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THE BEST OF YOUTH, by Michael Dahlie

January 17, 2013

OFFBEAT TRAGICOMEDY OF manners about a hapless young man with plenty of money and too many literary ambitions.

Grade: B PLUS

THE BEST OF YOUTH
W. W. Norton & Company
2013

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LOVE’S WINNING PLAYS, by Inman Majors

January 12, 2013

GENTLY CYNICAL TALE of big college football sends a diffident grad student roadtripping with a legendary coach.

Grade: B PLUS

LOVE'S WINNING PLAYS
W. W. Norton & Company
2012

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A PRIVATE VENUS, by Giorgio Scerbanenco

January 6, 2013

A DISGRACED DOCTOR UNCOVERS a sordid web of crime in this classic Italian sixties pulp novel (newly translated).

Grade: B PLUS

A PRIVATE VENUS
Hersilia Press
2012

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VENICE, by Thomas F. Madden

January 5, 2013

A MAGNIFICENT LOVE LETTER to the city of Venice, in the form of an engaging, richly detailed work of history.

Grade: B PLUS

VENICE: A NEW HISTORY
Viking
2012

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SWIMMING HOME, by Deborah Levy

January 3, 2013

A HAZY TANGLE OF EMOTIONS comes to light under the French sun in this Woolf-esque tragicomedy of manners.

Grade: B PLUS

SWIMMING HOME
Bloomsbury USA
2012

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AND WHEN SHE WAS GOOD, by Laura Lippman

January 2, 2013

TAUT, SUSPENSEFUL TALE follows a high-end madam whose safe double life as a suburban mom is rapidly unraveling.

Grade: B PLUS

AND WHEN SHE WAS GOOD
William Morrow
2012

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LITTLE STAR, by John Ajvide Lindqvist

December 30, 2012

BLEAK, TERRIFYING NOVEL from Swedish horror superstar John Ajvide Lindqvist wields the power of a nightmare.

Grade: B PLUS

LITTLE STAR
St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne Books
2012

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THE PSEUDOSCIENCE WARS, by Michael D. Gordin

December 28, 2012

FASCINATING SOCIAL HISTORY of “pseudoscience” debates focuses on Velikovsky’s “worlds in collision” theory.

Grade: B PLUS

THE PSEUDOSCIENCE WARS: IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY AND THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN FRINGE
University of Chicago Press
2012

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THE MAP OF THE SKY, by Félix J. Palma

December 27, 2012

GRAND STEAMPUNKY COLLAGE of science fiction and historical fact revolves around H. G. Wells’s WAR OF THE WORLDS.

Grade: B PLUS

THE MAP OF THE SKY
Atria
2012

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BELUGA, by Rick Gavin

December 26, 2012

RAMSHACKLE DELTA PICARESQUE finds two tough repo men trying to help the world’s most no-account thieves.

Grade: B PLUS

BELUGA
St. Martin's Press
2012

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