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The White Tiger: A Novel
by Aravind Adiga
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Oct 14 2008
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Starred Review. First-time author Adiga has created a memorable tale of one taxi driver's hellish experience in modern India. Told with close attention to detail, whether it be the vivid portrait of India he paints or the transformation of Balram Halwai in...
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Dark Days
by Kerry Pither
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Aug 26 2008
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It’s a sad comment on the human condition that moral issues thought to have been settled by the grim experience of history are frequently dredged up and reopened for debate. Take, for example, the recent shift in global discourse about torture, which was for a time considered taboo in ...
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel
by Mary Ann Shaffer
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The Dial Press
July 29 2008
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The letters comprising this small charming novel begin in 1946, when single, 30-something author Juliet Ashton (nom de plume Izzy Bickerstaff) writes to her publisher to say she is tired of covering the sunny side of war and its aftermath. When Guernsey fa...
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The Enchantress of Florence
by Salman Rushdie
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Knopf Canada
April 8 2008
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Trying to describe a Salman Rushdie novel is like trying to describe music to someone who has never heard it--you can fumble with a plot summary but you won't be able to convey the wonder of his dazzling prose or the imaginative complexity of his vision. A...
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Bottomfeeder
by Taras Grescoe
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Oct 10 2008
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In this whirlwind, worldwide tour of fisheries, Grescoe (The Devil's Picnic) whiplashes readers from ecological devastation to edible ecstasy and back again. In disturbing detail, he depicts the turbid and murky Chesapeake Bay, where, with overharvested oy...
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The Monster of Florence
by Douglas Preston
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Grand Central Publishing
Jun 10 2008
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Starred Review. United in their obsession with a grisly Italian serial murder case almost three decades old, thriller writer Preston (coauthor, ...
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The Killing Circle
by Andrew Pyper
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Doubleday Canada
Aug 5 2008
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Starred Review. In this extraordinary thriller from Canadian author Pyper (...
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An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century
by James Orbinski
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Doubleday Canada
April 4 2008
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“Thoughtful and passionate.” — The Globe and Mail“With vivid personal anecdote, Orbinski chronicles the struggle around humanitarian intervention in one hotspot after another across the planet. In a narrative of grace and power, he displays the intense components of his remarkable life: integrity, compassion and principle. He is undaunted ...
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Night of the Gun A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.
by David Carr
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Simon & Schuster
Jan 1 2008
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What It Is
by Lynda Barry
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Drawn & Quarterly
April 23 2008
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Praise for Lynda Barry:“Barry is, underneath the wonky handwriting and the quirky, naïve drawings, a great memoirist . . . Like [Tobias] Wolff and [Dave] Eggers, she finds a tone that accommodates self-criticism and self-irony without tipping over into self-loathing . . . but what she is particularly good ...
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Telex from Cuba: A Novel
by Rachel Kushner
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July 1 2008
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Kushner's colorful, character-driven debut succinctly captures the essence of life for a gilded circle of American expats in pre-Castro Cuba, chronicling a m...
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The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Soccer
by David Goldblatt
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Riverhead Books
Jan 2 2008
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More Information Than You Require
by John Hodgman
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Oct 21 2008
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The bestselling author of The Areas of My Expertise--also known as The Daily Show's "Resident Expert" and the PC in the iconic Mac ads--picks up exactly where his first book left off. Exactly.Like its predecessor, MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE compiles incredibly handy made up facts into brief articles, ...
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Atmospheric Disturbances and Other Sad Meteorological Phenomena
by Rivka Galchen
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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
May 20 2008
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Imagine what it might be like to realize that the person you love is, in fact, not the person you love but a doppelg...
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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
by Mark Harris
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Mar 3 2008
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Starred Review. While one might think that the films discussed in this book have been thoroughly plumbed (...
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My Revolutions
by Hari Kunzru
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Dutton
Feb 5 2008
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?An amazingly convincing account of the period.? ?"The New York Times" ?Kunzru can do pretty much whatever he likes with language.? ?"The New Yorker" ?If only more novels had the elegant force of Kunzru's swirling work.? ?"The Washington Post"...
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
by David Shields
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Feb 5 2008
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Inspired by the immense vitality of his 90-something father, author Shields (Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine) looks at the arc of a human life in order to come to terms with mortality. Organized into four stages of life-infancy and childhoo...
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How Jesus Became Christian: St. Paul, the Early Church and the Jesus Cover-up
by Barrie Wilson
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Random House Canada
Mar 18 2008
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Of the making of Jesus books there appears to be no end. Although Wilson, professor of religious studies at Toronto's York University, treads familiar ground already covered by Geza Vermes in ...
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The Monsters of Templeton
by Lauren Groff
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Nov 4 2008
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On the very morning Willie Upton slinks home to Templeton, New York (after a calamitous affair with her archeology professor), the 50-foot-long body of a monster floats from the depths of the town's lake. This unsettling coincidence sets the stage for one ...
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Sweetheart
by Chelsea Cain
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Minotaur Books
Sep 2 2008
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Starred Review. In Cain's superb follow-up to Heartsick, damaged detective Archie Sheridan is back home in Portland, Ore., trying to resume a normal life. Archie's ties to serial killer Gretchen Lowell still run deep, even if he's stopped their weekly visits in prison. Meanwhile, reporter Susan Ward is finishing ...
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Perfumes: The Guide
by Luca Turin
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Viking Adult
April 15 2008
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Starred Review. Less a guide in the sense of helping people choose the perfect fragrance than a wide-ranging, critical review of some 1,200 perfumes, both famous and obscure, this comprehensive book is unfailingly entertaining. A collaboration between Turi...
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The Gargoyle
by Andrew Davidson
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(39 customer reviews)
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Random House Canada
Aug 5 2008
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Starred Review. At the start of Davidson's powerful debut, the unnamed narrator, a coke-addled pornographer, drives his car off a mountain road in a part of the country that's never specified. During his painful recovery from horrific burns suffered in the...
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