JANUARY 2007
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THE PEOPLE'S ACT OF LOVE
By James Meek
EXCELLENT/CLASSIC SELECTION
LITERARY-Humanity plays out against the dying days of the Russian revolution. (Mar/Apr 2006)
BECOMING STRANGERS
By Louise Dean
EXCELLENT SELECTION
LITERARY--Two very different couples meet at a Caribbean resort. (May/June 2006)
THE BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DEAD
By Kevin Brockmeier
EXCELLENT SELECTION
LITERARY--Only human memories sustain "The City," an idyllic place for the dead. (May/June 2006)
THE TIME OF THE UPROOTED
By Elie Wiesel
EXCELLENT
LITERARY--A Holocaust survivor's memories of the war--and the woman who saved him. (Nov/Dec 2005)
TIMOTHY; OR, NOTES OF AN ABJECT REPTILE
By Verlyn Klinkenborg
EXCELLENT
LITERARY--Eighteenth-century naturalist Gilbert White's tortoise tells her tale. (May/June 2006)
THE WHITE EARTH
By Andrew McGahan
EXCELLENT
LITERARY--An Australian boy living on an old sheep ranch deals with ghosts of the past. (Mar/Apr 2006)
A STRONG WEST WIND
A Memoir
By Gail Caldwell
EXCELLENT SELECTION
BIOGRAPHY--The Boston Globe critic asks how she became who she did. (May/June 2006)
AT CANAAN'S EDGE
America in the King Years, 1965-68
By Taylor Branch
EXCELLENT
BIOGRAPHY--The King-sized trilogy comes to a close. (Mar/Apr 2006)
GIRLS OF TENDER AGE
A Memoir
By Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
EXCELLENT
BIOGRAPHY--A woman recalls the murder of a childhood friend. (May/June 2006)
HERSHEY
Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams By Michael D'Antonio
EXCELLENT
BIOGRAPHY--Hershey's progressive capitalism and the magic chocolate kiss. (Mar/Apr 2006)
FEBRUARY 2007
GATE OF THE SUN
By Elias Khoury, translated by Humphrey Davies
EXCELLENT/CLASSIC SELECTION
LITERARY--A doctor tells "catastrophe" stories about the modern-day Palestinian experience. (May/June 2006)
IN THE COMPANY OF THE COURTESAN
By Sarah Dunant
EXCELLENT SELECTION
LITERARY--A courtesan struggles to the top in 16th-century Venice. (May/June 2006)
THE THIN PLACE
By Kathryn Davis
EXCELLENT SELECTION
LITERARY--A young New England girl brings a dead man back to life. (May/June 2006)
INTUITION
By Allegra Goodman
EXCELLENT
LITERARY--Did a postdoc researcher discover a cure for cancer--or is it all a hoax...
