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Mar 29, 2002
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A Blessing On The Moon
Joseph Skibell
Joseph Skibell
In the first paragraph of A Blessing On The Moon, the Jewish residents of a Polish village are rounded up and shot, their bodies thrown...
Jan 31, 2003
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A Box Of Matches
Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker
The foundation of A Box Of Matches couldn't be simpler or less novelistic: Each morning, Emmett, a middle-aged textbook editor, wakes up...
Jul 6, 2004
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Mar 29, 2002
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A Change Is Gonna Come
Craig Werner
Craig Werner
There are two types of obsessive music fans: those who can list personnel, labels, catalog numbers, and recording dates for thousands of songs...
Mar 15, 2005
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A Changed Man
Francine Prose
Francine Prose
There's a fair amount of skepticism, if not outright irony, embedded in the title of Francine Prose's tough-minded novel A Changed Man,...
Apr 3, 2002
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A Child's Book Of True Crime
Chloe Hooper
Chloe Hooper
Practically every other chapter in Chloe Hooper's novel A Child's Book Of True Crime breaks from the main narrative to demonstrate the...
Apr 17, 2008
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A Church Of Her Own
Sarah Sentilles
Sarah Sentilles
Profiles of ordained women find sexism alive and well in religions across America, even those seemingly comfortable with female ministers.
Mar 29, 2002
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A Civil War: Army vs. Navy
John Feinstein
John Feinstein
The purity mentioned in this book's title is the same thing many sportswriters say is missing from modern football. The Cadets of Army and the...
Apr 19, 2002
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A Cold Case
Philip Gourevitch
Philip Gourevitch
On Jan. 6, 1997, the Manhattan District Attorney's chief of investigations, Andy Rosenzweig, happened to be reminded of a friend who had been...
Mar 29, 2002
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A Conspiracy Of Paper
David Liss
David Liss
A retired pugilist who brawled before the advent of "mufflers," Benjamin Weaver—the indefatigable hero of David Liss' masterful...