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THAT WOMAN by Anne Sebba

May 21, 2012

THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR gets yet another biography; this one offers some interesting new information, insights. SOLID B

THAT WOMAN: THE LIFE OF WALLIS SIMPSON, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR
St. Martin’s Press
2013

Grade: SOLID B

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THAT WOMAN, by Anne Sebba

May 20, 2012

THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR gets yet another biography; this one offers some interesting new information, insights.

Grade: SOLID B

THAT WOMAN: THE LIFE OF WALLIS SIMPSON, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR
St. Martin's Press
2012

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THE REVISIONISTS, by Thomas Mullen

May 19, 2012

SUBTLE, MIND-BENDING THRILLER compellingly mixes time travel, espionage, and digital revolutionaries. Wild!

Grade: A MINUS

THE REVISIONISTS
Little, Brown and Company
2011

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AGORAFABULOUS! by Sara Benincasa

May 18, 2012

THE FUNNIEST AGORAPHOBIA MEMOIR ever written?  Almost certainly, but there’s insight aplenty as well.

Grade: B PLUS

AGORAFABULOUS! DISPATCHES FROM MY BEDROOM
William Morrow
2012

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GETAWAY, by Lisa Brackmann

May 17, 2012

A VACATIONING WIDOW gets caught in the undertow of a Mexican drug war in this savvy noir-esque thriller.

Grade: B PLUS

GETAWAY
Soho Press
2012

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THE RECONSTRUCTIONIST, by Nick Arvin

May 16, 2012

QUIETLY COMPELLING, EVOCATIVE novel about an accident investigator haunted by his brother’s early death.

Grade: B PLUS

THE RECONSTRUCTIONIST
Harper Perennial
2012

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REVOLUTION 2.0, by Wael Ghonim

May 15, 2012

INSIDE THE INTERNET activism that helped to spark the Arab Spring protests, with one of its early organizers.

Grade: SOLID B

REVOLUTION 2.0: THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE IS GREATER THAN THE PEOPLE IN POWER
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2012

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MEMOIR OF A DEBULKED WOMAN, by Susan Gubar

May 14, 2012

SEARINGLY PERSONAL, YET incisively analytical memoir of ovarian cancer from women’s studies star Susan Gubar.

Grade: B PLUS

MEMOIR OF A DEBULKED WOMAN: ENDURING OVARIAN CANCER
W. W. Norton and Company
2012

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BEFORE THE POISON, by Peter Robinson

May 13, 2012

MARVELOUSLY CRAFTED NOVEL of an expatriate returning to England and being caught up in a 60-year-old murder.

Grade: A MINUS

BEFORE THE POISON
William Morrow
2012

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EMINENT OUTLAWS, by Christopher Bram

May 12, 2012

THE EXTRAORDINARY LITERARY HISTORY of gay writers in America, particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Grade: B PLUS

EMINENT OUTLAWS: THE GAY WRITERS WHO CHANGED AMERICA
Grand Central
2012

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