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Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
Tudor England during the reign of Henry VIII is a place readers have visited many times--but in the hands of Hilary Mantel, it becomes territory both new and unsettling. In Bring Up the Bodies, the sequel to the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall, Mantel weaves a richly textured world that is at once deeply foreign and entirely relevant, coalescing around the single thing that over centuries remains unchanged: the driving passions of people, even those who are kings. Through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell, a man of formidable intellect, the psychological and political complexities...
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Herbivoracious
by Michael Natkin
In Herbivoracious, Michael Natkin offers "a collection of vegetarian recipes that are so full of flavor, so pleasurable to make and to eat, and so satisfying that, if you are an omnivore, you won't give a second thought to the fact that they contain no meat." Natkin first became interested in vegetarian food at the age of 18, when his mother, battling cancer, decided to try a macrobiotic diet. This sparked an enduring passion for food that led to an award-winning vegetarian blog, from which Herbivoracious has emerged.
Vegetarians will be thrilled by the wide variety...
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The Hunt
by Andrew Fukuda
Andrew Fukuda (The Crossing) takes the feeling of isolation that dominates adolescence and builds a world around it in a novel where the tension rarely slackens.
Seventeen-year-old narrator Gene dares not laugh or cry, or walk into the sunlight. If he did, his secret would be out, and he would be devoured by his neighbors and classmates--literally. Gene is the last heper--human--left in a world of vampire-like carnivores who consider hepers the greatest delicacy. Gene lost his mother and sister when he was too young to remember them. Then his father disappeared. Now Gene must...
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When I Left Home: My Story
by Buddy Guy with David Rich
The man who defined the sound of the Chicago blues and influenced a generation of rock guitarists shares his life story.
Summer Days & Balmy Nights: Simple Summer Food from Sun-drenched Shores
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A luminous, mouth-watering sojourn through the best cuisine the Mediterranean has to offer.
How to Cook Like a Man: A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession
by Daniel Duane
A memoir of one man's journey toward true manhood through both culinary mastery and fatherhood.
My Struggle: Book One
by Karl Ove Knausgaard, trans. by Don Bartlett
The first of a six-volume Norwegian epic laying out the author's life in hyper-realistic detail through a flashback-laced narrative piled thick with memories, laughter and anguish.
Cornbread Nation 6: The Best of Southern Food Writing
by Brett Anderson, editor
A new volume in a popular series about the distinct and influential food culture of the American South.
Trapeze
by Simon Mawer
A fact-based story of a female British agent working with the French Resistance to end World War II.
A Dog’s Journey
by W. Bruce Cameron
The sequel to A Dog’s Purpose reintroduces an uncommon canine trying to make sense of his life.
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
by Trenton Lee Stewart, illus. by Diana Sudyka
The thrilling tale of boy genius Nicholas Benedict, future founder of the Mysterious Benedict Society.
A Mind of Winter
by Shira Nayman
A vivid, sophisticated romance unfolding--in a complicated narrative structure--after the wreckage of the Second World War.
Media Heat
Monday, May 14, 2012
On NPR's Talk of the Nation: Deborah Davis, author of Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation (Atria, $26, 9781439169810).Thursday, May 10, 2012
On KCRW's Bookworm: Etgar Keret, author of Suddenly, A Knock on the Door, translated from the Hebrew by Nathan Englander, Miriam Schlesinger and Sondra Silverston (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $14, 9780374533335).On the Daily Show: Robert Caro, author of The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Knopf, $35, 9780679405078).
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
On NPR's Fresh Air: Gretchen Reynolds, author of The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can: Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer (Hudson Street Press, $25.95, 9781594630934).Tuesday, May 8, 2012
On NPR's Diane Rehm Show: Robert Caro, author of The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Knopf, $35, 9780679405078).On the Colbert Report: Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New Press, $19.95, 9781595586438).
Monday, May 7, 2012
On NPR's Diane Rehm Show: Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, authors of It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism (Basic, $26, 9780465031337).Also on Diane Rehm: Andrés Neuman, author of Traveler of the Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30, 9780374119393).
On the Colbert Report: Andy Cohen, author of Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture (Holt, $25, 9780805095838).
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