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Microcosm_ E. Coli and the New - Carl Zimmer
From Publishers WeeklyWhen most readers hear the words E. coli, they think tainted hamburger or toxic spinach. Noted science writer Zimmer says there are in fact many different st.... -
Men and Cartoons - Jonathan Lethem
Review"A strikingly original collection . . . imaginative, insightful, witty and sad." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"An already dazzling writer shows us a new card. . . . -
Matchless_ A Christmas Story - Gregory Maguire
SUMMARY: Every year, NPR asks a writer to compose an original story with a Christmas theme. In 2008, Gregory Maguire reinvented the Hans Christian Andersen classic "The Little Matc... -
Lost Boys - Orson Scott Card
A withdrawn eight-year-old in a troubled family invents imaginary friends who bear the names of missing children in this absorbing thriller. Science fiction writer Card ( Abyss , P... -
Loser's Town - Daniel Depp
From Publishers WeeklyScreenwriter Depp's inspired if uneven debut, the first in a new crime series, introduces Hollywood PI David Spandau, a former stunt man too old and beat up t... -
Look at the birdie_ unpublished - Kurt Vonnegut
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Look at the Birdie** is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this ... -
Long for This World_ The Strang - Jonathan Weiner
SUMMARY: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Jonathan Weiner comes a fast-paced and astonishing scientific adventure story: has the long-sought secret of eternal youth a... -
London Bridges - James Patterson
From Publishers WeeklyAny thriller writer, wannabe or actual, would do well to study Patterson's 10th Alex Cross novel. A sequel to last year's The Big Bad Wolf, the book is ... -
Live From New York - James H. Miller; Tom Shales
WHEN A YOUNG WRITER named Lorne Michaels talked NBC executives into taking a chance on a new weekend late-night comedy series, nobody really knew what to expect-not even Michaels. ... -
Literary Occasions_ Essays - V. S. Naipaul; Pankaj Mishra
From Publishers WeeklyOne imagines many readers are still absorbing The Writer and the World, Naipaul's magisterial collection of deeply opinionated global political reports and cu...