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IPHIGENIA IN FOREST HILLS, by Janet Malcolm

May 30, 2011

THOUGHTFUL, ELOQUENT, MORALLY complex look at a murder trial; sobering, and exactly opposite to sensationalism.

Grade: B PLUS

IPHIGENIA IN FOREST HILLS: ANATOMY OF A MURDER TRIAL
Yale University Press
2011

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LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF SAUSAGES, by Tom Holt

May 29, 2011

MASTER OF SPEC-FIC SILLINESS Tom Holt brings us another delightfully funny romp of magic and muddled dimensions.

Grade: B PLUS

LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF SAUSAGES
Orbit
2011

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SERIOUS MEN, by Manu Joseph

May 28, 2011

INTRIGUE AT A MUMBAI research institute highlights the impact of class, caste, and gender in deftly comic novel.

Grade: B PLUS

SERIOUS MEN
W. W. Norton & Company
2010

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A LESSON IN SECRETS, by Jacqueline Winspear

May 27, 2011

THE BEST MAISIE DOBBS mystery yet finds the English sleuth facing the fallout of 1932’s international tensions.

Grade: B PLUS

A LESSON IN SECRETS: A MAISIE DOBBS MYSTERY
HarperCollins
2011

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TIGER, TIGER, by Margaux Fragoso

May 26, 2011

SEARINGLY CANDID MEMOIR of the writer’s years of abuse by a charismatic pedophile and neglect by her parents.

Grade: B PLUS

TIGER, TIGER
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2011

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BULLFIGHTING, by Roddy Doyle

May 24, 2011

RODDY DOYLE’S NEW story collection crafts wistful poetry out of the everyday trials and triumphs of Irish men.

Grade: B PLUS

BULLFIGHTING
Viking
2011

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AND STILL PEACE DID NOT COME, by Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna and Emily Holland

May 23, 2011

A LIBERIAN BROADCASTER sketches a portrait of her conflict-torn country in her own story, those of listeners.

Grade: B PLUS

AND STILL PEACE DID NOT COME: A MEMOIR OF RECONCILIATION
Hyperion
2011

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THE GODS OF GREENWICH, by Norb Vonnegut

May 21, 2011

TENSE, TAUT FINANCIAL THRILLER from Norb Vonnegut is set in the rarefied world of global hedge fund skulduggery.

Grade: B PLUS

THE GODS OF GREENWICH
St. Martin's/Minotaur
2011

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PICTURES OF YOU, by Caroline Leavitt

May 20, 2011

A SUDDEN TRAGEDY links two Cape Cod families in this delicate, complex, elegaic novel.  Truly touching.

Grade: B PLUS

PICTURES OF YOU
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
2011

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TURK! (KEMAL KAYANKAYA SERIES #1) by Jakob Arjouni

May 17, 2011

SURLY AND SARCASTIC as Spade, quixotic as Marlowe, Turkish-German detective Kemal Kayankaya is simply The Man. B PLUS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TURK! (KEMAL KAYANKAYA SERIES #1)
Melville House Publishing
2011

Grade: B PLUS

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