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Barbara’s Recommends
you read these books—they are good for what ails you...
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By Kevin
Baker
Kevin Baker’s
third great book of New York City takes us to the Harlem of
the 1940s. A place of contradictions—jumping dancehalls
and miserable flophouses, glamour and poverty, Harlem is a tinderbox
waiting for a match. Even if you aren’t familiar Baker’s
first two, brilliant novels (Dreamland, Paradise
Alley) you owe it to yourself to read Strivers
Row.
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The
Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
A Novel |
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By Dominic
Smith
In this luminous
debut novel, Dominic Smith reinvents the life of one of photography’s
founding fathers. Louis Daguerre’s story is set against the
backdrop of a Paris prone to bohemian excess and social unrest.
Poets and dandies debate art and style in the cafés while
students and rebels fill the garrets with revolutionary talk
and gun smoke.
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Rip
It Up and Start Again
Postpunk 1978-1984 |
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By Simon
Reynolds
Rip
It Up and Start Again is an exploration of the adventurous
years after punk, celebrating the futurist spirit of bands like
Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted
in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance. Full of
insight and anecdote, Rip
It Up and Start Again is the story of one of the most
challenging periods in popular music.
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The
Film Snob*s Dictionary
An Essential Lexicon of Filmological Knowledge |
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By David
Kamp and Lawrence Levi, Illustrated by Ross MacDonald
No longer must
you suffer as a clerk in a “Todd Browning’s Freaks”
T-shirt bombards you with baffling allusions to “wire-fu”
pictures, “Todd-AO process,” and “Sam Raimi.”
From the same brain trust that brought you The Rock Snob*s
Dictionary, comes The
Film Snob*s Dictionary, your fail-safe companion in
the video store, the cineplex, or wherever insufferable Film
Snobs congregate. |
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Owen
& Mzee
The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship |
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By Isabella
Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, and Dr. Paula Kahumbu, with photographs
by Peter Greste
The 2004 tsunami
orphaned thousands of humans and animals. Among them was Owen,
a baby hippo stranded in Kenya. In the aftermath of the storm,
villagers watched amazed as the lonely hippo was adopted by
Mzee, a 130-year-old tortoise. These “tsunami friends”
became inseparable buddies, swimming, eating, and playing together.
This picture book pays tribute to an unlikely animal alliance
and a friendship that transcends species.
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