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by Jane Smiley
Published May 2004
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by Jonathan Franzen
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsThe Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed.
by Jane Heller
Published Feb 2002
Read ReviewsFemale Intelligence is a hilarious look at our inability to bridge the communication gap between men and women, despite all the Mars/Venus books on the market.
by Tom Wolfe
Published Oct 1999
Read ReviewsA pitch-perfect coast-to-coast portrait of our wild and woolly, no-holds-barred, multifarious country on the cusp of the millennium.
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