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Jenny Lawson, Let’s Pret…
A side-splittingly funny debut Listening to Jenny Lawson — often better k… more »
Peter Bergen, Manhunt
The full story of the most expensive manhunt ever conducted Osama bin Lad… more »
Charlotte Rogan, The Lifeboat…
Communicates what might be resonant and timeless about such a calamity Th… more »
Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker…
Humor, intrigue and the secret life of mechanical bees Nick Harkaway is a… more »
Lauren Groff, Arcadia
A hippie heaven goes to hell All utopias fail (seen one around recently?)… more »
Rachel Dratch, Girl Walks into…
Laugh-out-loud wit and plenty of self-deprecation "Where have you been?" … more »
Sanjay Gupta, Monday Mornings…
A taut medical drama for fans of surgical soaps Fans of surgical soap ope… more »
Rachel Maddow, Drift: The Unmo…
There's a sense of fairness to Drift that has won some unexpected hearts … more »
Cheryl Strayed, Wild
An affecting memoir that voids the temptation for wholesale epiphany Ther… more »
Mark Leyner, The Sugar Frosted…
The book is an epic, a supernatural oral tradition infinitely revised. Fo… more »
Anthony Shadid , House of Ston…
A reporter's eye and a son's heart converge in war-torn Lebanon It's a li… more »
Kristen Johnston, Guts…
Confessions that are brave and devoid of B.S Actress Kristen Johnston was… more »
Heidi Julavits, The Vanishers…
Julavits has a facility with words that makes every detail enchanting Hei… more »
Hari Kunzru, Gods Without Men…
A playful, experimental spirit infuses it throughout Hari Kunzru's newest… more »
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Ga…
Readers will root for Katniss despite — and even because of — her calcula… more »
Thomas Mallon, Watergate…
A refreshing, subversive look at a uniquely American scandal Europ… more »
Baratunde Thurston, How To Be …
An attempt to re-complicate blackness Attention, black people. Lis… more »
Eric Klinenberg, Going Solo…
Explores America’s biggest demographic shift since the baby boomers … more »
Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child…
A magical yet realistic fairy tale of the Alaskan Wilderness Alaskan writ… more »
Emma Straub, Other People We M…
A promising collection from a bold new writer Take Lorrie Moore's … more »
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beau…
Combats one-dimensional depictions of life in Indian slums The "Indian sl… more »
Michael Ian Black,…
Full of inventive insults, but undoubtedly a tribute In his new memoir, Y… more »
Paul Collins, The Murder of th…
A bizarre murder reinvents American journalism When Martin Thorn murdered… more »
Susan Cain, Quiet
A rallying call for introverts everywhere to...be quiet America, argues a… more »
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International Bookshelf
By Jess Sauer, eMusic Contributor
The idea that diverse languages are a form of divine punishment, serving only to separate us, is a popular one in numerous mythologies and religious traditions. In Genesis, humanity is unified by a common tongue… more »
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