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Tobacco
by Iain Gately“Ambitious . . . informative and perceptive . . . Gately has done a great deal of research . . . and has assembled a lot of useful information in…
Killing Dragons
by Fergus Fleming“Excellent popular history, with its proper share of mad dogs and Englishmen. . . . dramatic and masterful.” –Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure…
Grove at Home: May 17—23
…We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis, and it became an instant New York Times Bestseller. If you’re interesting in getting a feel for the book — one that should…
Water from the Well
by Myra McLarey“An intricate weave of lives that run from 1900 to the 1970s . . . the characters move to a kind of narrative music . . . [McLarey] has a…
In the Fall
by Jeffrey Lent“Majestic . . . epic . . . vital . . . a necessary piece in a uniquely American mosaic.” —The New York Times Book Review…
Word Virus
by William S. Burroughs“Word Virus: The Williams S. Burroughs Reader finally brings the author’s actual writing back to the forefront. In their selections, editors James Grauerholz and Ira Silverberg highlight the many faces…
Mukiwa
by Peter Godwin“From time to time a book comes out of Africa that is so good it grips American readers by their hearts. This should be one of them.” –The Washington Post…
The Coming of the Night
by John Rechy“The question Rechy asks is still potent: Would you die for sex? Rechy’s sizzling literary response . . . is as exciting as it is chilling.” –Pamela Warrick, Los Angeles…
Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe
by Philip McFarland“Harriet Beecher Stowe is one of the great heroines of American history, and Philip McFarland brings her to life in all her glory, in a book at once so dramatic…
The Rose of Martinique
by Andrea Stuart“The Rose of Martinique is a comprehensive and truly empathetic biography. Andrea Stuart, who was raised in the Caribbean, combines scholarly distance with a genuine attempt to understand her heroine.”…
