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The
New York Times Book Review
For May 4, 2008
Please
call if you wish to be placed on the reserve list for
one of these books or to check on its availability.
885-7000 or 885-9411
Fiction
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HOLD TIGHT, by
Harlan Coben. ($26.95.) The
aftermath of a high school kid's suicide rocks a
New Jersey suburb. (available) |
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WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon &
Schuster, $25.95.) A woman searches for
the truth about her brother, who is alive but
has disappeared. (available) |
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THE MIRACLE AT
SPEEDY MOTORS, by Alexander McCall Smith.
(Pantheon, $22.95.) The ninth novel in the
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. (on
order) |
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UNACCUSTOMED EARTH,
by Jhumpa Lahiri. (Knopf, $25.00.)
Stories about the anxiety and transformation
experienced by Bengali parents and their
American children. (available) |
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CERTAIN GIRLS,
by Jennifer Weiner. (Atria, $26.95.)
A girl discovers the sexy, somewhat
autobiographical novel her mother wrote years
earlier. (available) |
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THE APPEAL, by
John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95)
Political and legal intrigue ensue when a
Mississippi court decides against a chemical
company accused of dumping toxic waste.
(available)
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COMPULSION, by
Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $27.00.)
Several Los Angeles women are murdered, and the
psychologist-detective Alex Delaware
investigates. (available) |
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BELONG TO ME,
by Marisa de los Santos. (Morrow, $24.95.)
When she moves to the suburbs, a woman becomes
enmeshed in complications and secrets.
(available) |
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SMALL FAVOR, by
Jim Butcher. (Roc, $23.95.) Book 10
of the Dresden Files series about a wizard
detective in Chicago. (available) |
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CHANGE OF HEART,
by Jodi Piccoult. (Artia, $26.95.)
A prisoner on death row begins performing
miracles. (available) |
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BULLS ISLAND,
by Dorothea Benton Frank. (Morrow,
$24.95.) An investment banker returns to
the South Carolina island home she had left 20
years before. (available) |
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A THOUSAND SPLENDID
SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead,
$25.95.) A friendship between two women in
Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of
war: from the author of "The Kite Runner."
(available) |
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REMEMBER ME ?, by
Sophie Kinsella. (Dial, $25.00.) A
woman wakes up in a London hospital after an
auto accident with no memory of the previous
life-changing three years. (available) |
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THE BRIEF WONDROUS
LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, by Junot Diaz.
(Riverhead, $24.95.) A Dominican-American in New
Jersey struggles to escape a family curse.
(available) |
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THE THIRD ANGEL,
by Alice Hoffman. (Shaye Areheart,
$25.00.) Interwoven stories of three women
who face crossroads in their lives. (on
order) |
Non
Fiction
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BEAUTIFUL BOY,
by David Sheff. (Houghton Mifflin,
$24.00.) A father struggles with his son's
meth addiction. (available) |
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HOME, by
Julie Andrews. (Hyperion, $26.95.) A
memoir of Andrew's early years, from birth to
being cast in Mary Poppins. (available) |
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MISTAKEN
IDENTITY, by Don and Susie Van Ryn and
Newell, Colleen and Whitney Cerak, with Mark
Tabb. (Howard, $21.95.) The families
of two girls whose identities were confused
after a 2006 accident describe their experience.
(available) |
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LADIES OF
LIBERTY, by Cokie Roberts. (Morrow,
$26.95.) The influential women of early
America. (on order) |
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ESCAPE, by
Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer.
(Broadway, $24.95.) A former member of a
fundamentalist polygamous sect describes her
forced marriage to a much older man.
(available) |
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GIRLS LIKE US,
by Sheila Weller. (Atria, $27.95.)
The lives and times of Carole King, Joni
Mitchell and Carly Simon. (available) |
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BAD MONEY, by
Kevin Phillips. (Viking, $25.95.)
How the financial sector has hijacked the
American economy, aided by Washington's ruinous
faith in the efficiency of markets. (on
order) |
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ARMAGEDDON IN
RETROSPECT, by Kurt Vonnegut. (Putnam,
$24.95.) Twelve unpublished writings on
war and peace by the novelist, who died in 2007.
(available) |
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IN DEFENSE OF
FOOD, by Michael Pollan. (Penguin
Press, $21.95.) A manifesto urges us to
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly
plants." (available) |
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BRETT FAVRE:
THE TRIBUTE, (Sports Illustrated, $27.95.)
From the magazine, articles about and pictures
of the Green Bay Packers quarterback.
(available) |
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BONK, by Mary
Roach. (Norton, $24.95.) An amusing
look at the science of sexual physiology.
(on order) |
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TERROR AND
CONSENT, by Phillip Bobbit. (Knopf,
$35.00.) A historical, legal and strategic
analysis of the "war on terror" questions
whether democratic states can survive in the
21st century. (on order) |
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STANDING TALL,
by C. Vivian Stringer with Laura Tucker.
(Crown, $24.95.) A memoir by the head
coach of the Rutgers women's basketball team.
(on order) |
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LOSING IT, by
Valerie Bertinelli. (Free Press, $26.00.)
A memoir by the actress and former wife of Eddie
Van Halen focuses on depression and her effort
to lose weight. (available) |
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PHYSICS OF THE
IMPOSSIBLE, by Michio Kaku.
(Doubleday, $26.95) A theoretical
physicist who is one of the founders of string
theory discusses the possibility of phenomena
like force fields, teleportation and time
travel. (avaialble) |
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