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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
Author : David Hajdu
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price : $26
The Ten-Cent Plague explains how the comic-book-bands exploded as a popular form of entertainment between the end of World War II and the era of television. Its popularity with children drew the ire of church groups and other protectors of traditional societal and literary values. Claims were made that comic books contributed to juvenile delinquency. David Hajdu's book has received positive reviews with the New York like, “On its own, this book tells an amazing story with thrills and chills more extreme than the workings of a comic book's imagination."
Source: www.bookforum.com |
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Wit’s End
Author : Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Price : $24.95
Wit's End is a story of 29-year-old Rima Lanisell, who arrives at her godmother, Addison’s California home called Wit's End after her father’s death. Addison writes mysteries under the name A. B. Early. Rima is curious about the between Addison and her father. Rima discovers that a cult that existed in California decades before might hold the answers to her questions. The novel is about old secrets, unresolved mysteries, and the need to know and understand.
Source:www.powells.com
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Price : $30.00
Human Smoke delivers a closely textured, deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s. Incorporating meticulous research and well-documented sources -- including newspaper and magazine articles, radio speeches, memoirs, and diaries -- the book juxtaposes hundreds of interrelated moments of decision, brutality, suffering, and mercy. Vivid glimpses of political leaders and their dissenters illuminate and examine the gradual, horrifying advance toward overt global war and Holocaust.
Source:www.latimes.com
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Dreamers of the Day: A Novel
Author : Mary Doria Russell
Publisher : Random House
Price : $25.00
The striking feaure of this book is that it is told in an exuberant, posthumous voice of Agnes Shanklin, a 38-year-old schoolteacher from Cedar Glen, a town near Cleveland, Ohio. After her whole family dies in 1919 in the influenza epidemic, she settles the family estate, acquires financial independence and travels to various parts of the world and befriends several historical figures. Agnes's travelogues are marvelously detailed. When a more worldly-wise Agnes returns home, her life—first as an investor wrecked by the Depression and then a librarian until her death in 1957—remains low-keyed. Russell has created an instantly likable heroine whose unlikely adventures will keep readers hooked to the end.
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Hold Tight,
by Harlan Coben,
Publisher: Dutton,
Price: $26.95
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The Last Lecture,
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Publisher: Hyperion
Price: $21.95
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Where Are You Now?
by Mary Higgins Clark,
Publisher: Simon & Schuster,
Price: $25.95
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Just Who Will You Be?
by Maria Shriver
Publisher: Hyperion
Price: $14.95
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The Miracle at Speedy Motors,
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Price: $22.95
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The Secret
by Rhonda Byrne ,
Publisher: Beyond Words ,
Price: $23.95
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Compulsion
by Jonathan Kellerman
Publisher: Ballantine,
Price: $27
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Home
by Julie Andrews
Publisher: Hyperion,
Price: $26.95
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Belong to Me,
by Marisa de Los Santos.
Publisher: Morrow,
Price: $24.95
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Escape
by Carolyn Jessop & Laura
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