NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 16, 2010
"An inspiring account of a very personal battle against "the plague of our generation.""
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 16, 2010
"Alternately stomach-wrenching, anger-arousing and spirit-lifting--and always gripping."
The author of
Seabiscuit (2001) returns with another dynamic, well-researched story of guts overcoming odds.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2010
"Successfully dissipating all the perfume, Schiff finds a remarkably complex woman--brutal and loving, dependent and independent, immensely strong but finally vulnerable."
A Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer presents a swift, sympathetic life of one of history's most maligned and legendary women.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 14, 2010
"Elegant, confident prose brings this tale to life, and though the trope of the road as a journey to self-understanding is a very old one, Mengestu gives it a fresh reading."
A sometimes somber, always searching novel of love, loss and the immigrant experience by Ethiopia-born writer Mengestu (
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, 2006).
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 12, 2010
"The novel is rich with detail, and both the Brooklyn and Paris settings provide important grounding for the haunting and beautifully told story. (Fiction. 14 & up)"
Andi Alpers, a 17-year-old music lover, is about to be expelled from her elite private school.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 5, 2010
"Informative, readable and great fun."
Bryson (
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir, 2006, etc.) takes a delightful stroll through the history of domestic life.
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