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Monster
by Sanyika Shakur“Radiates [power] with dangerous aplomb . . . Attests not only to Mr. Shakur’s journalistic eye for observation, but also to his novelistic skills as a storyteller [and] an ear…
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…
The Memory of Love
by Aminatta FornaFrom the award-winning author of The Devil That Danced on the Water and Ancestor Stones comes The Memory of Love, a beautiful and masterfully accomplished novel about the resilience of…
Loving Che
by Ana Menéndez“A beautiful and quite possible reinvention of history.” –Alan Cheuse, NPR…
The Lost German Slave Girl
by John Bailey“Bailey has the gifts of a novelist and a readiness to blend fact and conjecture . . . with the result that The Lost German Slave Girl reads like a…
Lonesome Traveler
by Jack Kerouac“Kerouac’s work represents the most extensive experiment in language and literary form undertaken by an American writer of his generation.” –Ann Douglas “ ‘ ’ ”…
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…
Ivory’s Ghosts
by John Frederick Walker“[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory, human kind’s lust for this exquisite treasure, and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process ….
Indian Journals
by Allen Ginsberg“Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius, a con man extraordinaire and probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Whitman.” –Bob Dylan…
