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New & Notable Nonfiction: May 2012 (page 3)

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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
Kirkus Star PRIVATE EMPIRE: EXXONMOBIL AND AMERICAN POWER
by Steve Coll
"Leaks, reserves, PACs, hydrofracking, bloated corporate profits and more: all pertinent concerns nicely handled by Coll in this engaging, hard-hitting work."
A thorough, sobering study of the pernicious consolidation of Big Oil. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
Kirkus Star ON THE EVE: THE JEWS OF EUROPE BEFORE THE SECOND WORLD WAR
by Bernard Wasserstein
"A wide-ranging, marvelously complete overview of a diverse, teeming civilization poised for ruin."
A bright, hard glimpse at the final thriving days of European Jewry and the first edges of its unraveling. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
Kirkus Star ARE YOU MY MOTHER?: A COMIC DRAMA
by Alison Bechdel, illustrated by Alison Bechdel
"Subtitled "A Comic Drama," the narrative provides even fewer laughs than its predecessor but deeper introspection."
A psychologically complex, ambitious, illuminating successor to the author's graphic-memoir masterpiece. Read full book review >