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The Unnamed [Hardcover]

2010-08-11T10:50:00.000-07:00

Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2010: It’s back. With those words Tim and Jane Farnsworth reenter a nightmare they know so intimately it needs no other description. "It" may not be found among an insurance company’s diagnostic codes, but the Farnsworths, a couple made wealthy by Tim’s single-mindedly successful legal practice, know it too well: Tim’s compulsion, at any

Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction [Hardcover]

2010-08-11T10:48:00.000-07:00

From Publishers Weekly Bloom’s latest collection (after novel Away) looks at love in many forms through a keenly perceptive lens. Two sets of stories that read much like novellas form the book’s soul; the first of which revolves around two couples-William and Isabel, Clare and Charles-and begins with Clare and William falling into an affair that endures divorces, remarriage and illness. Bloom has

The Hand That First Held Mine [Hardcover]

2010-08-11T10:44:00.000-07:00

Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2010: Maggie O’Farrell has a singular knack for sensing the magnetic fields that push and pull people in love, and in The Hand That First Held Mine, she summons those invisible forces to tell two stories. The first is the spirited journey of Lexie Sinclair, a bright, tempestuous woman who finds her way from rural Devon to the center of postwar London’s

Rock Paper Tiger [Hardcover]

2010-08-11T10:41:00.000-07:00

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Ellie Cooper, the heroine of Brackmann’s electrifying debut, is an Iraq War vet trying to forget her past while bumming around the fringes of the Beijing art world. Having been ditched by her husband, Trey, a former army interrogator now working in China as a private security consultant, Ellie has drifted into a relationship with the artist Lao Zhang, as

The Ask: A Novel [Hardcover]

2010-08-11T10:38:00.000-07:00

Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2010: How can a life so miserable be so funny? Is it because the stakes are so low (Milo Burke, the antihero of Sam Lipsyte’s novel, The Ask, is a failure at many things, but most prominently at his job of pulling in major donors for a deadwater arts program at a middling university neither you nor he care about), or because they are so high

Ship Breaker [Hardcover]

2010-08-11T10:31:00.000-07:00

From School Library Journal Grade 7 Up-A fast-paced postapocalyptic adventure set on the American Gulf Coast. Nailer works light crew; his dirty, dangerous job is to crawl deep into the wrecks of the ancient oil tankers that line the beach, scavenging copper wire and turning it over to his crew boss. After a brutal hurricane passes over, Nailer and his friend Pima stumble upon the wreck of a

So Cold the River [Hardcover]

2010-08-11T10:27:00.000-07:00

Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2010: Award-winning author Michael Koryta’s first foray into the supernatural genre is spellbinding and check-your-doors-and-windows scary, and it all begins with a check and a bottle of water. Filmmaker Eric Shaw had a knack for getting the exact right shot--an unexplained tug that unerringly put him on the right path--until his temper

Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel [Deckle Edge] [Hardcover]

2010-08-11T10:24:00.000-07:00

Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2010: Eveline Auerbach, the heroine of Anthropology of an American Girl, observes at one point that "pain becomes its own story." That may be the best way to begin talking about Hilary Thayer Hamann’s arresting and provocative coming-of-age novel, set against the twilight years of Eveline’s adolescence and the dawn of the 1980s--a decade made

A Visit from the Goon Squad [Hardcover]

2010-08-11T10:22:00.000-07:00

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Readers will be pleased to discover that the star-crossed marriage of lucid prose and expertly deployed postmodern switcheroos that helped shoot Egan to the top of the genre-bending new school is alive in well in this graceful yet wild novel. We begin in contemporaryish New York with kleptomaniac Sasha and her boss, rising music producer Bennie Salazar,

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel [Hardcover]

2010-08-11T10:16:00.000-07:00

Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2010: In her witty and wise debut novel, newcomer Helen Simonson introduces the unforgettable character of the widower Major Ernest Pettigrew. The Major epitomizes the Englishman with the "stiff upper lip," who clings to traditional values and has tried (in vain) to pass these along to his yuppie son, Roger. The story centers around

The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall

2010-08-11T10:10:00.000-07:00

While Big Love seeks the inherent soap opera in a man with many wives, in The Lonely Polygamist Brady Udall finds the slapstick. But Udall doesn’t settle just for jokes (though the jokes are excellent). Golden may be hapless, distracted, and deceitful, but he is large-hearted and so is his story. With a fresh and faultless ear for American vernacular, Udall’s big tale of beset manhood

Just Kids by Patti Smith

2010-08-11T10:08:00.000-07:00

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe weren’t always famous, but they always thought they would be. They found each other on the streets of New York City in the late ’60s and made a pact to keep each other afloat until they found their voices--or the world was ready to hear them. Smith’s memoir of their friendship, Just Kids, is tender and artful, with the oracular style of her punk anthems

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

2010-08-11T10:02:00.000-07:00

Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her tissue turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Their stunning potency became a building block for countless breakthroughs, including the cure for polio. For a decade, Rebecca Skloot doggedly

The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

2010-08-11T10:01:00.000-07:00

Printing presses whirr, ashtrays smolder, and the endearing complexity of humanity plays out in Tom Rachman’s debut novel, The Imperfectionists. The chaos of a fictional English-language newspaper provides a stage for characters unified by a common thread of circumstance, but Rachman’s depiction of a paper deemed a "daily report on the idiocy and the brilliance of the species" becomes more about

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

2010-08-11T10:00:00.000-07:00

Matterhorn is a marvel--a living, breathing book with Lieutenant Waino Mellas and the men of Bravo Company at its raw and battered heart. Mellas is a bundle of anxiety and ambition, a college kid who realized too late that "because of his desire to look good coming home from a war, he might never come home at all." A highly decorated Vietnam veteran himself, Karl Marlantes brings the horrors and

The Big Short by Michael Lewis

2010-08-11T09:59:00.000-07:00

Though many at its center have argued that no one saw the economic meltdown coming, Michael Lewis, with his unerring instinct for the under-reported story, has found a handful of people who did, and who made a whole of money doing so. Following the people who knew what was happening turns out to be brilliant way to explain the inexplicable, and in The Big Short he makes an entertaining and

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

2010-08-11T09:58:00.000-07:00

A familiar evil lies in wait for Lisbeth Salander in the finale to Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, but this time her only choice is to take it down or be destroyed by it. Her survival depends on journalist Mikael Blomkvist, and in spite of her most feral instincts, she must trust his judgment when the stakes are highest. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest is the finest example of a book

Country Driving by Peter Hessler

2010-08-11T09:57:00.000-07:00

In the superb Country Driving, Peter Hessler has observed the past 15 years of change in China with the patience and perspective--and necessary good humor--of an outsider who expects to be there for a while. He takes to the roads, as so many Chinese are doing now for the first time, driving on dirt tracks to the desert edges of the ancient empire and on brand-new highways to the mushrooming

The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald

2010-08-11T09:55:00.000-07:00

To the ranks of iconic mid-century modern men Gump and Garp, add Lisa Grunwald’s The Irresistible Henry House. Henry arrives in the world as a "practice baby," passed between a dozen young women at the Practice House of Wilton College’s Home Economics program in a decidedly pre-Spock era that discouraged mothers from holding babies "too much." From the beginning, Henry inspires in women the

The Passage by Justin Cronin

2010-08-11T09:51:00.000-07:00

Justin Cronin’s gorgeous writing brings depth and vitality to this ambitious, terrifying epic about a virus that nearly destroys the world. The Passage takes readers on a journey from the early days of the virus to the aftermath of the destruction, where packs of hungry infected scour the razed, charred cities looking for food, and the survivors eke out a bleak, brutal existence. Cronin doesn’t

Globe Trekker - Indonesia (Double DVD)

2010-02-02T19:03:00.000-08:00

3 Episodes: Bali & Sulawesi, Java & Sumatra, and The Eastern Islands. Thirteen thousand floating emerald islands make up the Indonesian archipelago stretching 3,000 miles from Asia to teh Pacific. With a population of 175 million, it's the world's largest Moslem nation and one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world. Joing travelers Megan McCormick, Shilpa Mehta and Mark Crowdy as

In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos (Paperback)

2010-02-02T17:57:00.001-08:00

Between 1996 and 1999, British foreign correspondent Parry repeatedly forayed into some of the worst strife rending the islands of Indonesia, a nation emerging tumultuously from the dictatorship of General Suharto. This boldly reported, introspective account—"a book about violence, and about being afraid"—is his attempt to make sense, however incompletely, of what happened in Java, Borneo and

The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The World Readers) (Paperback)

2010-02-02T17:55:00.000-08:00

Editors Hellwig (Asian studies, Univ. of British Columbia; In the Shadow of Change: Images of Women in Indonesian Literature) and Tagliacozzo (history & Asian studies, Cornell Univ.; Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865–1915) here introduce the understudied nation of Indonesia. Reading their book is like exploring an eclectic, brightly colored

Indonesia (Country Guide) (Paperback)

2010-02-02T17:50:00.000-08:00

I'm at the end of my 4 months living in Jakarta. I bought this book in the states before going but when I arrived in Jakarta, i was originally very disappointed by the thinness of the jakarta section. The lack of depth was a problem throughout the book. However, I later traveled to Yogjakarta, Bandung, Bogor, Bali, Lombok, and the Gili Islands, making this book actually pretty useful. Although it

Bisnis Indonesia [Magazine Subscription]

2010-02-02T17:47:00.000-08:00

majalah bisnis indonesia minggu diterbitkan oleh PT Gramedia.