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  Angela's Ashes

  A Memoir

  by Frank McCourt

  "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and... (more)
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  Insular Possession

  by Timothy Mo

  In the early 1800s, the Chinese Empire became a reluctant host to a variety of Canton-based Occidental trading companies, eager to relieve it of tea and silver. In exchange, England soothed the Chinese with vast quantities of Indian opium, a practice much deplored but soon to be emulated by their American competitors. In Mo's third novel (after The Monkey King and Sour Sweet, two young Americans, Walter Eastman... (more)
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  Genet: A Biography (Vintage)

  by Edmund White

  This biography of Genet explores the perverse extremes of his life and writing, and separated the fact from the mythology which was fostered by Genet himself. Edmund White has interviewed lovers, friends, publishers and acquaintances, and has drawn from material, from letters (a number published here for the first time) and other original sources.
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  The Old Patagonian Express

  By Train Through the Americas

  by Paul Theroux

  Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds up on the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, which comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes. But with Theroux the view along the way is what matters: the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest of Cali, and the blind Jorge Luis... (more)
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  Mona in the Promised Land

  by Gish Jen

  In this ebullient and inventive novel, Gish Jen restores multiculturalism from high concept to a fact of life. At least that's what it becomes for teenaged Mona Chang, who in 1968 moves with her newly prosperous family to Scarshill, New York, where the Chinese have become "the new Jews." What could be more natural than for Mona to take this literally--even to the point of converting? As Mona attends temple "rap"... (more)
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  TALES FROM A BROAD: AN UNRELIABLE MEMOIR.

  by Fran. Lebowitz

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  All broken up and dancing

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  History of Anglosaxons (Senate Paperbacks)

  by Francis Palgrave

  HISTORY OF ENGLAND. ANGLO-SA4S8AT PERIOD. A-EARL Y READY FOR PLV3LICATIO, V, THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE ENGLISH COhTMONWEhLTH ANGLO-SASON PERIOD. -- THE volume which I have now the satisfaction of transmitting and inscribing to you, as a sincere thou