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."
NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 7, 2010
"An often repetitive but powerful biography."
NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 7, 2010
"An impressive take on the Great Migration, and a truly auspicious debut."
In her ambitious debut, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Wilkerson (Journalism, Narrative Nonfiction/Boston Univ.) examines the Great Migration of African-Americans from World War I to the 1970s.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 7, 2010
"Alternate universes, too."
If Harry Potter lived in an alternate Ireland, had no real magical powers but talked a good game, and fell all over himself every time he saw a girl, he might well belong in this splendid, sardonic magnum opus.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 31, 2010
"If "freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" (as Kris Kristofferson wrote), this book uses too many words to convey too much of nothing."
The epic sprawl of this ambitious yet ultimately unsatisfying novel encompasses everything from indie rock to environmental radicalism to profiteering in the Middle East.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 30, 2010
"Multilayered, provocative and highly accessible, this will appeal to Chan fans, scholars and general readers."
China-born poet and critic Huang (English/Univ. of California, Santa Barbara/
Transpacific Imaginations: History, Literature, Counterpoetics, 2008, etc.) recounts the making of an American folk hero.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 3, 2010
"Longer on wisdom than either surprise or delight, this will mainly interest readers who have been captivated by Keilson's better work."
The first American publication of this 1947 novella accompanies the reissue of the German author's
The Death of the Adversary.
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FICTION
Released: June 8, 2010
"Another ambitious change of pace from talented and visionary Egan, who reinvents the novel for the 21st century while affirming its historic values."
"Time's a goon," as the action moves from the late 1970s to the early 2020s while the characters wonder what happened to their youthful selves and ideals.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 2, 2010
"Revealing and riveting. There's little about his brother, his two marriages or his children, but other memoirs may follow."
Hitchens (
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, 2009, etc.) offers an engrossing account of his lives as a British Navy brat, a socialist activist and a leading essayist and intellectual of our time.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 1, 2010
"A powerful, revealing and authoritative depiction of one the 20th century's most notorious literary figures."
Monumentally engaging account of W. Somerset Maugham's fiercely protected personal life (1874–1965).
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NONFICTION
Released: May 25, 2010
"A welcome contribution to the history of Texas, Westward expansion and Native America."
An appropriately fast-paced life of Comanche leader Quanah Parker and his band, the last Native free riders on the plains.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 27, 2010
"If one person's story can shed light on a larger history, Bird's memoir carries many excellent lessons."
A wise, intimate memoir about growing up the son of an American foreign-service officer in the Middle East, from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bird (co-author,
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 2005, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2010
"An imperfect grab-bag of ruminations that reflect a likable nerdy enthusiasm."
A freewheeling assortment of essays that bring surprising weight to ephemera like Dungeon & Dragons, Doritos and household repair.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 3, 2010
"A book of uncompromising honesty and moral beauty."
Appellate lawyer Dow (Law/Univ. of Houston Law Center;
America's Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great, 2009, etc.) delivers an unsparing indictment of capital punishment in America and the legal system that enables it.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 19, 2010
"Riveting and exquisitely crafted."
Musician, poet and visual artist Smith (
Trois, 2008, etc.) chronicles her intense life with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe during the 1960s and '70s, when both artists came of age in downtown New York.
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