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November 09, 2009
Austen in a New Light
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November 05, 2009
The Emperor of the United States
Patty of the Fiction/AV/Teen Department recommends Norton I, The Emperor of the United States by William Drury:
In 1859, Joshua Abraham Norton audaciously declared himself “the Emperor of these here United States” and the “Protector of Mexico.” Emperor Norton walked the roads of San Francisco with an elaborate blue uniform, a sword, and perched on his curly hair was a beaver hat with a crooked peacock feather. Currency was printed with his likeness on it that was accepted at local establishments. Emperor Norton ordered decrees on a regular basis (though Congress and the U.S. Army consistently ignored them) and Mark Twain, Neil Gaiman and Robert Louis Stevenson have all based characters on him. In Norton I, William Drury examines the life of a loveably odd man who caused 30,000 people to flood the streets when he died.
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November 02, 2009
In a Galaxy Beyond Narnia
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October 29, 2009
Outsider Architecture
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October 26, 2009
Two Roads Converge
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October 22, 2009
A Laudation of H.P. Lovecraft
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October 19, 2009
How to Be Wealthy and Wise
Here’s a premise for a book: Take a random walk among America’s wealthiest neighborhoods, knock on the doors of millionaires, and ask those strangers about their personal finances. What do you think will happen?
It may sound like a misguided prank, but who better to give advice on making money than those who are most successful? It’s an idea both absurd and brilliant, and (lucky for us) it worked! Armed with only paper and pen, journalist Ryan D’Agostino approached 500 doors and interviewed 50 willing participants, including a man in suburban Chicago who made his fortune peeling shrimp. In Rich Like Them: My Door-to-Door Search for the Secrets of Wealth in America’s Richest Neighborhoods, he compiles the wisdom that was shared in an engaging and easy-to-read narrative. You don’t have to be born with a special gene for success. You need only benefit from a good long walk.
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October 16, 2009
Question Sleep
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October 12, 2009
Nobel Literature and Booker Prizes Announced
What a week for literature! Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, a meaty novel set during the reign of Henry VIII, has just been named the winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize for 2009. When the king decides he wants a divorce so he might marry Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell becomes one of his most influential advisors. Not just for history buffs, Wolf Hall will celebrate its U.S. release on October 13.
Also announced was the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. Herta Müller “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed,” writes of the oppression of dictatorship and the life of the political exile. The Land of Green Plums and The Appointment are two titles available in English translation.
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October 08, 2009
Who Will Survive?
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