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CONCISE HISTORY OF HIP HOP
by Paul Edwards
This book presents an overarching view of hip hop, looking at how it differs from other types of music, who the key figures are, as well as landmark events, songs, and albums.
AMERICAN FAMILY VERITE: Our 30-Year Journey with the Louds
by Susan and Alan Raymond
Nobody who watched the fascinating 1973 PBS 12-hour documentary series about the Loud family of Santa Barbara has ever forgotten it: the intimately filmed family squabbles, the very public "coming out" of their gay son Lance, and the eventual divorce. Now the Raymonds, Oscar and Grammy award-winning documentary film makers, offer their no-holds-barred account of what went on behind the scenes, then and later, and how the series gave birth to what we now call reality TV. In April 2011 HBO aired a star-studded movie based on the family, called CINEMA VERITE, in July 2011 PBS aired a two-hour condensation of the original series, which was also released on DVD. Next year PBS will re-release the entire series for their 40th anniversary broadcast.
THE LAST TRAIN
by Michael Pronko
A gripping crime novel in which a Tokyo detective and his colleagues hunt down a mysterious woman who has been pushing Western and Japanese businessmen in front of fast-moving underground trains. The woman herself, out to avenge past wrongs, is an amazing creation, and the whole book has a noir cinematic feel, with contemporary Tokyo itself as a dazzling backdrop.
LOVE'S ALCHEMY: A Novel of John Donne
by Bryan Crockett
Crockett, a professor with a passion for Elizabethan literature, has taken the great English poet and contemporary of Shakespeare and brought him to life in all his passion, anguish and boldness, in a beautifully imagined fictional setting.With a headlong plot involving the struggles between Protestant and Catholic, the conflict between married love and illicit sex, and winding up in a climax set around the Gunpowder Plot, it dares--and succeeds-- in treating the poet as an action hero, even if a tormented one.
ELABORATE PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE
by Cary Groner
From the author of EXILES (Spiegel & Grau/Random House, June 2011), a strikingly versatile collection of widely-published, prize-winning stories focusing on women's experiences in different parts of the world. A select list of awards include the 2009 Hackney Short Story Competition, 2008 Glimmer Train's fiction open, and the 2010 American Fiction prize.
COMPADRES
by Michael Spurgeon
A young American mourning the accidental death of his wife and baby daughter accepts the invitation of a wealthy Mexican college chum to join him in remote, rural Chiapas in this striking debut novel about the fatal and bloody clash of neighboring cultures. Soon, what had seemed to Hank Singer like an ideal friendship turns murderous amid the stresses of the Zapatista revolution that tore Chiapas apart 15 years ago.
LIVING TREASURES
by Yang Huang
A young Chinese university student, inspired by the revolutionary fervor that led to the demonstrations in Tianamen Square, makes a personal sacrifice on behalf of a woman being persecuted by the one-child-per-family law.
GUTENBERG’S APPRENTICE
by Alix Christie
The first printed Bible in 1454 revolutionized the world of learning and made mass-produced books possible. Johannes Gutenberg is usually credited with this invention, but Christie's compelling debut novel, based on extensive research, tells the true story: the Bible was as much the accomplishment of its namesake as of his extraordinary assistant, Peter Schoeffer. It is set in a medieval world strikingly like our own, which is also threatened by financial chaos, incursions from the Muslim East, clashes between Church and state, and by a new digital technology completely altering the transmission of information as we know it.
YOU'D BE CRAZY NOT TO LOVE IT HERE: STORIES
by Michael Schiavone
The author of “Call Me When You Land” began as a short story writer, and this dazzling collection shows his antic imagination at its height. Alternately wildly funny and achingly melancholy—sometimes both at once—these stories (which have appeared in Glimmer Train, The Mississippi Review, and numerous other magazines) embrace a virtuosic variety of characters and settings. All they have in common are huge readability and the knack of constant surprise.
