George Newbern
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Best Book of the Year: NPR, Shelf Awareness
"I didn't know how much I needed a laugh until I began reading Stephen McCauley's new novel, My Ex-Life. This is the kind of witty, sparkling, sharp novel for which the verb 'chortle' was invented." —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air
"McCauley fits neatly alongside Tom Perrotta and Maria Semple in the category of 'Novelists You'd Most
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"In 1870s Texas, Ranger Leander McNelly led his men in one campaign after another, throwing dangerous criminals into jail or six feet under. They would stop at nothing in pursuit of justice, even sending twenty-six Rangers across the border to retrieve stolen cattle, taking on Mexican troops with nothing but their Sharps rifles and six-guns. The nation came to call them "McNelly's Rangers." Set against the backdrop of 200 years of thrilling Texas...
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"After losing his family in a tsunami in Brisbane, Australia, former police officer Frank Mercy rescues Ian from a submerged car and takes him home to his Midwestern farm. As the boy exhibits a telepathic gift, Frank and new love Claudia will travel to England to keep him safe from a sinister group who want him back"--
5) The short and tragic life of Robert Peace: a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League
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On arriving at Yale, Jeff Hobbs became fast friends with the man who would be his roommate for four years. Robert Peace's life had been rough, living in poverty with his mother in 1980s Newark, his father in jail. But he was a brilliant student, and it was supposed to get easier. It didn't. In an honest rendering of Robert's relationships in two fiercely insular worlds, Hobbs encompasses the most enduring conflicts in America. (Bestseller)
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Jonathan Cott's story begins one day in 1968 when he went to interview John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their London flat. Later that evening Lennon invited Cott - then the London correspondent for fledgling music magazine Rolling Stone - to sit in on a recording session at Abbey Road Studios. From this professional introduction a friendship was born - one that continued even as Lennon and Ono moved to New York. It was Cott who interviewed the couple on...