Reviews, articles and excerpts of exceptional debut books and debut novels
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Cane River
by Lalita Tademy
Hardcover: Apr 2001
Paperback: Apr 2002
An epic novel of four generations of African-American women based on one family's meticulously researched past.
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The Muse Asylum
by David Czuchlewski
Hardcover: May 2001
Paperback: Apr 2002
Part love story and part journey into the psychology of genius, The Muse Asylum is a tale of stunning reversals and reflections in a world where things are never quite what they seem.
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The Unwanted
by Kien Nguyen
Hardcover: Mar 2001
Paperback: Apr 2002
The biography of an Amerasian child in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. A wonderful book - highly recommended. "He writes with a voice of innocence that takes us into the heart and spirit of one person's undeserved and tragic childhood." USA ...
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
by Terry Ryan
Hardcover: Apr 2001
Paperback: Apr 2002
Introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay, and her 10 children fed and clothed, with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Winterkill
by Karen Wunderman
Paperback: Mar 2002
For ten years, Ben Dalton has been fighting to keep his past a secret, but he's about to crash headlong into one of life's immutable truths: No matter how hard he runs, no matter how hard he tries, he can't outrun his past. And when it ...
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Gob's Grief
by Chris Adrian
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: Mar 2002
Both convincing in its portrayal of the collective madness America went through after the carnage of the Civil War, and otherworldly in its contemplation of obsessive grief and longing, Gob's Grief is at once an announcement of a major talent, ...
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Cloud Sketcher
by Richard Rayner
Hardcover: Feb 2001
Paperback: Mar 2002
A transforming journey into the heart of beauty and the peril of love, a romantic, lyrical epic that resurrects history with great authenticity and drama.
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Fortune In Your Cookies: Finding Financial Wisdom in Everyday Eating
by Meena Cheng
Hardcover: Mar 2002
Combines the sensuality found in food with the stoic subject of money, creating a uniquely enchanting and informative personal finance book that can be described as Chocolat meets Wall Street.
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Lick Creek
by Brad Kessler
Hardcover: Mar 2001
Paperback: Mar 2002
Set in the remote mining country of West Virginia in the late twenties, Lick Creek is the compelling story of a fiery young woman, Emily Jenkins, and what happens when progress -- and tragedy -- comes to her family's farm.
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These Granite Islands
by Sarah Stonich
Hardcover: Mar 2001
Paperback: Mar 2002
An intimate story of friendship, a portrait of marriage, and a glimpse into the depths of loss - set in 1930's USA.
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Forty Words For Sorrow
by Giles Blunt
Hardcover: Jun 2001
Paperback: Mar 2002
Superbly paced, with fully fleshed characters and utterly convincing police detail. "Blunt has done for Canada's north what James Lee Burke did for Cajun Louisiana."
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The Gardens of Kyoto: A Novel
by Kate Walbert
Hardcover: Apr 2001
Paperback: Mar 2002
Spins several parallel stories about the emotional damage done by war. Like the mysterious arrangements of intricate sand, rock, and gravel found in the Kyoto Gardens, the stories gracefully come together in a single, rich mosaic.
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My Dream of You
by Nuala O'Faolain
Hardcover: Feb 2001
Paperback: Feb 2002
A captivating work that explores the extremes of passion, the depths of loneliness, and the resilience of the human heart. By the author of the number-one New York Times bestseller Are You Somebody?
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of The All American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: Jan 2002
A groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats.
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Feeling Sorry For Celia
by Jaclyn Moriarty
Hardcover: Feb 2001
Paperback: Jan 2002
A funny, touching, revealing story written entirely in the form of letters, messages, postcards - and bizarre missives. Hilariously candid, shows that the roller coaster ride of being a teenager is every bit as fun as we remember--and every bit as ...
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The Death of Vishnu: A Novel
by Manil Suri
Hardcover: Dec 2000
Paperback: Jan 2002
Suffused with Hindu mythology, this story of one apartment building becomes a metaphor for the social and religious divisions of contemporary India. "Vibrantly alive, beautifully written, full of wonderfully rich and deeply human characters
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Horses Don't Fly
by Frederick Libby
Hardcover: Aug 2000
Paperback: Jan 2002
Here in his own words is the true story of a forgotten American hero: the cowboy who became our first ace and the first pilot to fly the American colors over enemy lines.
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The Man Who Ate The 747
by Ben Sherwood
Hardcover: Aug 2000
Paperback: Jan 2002
Piece by piece, a farmer is eating a Boeing 747 to prove his love for a woman... Written with tenderness, originality, and insight, filled with old-fashioned warmth and newfangled humor, it is an extraordinary novel, a found treasure that marks the ...
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River Town
by Peter Hessler
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: Dec 2001
An unforgettable portrait of a city that, much like China itself, is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be. "Tender, intelligent, and insightful, [this] is the work of a writer of rare talent; it deserves to become a ...
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Finding Fish
by Antwone Quenton Fisher
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: Dec 2001
The memoir of Antwone Fisher's miraculous journey from abandonment and abuse to liberation, manhood, and extraordinary success. "A striking and original story of the journey from troubled childhood to self-aware adult."
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