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Bob Armstrong -- Night Table Recommendations

Wednesday, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:08am

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby (Penguin, 2009)

Let's start off with the obvious. I'm publishing a comic novel this fall (Dadolescence, Turnstone Press) about a pop-culture-obsessed middle-aged man who desperately needs to grow up and find a purpose. How could I not be a Nick Hornby fan? In his latest novel, he focuses on Annie, the wife of Duncan, a typically Hornbyesque music obsessive who treats an obscure 1980s rock album called Juliet with religious devotion. Like the rest of Hornby's books, it's funny, sad, hopeful, and honest.

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Bookclub suggestions

Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:54am

$19.95

Here are a few Bookclub suggestions, from our head buyer Chris Hall.
The Bells by Richard Harvell
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
The Girls by Lori Lansens
Mostly Happy by Pam Bustin
The Sea Captain's Wife, by Beth Powning
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skooot
In the Wake by Per Petterson
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Annabel by Kathleen Winter

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Highly Anticipated September Releases

Thursday, Sep 01, 2011 at 10:09am

Chris Hall is our Head Book Buyer. This is his list of most anticipated releases for September.

On Canaan's Side. Sebastian Barry's new book has been generating a lot of buzz in the UK and has been named to the Man Booker Prize Long List for 2011. His previous novels, Long Long Way and Secret Scripture have been under the radar yet steady sellers over the years. I suspect I'm not alone in anticipating his new work.

That Used to Be Us. Thomas Friedman has written what I think are the best two books to read if you want to understand our world as it is oday and how it got to be this way. The Lexus and the Olive Tree is a history of economics from about 1995 to 2000 and The World is Flat is a history of economics from about 2000 to 2005. I'm looking forward to this new book which attempts to explain how America got itself (and the world) into the mess it's in.

Winter. Adam Gopnick has been a McNally Robinson favourite ever since the release of his first book, Paris to the Moon, which details the adventures of his young family in Paris. Winter is this year's Massey Lecture and presents five different takes on winter. I think our appreciation of the coldest season can't help but be increased with the help of such a fine writer.

The Reinvention of Love. Helen Humphreys is back with a novel about the love story of Charles Sainte-Beauve and Adele Hugo, Victor's wife. Charles and Adele create a scandal in Paris until Victor exacts his revenge. This is a well told story of the clash of love, art, and ego.

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David Lester -- Night Table Recommendations

Wednesday, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:41am

Footnotes In Gaza by Joe Sacco (Metropolitan Books)

A truly remarkable accomplishment by graphic novelist Joe Sacco. It is hard to imagine how he will ever top the epic scale of this book. Footnotes in Gaza tells the long-forgotten story of the massacre of 111 Palestinians in Gaza in 1956 by Israeli soldiers. We follow Sacco as he searches for the truth from the remaining witnesses still alive. He sifts through their conflicting memories and uncovers what really happened on that terrible day. All the while, he must contend with Palestinians who just don't see the point in dredging up old history when what's happening now in Gaza is so much more important. But Sacco makes a compelling case as to why the past matters.

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Book of the Day, The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall.

Tuesday, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:46am

$19.99

The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall. The delightful, amusing and deeply mysterious follow-up to The Case of the Missing Servant (2009), featuring Vish Puri. When the goddess Kali appears from the mist at Dr. Suresh Jha's morning yoga class and plunges a sword into his chest, Vish Puri, head of Delhi's Most Private Investigators, is called in to investigate the bizarre murder. To get at the truth, Puri and his team of operatives must travel from Delhi's Shadipur slum to the holy city of Haridwar where they enter a world in which illusion and the supernatural are virtually indistinguishable.

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