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Barbara’s Recommends...
a few delights for cool, fall days
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The
Washington Story
A Novel |
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By Adam
Langer
More
than a year and a half has passed since Jill Wasserstrom tried
to catch up to Muley Wills in West Rogers Park. Now, they are
high school students in love, but will their relationship survive
as their world expands beyond the boundaries of West Rogers
Park? Over the course of five years—from 1982 to 1987—Jill,
Muley, and their families and friends will experience love,
betrayal, reunions, sex, death, and rebirth.
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Bait
and Switch
The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream |
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By
Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich’s
Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers.
Now she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy
world of white-collar unemployment highlighting the people who’ve
done everything right yet are still vulnerable to financial
disaster. Today’s ultra-lean corporations take pride in
shedding their “surplus” employees—plunging
them into a twilight zone where job searching itself becomes
a full-time job. As Ehrenreich finds, there are few supports
for these disposable workers—and little security even
for those who have jobs.
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By
Neil Gaiman
When Fat Charlie’s
dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie “Fat
Charlie.” Even now Charlie can’t shake that name,
one of the many embarrassing “gifts” his father
bestowed—before dropping dead on a karaoke stage and ruining
Fat Charlie’s life. Because Charlie’s dad wasn’t
just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god.
And now he has left Fat Charlie things. Like the tall good-looking
the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie
as night is to day, a brother who’s going to show Charlie
how to lighten up and have a little fun . . . just like Dear
Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting
for Fat Charlie.
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A
Field Guide to Getting Lost |
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By Rebecca
Solnit
Rebecca Solnit’s
new book is about losing oneself in the pleasures of an experience,
about wandering and being lost, as well as about the uses of
the unknown. While deeply personal, her own stories link up
to larger stories, from the captivity narratives of early Americans
to the use of the color blue in Renaissance painting, not to
mention encounters with tortoises, monks, punk rockers, mountains,
deserts, and the movie Vertigo. The result is a distinctive
voyage of discovery.
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