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March 6, 2006
Any chance you have time to squeeze in a good book before your class load gets too heavy? Well, here are some new titles on the Relax & Read shelf that may entice you.
Fiction
The Sea by John Banville
2005 Winner of the Man Booker Prize
A middle-aged Irishman returns to his childhood summer seaside town to retreat from the grief of his wife's death. He meets a wealthy vacationing family and forms sudden strange bonds of both love and death.
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
2005 Winner of the National Book Award
A mesmerizing series of intertwined stories that compare and contrast the moral decisions made by a variety of figures associated with the warring authoritarian cultures of Germany and the Soviet Union in the 20th century.
The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon
The Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay now turns to Sherlock Holmes. It is 1944 and Holmes has retired to the countryside where a mute boy appears with a parrot that recites strings of numbers in German. When he suspects that the parrot holds the key to Nazi secrets, Holmes comes out of retirement.
Also new to the shelves:
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Mary Mary by James Patterson
Short Stories
Runaway by Alice Munro
How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
Selected Stores of Patricia Highsmith
Non-Fiction
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
by Piers Vitebsky
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