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Released: May 22, 2013
"A poetic tale of a personal medical crisis."
Memoirist, essayist and novelist Gallagher (
The Sacred Meal, 2009, etc.) explores the series of events set into motion by the startling diagnosis that she suffered from a condition causing blindness.
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Released: May 27, 2013
"A welcome new edition of a classic."
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Released: May 28, 2013
"Carlson has taken full advantage of abundant material to deliver a vivid chronicle of two working Civil War reporters and their spectacular odyssey."
A rollicking story of imprisonment and escape during the Civil War seems a stretch, but journalist Carlson accomplished a similar feat with a Soviet premier in
K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist (2009), and this is another entertaining, occasionally gruesome account.
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Released: May 28, 2013
"Useful, perceptive advice on life found through the practice of karate."
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Released: May 28, 2013
"Essential for fans but fascinating for those new to Brunetti's work as well."
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Released: May 30, 2013
"People are willing to do anything about Latin America other than read about it, or so it's been said. This is one book about Latin America that merits attention."
Mexico-born U.S. journalist Corchado frames a portrait of a torn nation within an account of escaping his own murder.
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Released: June 1, 2013
"An earnest but fairly unskilled rendering of a humanitarian worker's trials and tribulations in Afghanistan."
An activist's candid account of the hardships she endured working as a human rights officer for the United Nations.
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Released: June 1, 2013
"Safe, collegiate humor that makes Dave Barry look like Bill Hicks."
Radio personality and novelist Goldstein (
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!, 2009, etc.) relates the details of the anxiety-ridden final 12 months of his youth before he turned 40.
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Released: June 1, 2013
"A dense, intimate portrayal of an ancient people, peppered with the author's own charming sketches."
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Released: June 1, 2013
"Carlson tends to academic dryness and to a fondness for the smallest of details. Though Tesla deserves such serious treatment, his book is likelier to appeal to specialists than general readers."
A scholarly, critical, mostly illuminating study of the life and work of the great Serbian inventor.
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Released: June 1, 2013
"Best read as an antidote to the usual Morrison hagiographies by adoring critics."
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Released: June 1, 2013
"A cute memoir of living in India with some advice for expatriates as well."
