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F I C T I O N You Have the Wrong Man By Maria Flook
Eight short stories, populated by aimless young working-class men and women in Providence, Rhode Island, tell of jobs, family and our perverse appetite for unhappiness.
The End of Alice By A.M. Homes
The vivid and disturbing novel about an imprisoned sex offender and his college-age female correspondent, from the author of "In A Country of Mothers."
Grey Area By Will Self
The jury is still out on British writer Will Self -- is he a genius or merely a willfully perverse showman? If the nine stories here are any indication, he remains a little of both.
The Last Integrationist By Jake Lamar
From the author of the controversial memoir "Bourgeois Blues," this first novel, set in the near future, chronicles the struggles of the first black United States Attorney General.
Edisto Revisted By Padgett Powell
The sequel to Powell's acclaimed "Edisto," this quixotic novel about one man's search for identity (and a steady job) serves up a delicious oxymoron: the Modern Southerner.
N O N F I C T I O N The Way We Are By Margaret Visser
Sixty quirky, far-ranging and pedagogic essays on topics such as spitting, wedding cakes and the Easter Bunny, from the acclaimed Toronto food writer.
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
In this major new examination of the Holocaust, the author indicts not only Hitler's armies but also the majority of average Germans, so steeped in anti-Semitism, he argues, that the killing "made sense to them."
Confessions of an Ivy League Bookie By Peter Alson
An up-to-the-minute exploration of gambling and its discontents, from the shaded campus of Brown University to New York's mean streets.
Men in Black By John Harvey
An historical investigation of that most fashionable and funereal of all sartorial choices, wearing black.
Reasonable Doubts: The O.J. Simpson Case and the Criminal Justice System By Alan M. Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz -- talented lawyer, engaged thinker, and consigliere for high society's most illustrious bottom-feeders -- says that the O.J. Simpson trial shows that all is well with our legal system.
