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The Last Notebook of Leonardo by B. B. Wurge
October 2010
Jem’s father, a scientific genius, turns himself into a 9-foot orangutan, then packs their belongings onto a huge wagon and leads Jem across Long Island on the ultimate quest: to find the last resting place of Leonardo da Vinci. Their adventures lead to the most unlikely of places—and meetings. |
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In the Lap of the Gods by Li Miao Lovett
November 2010
A dam rises on the Yangtze, uprooting a million lives, and a poor salvager who has lost everything finds an abandoned baby girl. A tale of defiance, of a lost man finding his place—and a new kind of love—in modern China, and a rich man reclaiming his soul and the woman he loved before the Revolution tore them apart.
"An important, even invaluable book, a moving farewell to the old, more humane way of life as China and all the world become technologized and globalized." --Maxine Hong Kingston
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The Facility by Michael Mirolla
December 2010
What to do with Mussolini clones that refuse to stay dead.
How to cope with the power to re-create others forever.
How to lead a “normal” life when memory and identity are no longer unique.
What to do when time means nothing and no one can distinguish real from
simulacra.
Trapped inside
The Facility at a time when humans are undergoing their final convulsive
death rattle on a prion-infected Earth, Fausto struggles to recreate the world he once knew of family and friendship. |
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And Yet They Were Happy by Helen Phillips
April 2011
A young couple sets out to build a life in an unstable world haunted by monsters, plagued by disasters, full of longing--but also one of transformation, wonder, and delight, peopled by the likes of Noah, Bob Dylan, Virgin Mary, and Anne Frank. Hovering between reality and fantasy, whimsy and darkness, these linked fables describe a universe both surreal and familiar.
"Brilliant miniatures...[Phillips'] quietly elegant sentences are as clear as spring water, haunting as our own childhood memories." --Michael Dirda
"A deeply interesting mind is at work in these wry, lyrical stories." --Amy Hempel
"Haunted and lyrical and edible all at once." --Rivka Galchen |
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Something to Say profiles by Richard Klin; photographs by Lily Prince
May 2011
The fusion of art and politics is axiomatic outside the US. In America, their relationship is erratic. This book profiles, in words and photos, disparate creative forces who offer thoughts on their point of engagement with the political sphere. Those profiled include poets; a painter, chef, comedian, filmmaker, cartoonist, and screenwriter; and two iconic 20th-century figures, Pete Seeger and Howard Zinn.
"Klin is an insightful interviewer and a marvelous writer." --Bloomsbury Review |
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