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The Beholder’s Eye

by Walt Harrington

“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…

Matterhorn

by Karl Marlantes

A big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran.

Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold

by Mark Cocker

“Cocker has written a book on a broad subject, the kind that professional historians too rarely produce. . . . Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold is a heroic attempt…

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

by Kiran Desai

“A finely tuned fable that attests to the author’s pitch-perfect ear. . . . The author delineates [the characters] with such with and bemused affection that they insinuate themselves insidiously…

Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine

by Warren Leight

“Leight’s writing remains quick, graceful and generous a worthy companion piece to Side Man.” –Linda Winer, Newsday…

Confessions of a Mullah Warrior

by Masood Farivar

From an Afghan with deep roots in his nation’s history, a courageous and evocative memoir of fleeing the Soviet invasion, coming of age in a madrassa in Pakistan, fighting the…

Miss Witherspoon & Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge

by Christopher Durang

“An endearingly meditative farce . . . It’s a pleasure to note that [Durang] hasn’t lost his screwball.” –Richard Corliss, Time…

A Diamond in the Desert

by Jo Tatchell

Part history, part memoir, part travel guide, this search for the mysteries behind one of the world’s richest cities is “the best book . . . on the Gulf coast…

A Certain Curve of Horn

by John Frederick Walker

“Walker writes with insight and compassion. . . . A Certain Curve of Horn deserves to be ranked with Peter Mathiessen’s classic, The Snow Leopard. It underscores the sanctity of…

Seven Mile Beach

by Tom Gilling

“Unusual, fast, light, short, suspenseful, meaningful, and filled with an immigrant’s pointed observations about identity and the possibility of changing it. . . . [With an] appealing stench of paranoia…