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Cormac McCarthy’s first book since the conclusion of his highly acclaimed Border Trilogy seven years ago returns to the rugged frontier of far West Texas. It’s a mythical landscape whose desolate timelessness cannot, however, forestall an unrelentingly changing world.
by Jay Trachtenberg
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‘Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America’ knits familia y raza together into a deceptively simple, if unspoken, universal truth with all the homespun efficacy of Rose Guilbault’s maternal brood spinning ghost stories in a Yaqui Indian adobe near Nogales, Mexico, where the author was born
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Guy Deutscher, with his always slightly amused tone, manages to turn this ambitiously comprehensive, globe-trotting book into a great layman’s read without sacrificing the integrity of the material
by Nora Ankrum
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In this summer of rising oil prices, school finance woes, and escalating bloodshed in Middle Eastern war zones, nothing says getaway like a visit to the home of an obscure 19th-century presidential assassin, right?
by Robert Faires
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‘The Road to Esmeralda’ is, in some basic senses, a political thriller. However, it’s also the story of mind-blowingly pretentious, self-indulgently self-loathing, overprivileged, and underclever yuppies.
by Jess Sauer
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Luis Rodriguez’s insider knowledge of East L.A. gang life has produced several well-received books of poetry, prose, and nonfiction. With his new novel, he shifts to a broader, but no less gritty, examination of labor culture and activism within the walls of the Nazareth Steel Mill.
by Belinda Acosta
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As almost no one on this side of the pond gives a rat’s ass about Naim Attallah, Erdal’s account of their relationship in Ghosting allows American readers to appreciate their story for what it really is: how two misfits in British society negotiate space for themselves through the written word
by Melanie Haupt
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Told in the cracks between bicoastal flashbacks and Nineties real time by Hayward Theiss, a twentysomething working in television, it’s the story of someone who can only move forward by retracing his steps and fulfilling – or conquering – his need to go back. Sam Brumbaugh will be at BookPeople on April 29.
by Shawn Badgley

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