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The
Language of
Baklava
Diana Abu-Jaber
Random House
Diana
Abu-Jaber's sensual memoir will make you hungry for
a life filled with food, family and
travel. Packed with her memories of growing up
in a Jordanian-American family that loves to cook,
it is very much like a picnic basket: funny
stories, tart recipes, nostalgia for places left
behind, all nestled neatly inside. The
Language of Baklava will make you long for
just one more bite.
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Hotel
Deep: Light Verse from Dark
Water
Kurt Cyrus
Harcourt
Children's
Do you wonder where sea
creatures sleep? Do you know all of the
secrets that they keep? Then check into Hotel
Deep: Light Verse from Dark Water and follow
Kurt Cyrus' poetic plunge into the hidden world of
the ocean. Lavish, colorful illustrations surround
twenty-one twisting, playful poems that chronicle a
lone sardine's search for its lost
school
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Rogue
River Journal: A Winter
Alone
John Daniel
Shoemaker &
Hoard
John Daniel has poured his
heart--and the soul of his father--into a powerful
memoir he wrote during a winter alone in the Oregon
wilderness. His experiment in solitude
resulted in a thoughtful, moving study of himself,
his family and the natural world. As beautifully
wrought as it is truthful, Rogue River Journal: A
Winter Alone is a Walden for our time.
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Daniel Speech
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The
Highest Tide
Jim
Lynch
Bloomsbury
Meet Miles O'Malley, a 13-year
old insomniac and Rachel Carson fanatic who roams
the tidal flats of Olympia, WA, turning up rare sea
life. When he discovers a giant squid, the
press, to his horror, deems him an unlikely
'messiah of the deep.' Jim Lynch's debut
novel, The Highest Tide, has captured the
turbulence of teen angst amidst the wonder of the
natural world.
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Approximately
Paradise
Floyd Skloot
Tupelo
Press
The poems collected in Floyd
Skloot's Approximately Paradise create a graceful
narrative that will be compelling to anyone--poetry
lover or not--who cares about love, loss, truth,
baseball, or the beauty of living in the moment.
You'll want to read these poems out loud with
someone you love.
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How Evan
Broke His Head and Other
Secrets
Garth Stein
Soho Press
Garth Stein has exposed a
sadness and a strength in Evan, a self-appointed
screw-up who endeavors to raise a 14-year-old son
he's just met. A raw but sympathetic portrayal of
family flaws and individual shortcomings, How Evan
Broke His Head and Other Secrets is a beautifully
un-shiny novel of passion, forgiveness and
the life force that is fatherhood.
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