Publisher Comments If nobody wants him, that's fine.He'll just take care of himself. When his father dies, Dave knows nothing will ever be thesame. And then it happens. Dave lands in an orphanage -- the cold and strict Hebrew Home for Boys in Harlem -- far from the life he...
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