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Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
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In a departure from her earlier collection, The Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri sets these eight short stories essentially in the U.S. The protagonists are second-generation middle-class Bengali expatriates, born and brought up in a culture that, while different from
their parents’, allows them to embrace the typical youthful angsts of love, friendship, responsibility, and disappointment.
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Bring Down the Sun (Alexander the Great) by Judith Tarr
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Taking up the legend of Alexander the Great’s parentage, Judith Tarr delves into the romantic fantasy surrounding Polyxena, brought up to be a priestess of the “Great Goddess” and born sister to the Queen of Epiros.
Set in the time of ancient Greece and Macedon, the visions of gods and goddesses
surround the tale of two lovers, bound for eternity and destined for prominence
both in their time and in beyond. Tarr lets the reader into the innermost family sanctum, giving us an intimate perspective on Alexander the Great’s antecedents.
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Rae Meadows talks with Michael Leonard about No One Tells Everything, the slippery nature of memory, juxtaposing a sense of inevitability with suspense, and finding inspiration all over the place. Click here for
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The Boys from Dolores by Peter Symmes
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When the former students of the Jesuit school known as Colegio de Dolores gather for their annual reunion, their nostalgic moments are more profound than most. In addition to lost youth, lost innocence, and lost loves, the Dolorinos mourn the loss of their homeland. “Unmoored” is how author Patrick Symmes describes The Boys from Dolores, these cubanos in self-imposed exile. Click here for more on The Boys from Dolores.
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Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen
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A “league of scouts, weather-watchers, trailblazers, and protectors,”
the Mouse Guards pass their knowledge and skills from generation to generation. In the turmoil-ridden times of the Fall of 1152, they
must face and overcome an attempted usurpation of power by a mysterious mouse who claims to possess the legendary Black Axe.
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IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS |
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The Truth: I'm a Girl, I'm Smart and I Know Everything by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein
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It seems that too often the important questions of life are brushed off for any number of reasons. Reading the frustrations of this one girl, we can be reminded that regardless of the answers, the questioners deserve attention and respect.
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SOLZHENITSYN'S THE FIRST CIRCLE UNCUT
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CHICAGO CRIME-WRITERS COMPETITION
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HarperPerennial will release the first uncut English edition of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle in 2009,
45 years after the original novel's completion.
The 89-year-old Nobel laureate's narrative, set in a gulag where the Stalinist regime sequestered academics for alleged subversion, was banned by Soviet officials even after the author had cut nine chapters.
Thomas Lask of New York Times says that The First Circle is "at once classic and contemporary. Reading it, we know that it has been with us for years, just as we know future generations will read it with wonder and with awe."
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AP/Yahoo! News
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Win publication of your crime fiction story in an upcoming issue of
Time Out Chicago!
Michael Harvey, author of The Chicago Way and co-creator of Cold Case Files, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Time Out Chicago, and Intelligentsia invite you to try your hand at crime fiction for a chance to win publication of your story in
Time Out Chicago. One grand prize and two runners-up will be chosen.
Entries must be postmarked by Sept. 2, 2008.
Click here for official rules.
Source: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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