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Only Revolutions

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's "Glas" and Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" thrown in for good measure, ...

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The Echo Maker

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

On a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin returns reluctantly to their ...

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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Former Baghdad bureau chief of "The Washington Post" presents a revelatory account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone--headquarters for the American ...

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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the dust storms that ...

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Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

From the acclaimed author of "River Town" comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of 21st-century China as it opens its doors to the ...

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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

"This sweeping narrative history of 9/11 includes important new information about the people, ideas, events, and intelligence failures that ...

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Averno: Poems

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to ...

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Angle of Yaw

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

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Splay Anthem

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age 16, as he is ...

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Keturah and Lord Death

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Sold into prostitution, Lakshmi lives a nightmare and gradually forms friendships with the other girls that enable her to survive in this ...

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The Rules of Survival

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

In this thought-provoking exploration of self-reliance and the nature of evil, a young boy sees that he needs to take action to save his family ...

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American Born Chinese, Collector's Edition

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

"As an Asian American, "American Born Chinese" is the book I've been waiting for all my life."--Derek Kirk Kim A tour-de-force by rising indy ...

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