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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by Jeanette Winterson“A daring, unconventional comic novel . . . by employing quirky anecdotes, which are told with romping humor, and by splicing various parables into the narrative, Winterson allows herself the…
The Death of James Dean
by Warren Newton Beath“Beath’s profiles of some of the odd, obsessed fans who keep the Dean legend alive [are] brilliant, recalling Nathanael West.” –Publishers Weekly…
The Miracle Detective
by Randall Sullivan“An intrepid Portland journalist crafts a fascinating exploration of how the Catholic Church investigates purported sightings of the Virgin Mary; a globe-trotting, first-person spiritual odyssey that took him to northeastern…
Charlie Johnson in the Flames
by Michael Ignatieff“A gripping thriller. It is easy to be swept along by the fast action, and to be sucked into Charlie’s roguish world of sleazy hotels, battle-scarred hacks and shady fixers….
The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens
by John Rechy“A potent compound of both sex and rapture. . . . This remarkable story, as Rechy tells it, is sly, smart, sexy and laugh-out-loud funny, but it is also tinged…
Grove at Home: July 12—18
…Bird. Reviewing it in the New York Times on its release, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel praised the book’s “shattering eloquence,” its “deep sincerity and sensitivity.” For his brand-new film adaptation…
Matterhorn
by Karl MarlantesA big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran.
Yesterday’s Weather
by Anne Enright…really. There is mischief in these stories, and some of them are quite funny, though a world-weary wisdom is the recurrent note.” —Christopher Benfey, The New York Times Book Review…
What We Are
by Peter Nathaniel Malae“A rollercoaster ride inside the haunted house of American multi cultural sin and shame. Violent and smart and funny. I am excited by this new writer.” —Sherman Alexie…
Sing Them Home
by Stephanie Kallos“Sing Them Home constantly surprises, changing voices, viewpoints, and tempos, mixing humor and pathos, and introducing a big cast of vividly portrayed characters, major and minor. Readers who admired Kallos’s…
