FICTION
Released: Aug. 11, 2009
"A real shot to the heart--a resonant portrait of a man out to prove he can take anything the world throws at him."
CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 13, 2009
"Compelling. (Fiction. YA)"
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 3, 2009
"Though not a vivid stylist, Auletta uncovers some endlessly colorful material and assesses its prospects critically but fairly--Google will thrive, he thinks, but they'd better guard against naïveté and complacency."
The
New Yorker's "Annals of Communication" columnist Auletta (
Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbably Empire, 2004, etc.) goes behind the digital revolution to detail the past decade of astonishing growth at Google.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2010
"Distinctly subpar. (Graphic classic. 13 & up)"
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre may seem a fairly innocuous choice for a graphic-novel adaption, but Corzine proves otherwise.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 18, 2010
"Techno-mysticism aside, a timely and urgent book about the possibly dangerous fruits of human inventiveness."
Wired founding editor Kelly (
Asia Grace, 2002, etc.) attempts to balance a clear-eyed overview of the rise of technology and its place with a grand statement about
what it all means.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 26, 2010
"All legendary athletes should hope for treatment by such capable, compassionate hands."
A sympathetic, moving life of the Brown Bomber by veteran cultural historian and biographer Roberts (History/Purdue Univ.;
The Rock, the Curse, and the Hub: A Random History of Boston Sports, 2005, etc.).
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