NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 16, 2010
"An inspiring account of a very personal battle against "the plague of our generation.""
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 7, 2010
"A skillful synthesis of historical research and contested narrative, resonant with enduring loss."
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 2, 2010
"The author artfully choreographs a huge, sometimes unruly cast, producing a work of elegance, emotion and enduring importance."
A magisterial and often moving history of the silent art by a former dancer and current journalist.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 19, 2010
"A bright, genial and generous introduction to the master's methods."
Former Wellcome Library curator Bakewell (Creative Writing/City Univ. London;
The English Dane: A Life of Jorgen Jorgenson, 2005, etc.) sketches the life of essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533–1592) and traces his evolving reputation.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 21, 2010
"A classic, full of sharp descriptions of life in Palestine and Israel today, urgent in its insistence that peace can come through sharing stories and the time required to tell them."
A provocative antiwar novel by one of Israel's best-known writers (
See Under: Love, 1989, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 15, 2010
"Genuinely remorseful and heartfelt, yet strangely unremarkable."
