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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9781565126800Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 02/01/2010
Winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice.
This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. Growing up in the 1980s, she confronts her identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.
Recommended by: Jet
This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. Growing up in the 1980s, she confronts her identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.
Recommended by: Jet
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9781568584089Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Nation Books, 12/01/2009
What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. He stooped over lettuce fields in Arizona, and worked the graveyard shift at a chicken slaughterhouse in rural Alabama. He dodged taxis—not always successfully—as a bicycle delivery “boy” for an upscale Manhattan restaurant, and was fired from a flower shop by a boss who, he quickly realized, was nuts.
As one coworker explained, “These jobs make you old quick.” Back spasms occasionally keep Thompson in bed, where he suffers recurring nightmares involving iceberg lettuce and chicken carcasses. Combining personal narrative with investigative reporting, Thompson shines a bright light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting, and lax government enforcement—while telling the stories of workers, undocumented immigrants, and desperate US citizens alike, forced to live with chronic pain in the pursuit of $8 an hour.
As one coworker explained, “These jobs make you old quick.” Back spasms occasionally keep Thompson in bed, where he suffers recurring nightmares involving iceberg lettuce and chicken carcasses. Combining personal narrative with investigative reporting, Thompson shines a bright light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting, and lax government enforcement—while telling the stories of workers, undocumented immigrants, and desperate US citizens alike, forced to live with chronic pain in the pursuit of $8 an hour.
Wild Child (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780670021420Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Viking Adult, 01/01/2010
A superb new collection from "a writer who can take you anywhere" (The New York Times)
In the title story of this rich new collection, T.C. Boyle has created so vivid and original a retelling of the story of Victor, the feral boy who was captured running naked through the forests of Napoleonic France, that it becomes not just new but definitive: yes, this is how it must have been. The tale is by turns magical and moving, a powerful investigation of what it means to be human.
Brilliant, incisive, and always entertaining, Boyle's short stories showcase the mischievous humor and socially conscious sensibility that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.
The Unnamed (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780316034012Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Reagan Arthur Books, 01/01/2010
From the author of National Book Award Finalist Then We Came to the End
Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. He loves his wife, his family, his work, his home. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking.
THE UNNAMED is a dazzling novel about a marriage and a family and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. It is the heartbreaking story of a life taken for granted and what happens when that life is abruptly and irrevocably taken away.
Recommended by: Lisa & Joanna
Small Wars (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780061929885Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harper, 01/01/2010
From the prizewinning author of The Outcast: a passionate and beautifully written tale of personal loss in the midst of war in late 1950s Cyprus, Small Wars raises important questions that are just as relevant today.
What happens when everything a man believes in — the army, his country, his marriage — begins to crumble? Hal Treherne is a young British soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. Transferred to Cyprus to defend the colony, Hal takes his wife, Clara, and their daughters with him. But Hal is pulled into atrocities that take him further from Clara, a betrayal that is only one part of a shocking personal crisis to come.
Just Kids (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780066211312Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Ecco, 01/01/2010
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.
Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography.
Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame.
Recommended by: Joanna
Shadow Tag (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780061536090Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harper, 02/01/2010
Yalta (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780670021413Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Viking Adult, 02/01/2010
Beneath the Lion's Gaze (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780393071764Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 01/01/2010
This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die. And Dawit, Hailu's youngest son, has joined an underground resistance movement—a choice that will lead to more upheaval and bloodshed across a ravaged Ethiopia.
Point Omega (Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9781439169957Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Scribner, 02/01/2010
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