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F I C T I O N The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Hyperbole, didactic asides, verbal puns, lewd jokes: What can it be but a high-flying new novel from the author of "The Satanic Verses"?
Ain't Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice
by April Sinclair
This sequel to "Coffee Will Make You Black" chronicles the absurdities of 1970s radical chic, as glimpsed through the eyes of a young African-American woman.
Self-Portrait with Woman by Andrzej Szczypiorski
Memory as history and love as oppression are the twin themes of this complex novel about a "doomed romantic" in Warsaw.
White Rabbit by Kate Phillips
At age 88, the finicky heroine of this imaginative first novel finds her routine life abruptly turned upside down.
Picturing the Wreck by Dani Shapiro
An embittered 64-year-old psychoanalyst tracks down the long-lost son he briefly glimpses in a TV broadcast.
N O N F I C T I O N Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The true story of Chris McCandless, a young idealist who gave away everything he owned and marched into the Alaskan wilderness in search of "raw, transcendent experience." His body was found a few months later.
The Story of Jane by Laura Kaplan
A "collective memoir" of a legendary underground abortion service that operated in America from 1969 to 1973.
She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul by Lucy O'Brien
From female vaudeville acts to Courtney Love, this British music writer chronicles women in the pop pantheon -- as musicians and industry insiders, music engineers and disc jockeys.
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
The author relates the story of his mother, the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, who moved to Harlem at age 18 and married a black man.
Where I Stopped: Remembering Rape at Thirteen
by Martha Ramsey
Two decades after the author was raped by a stranger on a country road in New Jersey, she returned to uncover some stark emotional truths about her ordeal.
