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Released: June 4, 2013
"Guys' guys may enjoy, but they could just as easily listen to Carton's radio show."
"The Howard Stern of Sports Radio" offers a mishmash of intermittently interesting anecdotes and biographical sketches.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Better than your average memoir of rise, fall and redemption."
Pitching great Gooden tells the story of his spectacular baseball career and the loss of it all through a devastating cocaine addiction.
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Released: June 4, 2013
"Not a fun read, but a wonderfully crafted portrait of a tormented homosexual writer."
A revealing biography of the brilliant, arrogant author of
The Gallery (1947), a celebrated World War II novel.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 3, 2013
"An informative but occasionally too-dry behind-the-scenes look into the funeral industry and its reflection on contemporary society in inner-city Baltimore."
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Released: June 3, 2013
"Pleasant enough beach reading for romantics and believers in fate but probably not for fans of Larry David."
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Released: June 3, 2013
"A sympathetic and deeply moving story."
A writer and former WNYC radio producer's lovingly crafted memoir about growing up with her gay poet dad in San Francisco during the 1970s and '80s.
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NONFICTION
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
"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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NONFICTION
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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NONFICTION
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 compelling example of investigative reporting that suggests continuing mass death for an African population that cannot or will not help itself find peace."
An intrepid journalist investigates the civil war, foreign interventions and mass starvation of Somalia.
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Released: June 1, 2013
"Gossipy, rambling and enchanting, alive with Mason's love for books of every variety."
