Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
By Jane Leavy
More a social history history than biography, Leavy's book uses Koufax's career (he retired after his best season in 1966 to avoid crippling his arm) to "measure how much things, in and out of baseball, have changed."
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The Hipster Handbook
By Robert Lanham
You've seen them with their mop-top haircuts, retro pocketbooks, and platform shoes. From New York to New Zealand, Hipsters are everywhere. Welcome to the first guide to what it really means to be a Hipster.
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On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9/11: A Story of Loss and Renewal
By Tom Barbash
On Top of the World is the story of Cantor Fitzgerald's CEO Howard Lutnick's — and his firm's — rise and fall and rise again post-9/11.
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Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family
By Al Gore, Tipper Gore
The former vice president and his wife examine how America deals with all of the extraordinary changes that families have been going through in the last few decades. And they ask what it means to be a family today.
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I Don't Know How She Does It
By Allison Pearson
USA TODAY Book Club pick chronicles the world of frazzled working mom Kate Reddy as she juggles the demands of work and family, with her ever-expanding 'Must Remember' lists and feelings of inadequacies.
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The Hours
By Michael Cunningham
This Pulitzer Prize winner is the haunting tale of three women in three different periods of history, including British writer Virginia Woolf, whose stories intertwine and ultimately come together.
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Jinxed
By Carol Higgins Clark
In Jinxed, the latest in the Regan Reilly mystery series by author Mary Higgins Clark's daughter, saucy Los Angeles sleuth Reilly goes in search of a missing wedding guest.
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That Old Ace in the Hole
By Annie Proulx
Award-winning writer Annie Proulx's latest novel is set in the prairie panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and follows Bob Dollar, a callow 25-year-old who's searching haplessly for direction and reward.
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The Carnivorous Carnival
By Lemony Snicket
Read the first chapter of the ninth episode of the Baudelaire siblings' adventures in the popular 'Unfortunate Events' series.
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Life of Pi
By Yann Martel
Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize, Martel chronicles the fantastical adventures of an amazing Indian boy named Pi and his mate Richard Parker — a 250-pound Bengal tiger.
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Welcome to Higby
By Mark Dunn
Author of the acclaimed 2001 hit Ella Minnow Pea is back with the same whimsical charm in Welcome to Higby. Take a long weekend to sit back and enjoy the wacky small-town happenings in Mississippi.
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Reversible Errors
By Scott Turow
USA TODAY Book Club pick wrestles with the eternally thorny question of the death penalty, allowing the author to display his ability to capture the full range of damaged souls that inhabit the legal system.
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Lucky
By Alice Sebold
Author of the best-selling The Lovely Bones chronicles her experience as a rape victim in this 1999 book. It's a vivid, compelling, first-hand account of being a victim and recovering.
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My Losing Season
By Pat Conroy
A gripping novel about loss and the redemptive power of storytelling. It explores what Conroy calls "the great secret of athletics: You can learn more from losing than winning."
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The Contortionist's Handbook
By Craig Clevenger
Clevenger's haunting debut novel introduces an unusually gifted man, John Dolan Vincent, who spends a lifetime bending the rules and his identity to stay out of mental institutions.
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Callie's Tally
By Betsy Howie
After a tough pregnancy and delivery, mom keeps herself 'sane' by saving every receipt related to her pregnancy and child's infancy, from her weekly Weight Watchers fee to stacks of wipes and formula.
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The Perma Red
By Debra Magpie Earling
A headstrong, reckless young woman, Louise White Elk, struggles with poverty, chafes under cruel nuns at the mission school and wonders if 'there was something more.'
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The Dream of Scipio
By Iain Pears
Three stories are set during three climactic periods: the death throes of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the plague years in the 14th century, and World War II.
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Bad Boy Brawly Brown
By Walter Mosley
Set in Los Angeles in 1964, private detective Easy Rawlins does a 'favor' for an old friend: find his girlfriend’s missing son who’s joined a group of black revolutionaries.
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Why I'm Like This
By Cynthia Kaplan
A New York-based actress and writer takes readers on a chronological journey through her life, from her steamy afternoons at summer camp to the birth of her first child.
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The Lovely Bones
By Alice Sebold
A murdered girl narrates from heaven, describing her view of life, heaven and her family. She also keeps an eye on her killer and the sad detective working on her case.
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Nanny Diaries
By Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Follows a nanny in her year with an upper class family and captures the strange and pampered life of New York's elite as they skillfully evade raising their own offspring.
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