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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"This is a captivating, riveting book—a must-read not only for medical professionals, anthropologists, and journalists, but for anyone interested in how to negotiate cultural difference in a shrinking world. Fadiman's ability to empathize with the resolutely independent Hmong as well as with the remarkable doctors, caseworkers, and officials of Merced County makes her narrative both richly textured and deeply illuminating. Sometimes the stakes here are multicultural harmony and understanding; sometimes they're literally life and death—whether in wartime Laos or in American emergency rooms. But whatever the stakes and wherever the setting, Fadiman's reporting is meticulous, and her prose is a delight. From start to finish, a truly impressive achievement."—Michael Bérubé, author of Life As We Know It

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Boston Book Review - Winner - Nonfiction
L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner - Current Interest
National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - General Nonfiction

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The World Is Flat 3.0

A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Thomas L. Friedman Picador

Updated and Expanded Edition

"The World Is Flat continues the franchise Friedman has made for himself as a great explicator of and cheerleader for globalization, building upon his 1999 The Lexus and the Olive Tree. Like its predecessor, this book showcases Friedman's gift for lucid dissections of abstruse economic phenomena, his teacher's head, his preacher's heart, his genius for trend-spotting . . . [This book] also shares some of the earlier volume's excitement (mirroring Rajesh Rao's) and hesitations about whether we're still living in an era dominated by old-fashioned states or in a postmodern, globalized era where states matter far less and the principal engine of change is a leveled playing field for international trade."—Warren Bass, The Washington Post

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Audie Award Winner - Nonfiction-Unabridged

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The 9/11 Report

A Graphic Adaptation

Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón; Foreword by Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton Hill and Wang

"The 130-page 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation . . . arguably places the attacks in context better than any nonpictorial book could, or any film or television show has done so far. And in the simple visual retelling of the written report's results, it carries a profound emotional impact that is disarming . . . Perhaps most important, the 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation takes a document that is more than 500 pages long and often difficult to penetrate and makes it accessible to a much wider audience—tightening the narrative and increasing the spectacle without the fictionalization . . . The finished product is so solid that Sept. 11 commission Chairman Thomas Kean went from skepticism about a Sept. 11 report comic book to writing the foreword."—Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

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Night

Elie Wiesel; A New Translation by Marion Wiesel; With a New Preface by the Author Hill and Wang

“To the best of my knowledge no one has left behind so moving a record.” —Alfred Kazin

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This I Believe

The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women

Jay Allison and Dan Gediman, eds. Holt Paperbacks

"To hold this range of beliefs in the palm of your hand is as fine, as grounding, as it was hearing them first on the radio. Heartfelt, deeply cherished beliefs, doctrines for living (yet none of them doctrinaire). Ideas and ideals that nourish. You can see it in their faces, in the photos in this book. And read it in their words. I'm so proud that NPR helped carry this Edward R. Murrow tradition into a new century. And so glad to have it in print, to encounter again and again."—Susan Stamberg, special correspondent, National Public Radio

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A Long Way Gone

Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah Sarah Crichton Books

"What is it about African wars that is so disturbing? Why do they unsettle us so? . . . The great benefit of Ishmael Beah's memoir, A Long Way Gone, is that it may help us arrive at an understanding of this situation. Beah's autobiography is almost unique, as far as I can determine—perhaps the first time that a child soldier has been able to give literary voice to one of the most distressing phenomena of the late 20th century: the rise of the pubescent (or even prepubescent) warrior-killer . . . A Long Way Gone is his first, remarkable book. . . . Beah's memoir joins an elite class of writing: Africans witnessing African wars . . . A Long Way Gone makes you wonder how anyone comes through such unrelenting ghastliness and horror with his humanity and sanity intact. Unusually, the smiling, open face of the author on the book jacket provides welcome and timely reassurance. Ishmael Beah seems to prove it can happen."—William Boyd, The New York Times Book Review

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Middlesex

A Novel

Jeffrey Eugenides Picador

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"A towering achievement . . . A story that manages to be both illuminating and transcendent . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer many of us suspected him of being."—Jeff Turrentine, Los Angeles Times Book Review

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ALA Stonewall Book Award - Honor Book - Literature
Audie Award Winner - Fiction-Unabridged
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee - Fiction
National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee - Fiction
Ambassador Book Award - Winner - Fiction
Lambda Literary Award - Nominee - Transgender
Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Fiction
Great Lakes Book Award - Winner - Winner - Fiction

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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Political theorists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt show how the right to the pursuit of happiness presently enables foreign governments to exert adverse influence over foreign-policy questions of war and peace simply by coordinating the expression of private citizens' ostensible self-interest. Public-choice scholars and other curious individuals will relish the analysis and insights presented in The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy."—James A. Montanye, The Independent Review

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