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Barbara’s Recommends—you
read these books. What else can we say?
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Crime
Beat
A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers |
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By Michael
Connelly
Before
he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter,
covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida
and Los Angeles. In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads
the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators,
the victims, their families and friends—and, of course,
the killers—to tell the real stories of murder and its
aftermath.
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By Irène
Némirovsky, translation by Sandra Smith
In the early 1940s, when Irène Némirovsky began
SUITE
FRANÇAISE, she was already a successful writer.
She was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and sent
to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead, having completed
two parts of her epic, the handwritten manuscripts of which
were hidden in a suitcase that her daughters would take with
them into hiding. Sixty-four years later we can finally read
her masterpiece.
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The
Omnivore’s Dilemma
A Natural History of Four Meals |
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By Michael
Pollan
In the days
of hunter-gatherers, a wrong food choice could be one’s
last. Today, according Michael Pollan, we face comparable dangers
in the midst of plenitude, noting that America is experiencing
what can only be described as a national eating disorder. THE
OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA describes how parallel food
chains (industrialized, "organic", or home-gathered food) reflect
differences and similarities in our ecology of eating.
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The
Great Deluge
Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf
Coast |
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By Douglas
Brinkley
In THE
GREAT DELUGE, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley,
a New Orleans resident and professor of history at Tulane University,
rips the story of Katrina apart and relates what the category
3 hurricane was like from every point of view. "I have no doubt
that New Orleans will recover, in time, from Hurricane Katrina.
But America as a nation will never get over what happened."—Douglas
Brinkley |
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