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  Mariette in Ecstasy

  by Ron Hansen

  The highly acclaimed and provocatively rendered story of a young postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy.
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  Annie John

  by Jamaica Kincaid

  The author of a prize-winning collection of short stories, At the Bottom of the River, presents her first novel, about a girl growing up in Antigua and her ambivalent but inescapable relationship with her mother. Reprint. NYT.
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  Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation (Bradford Books)

  by David Brian Huron

  Winner, 2007 Wallace Berry Award presented by the Society for Music Theory. The psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of the author's experimental efforts to understand how music evokes emotions. These efforts evolved into a general theory of expectation that will prove informative to readers interested in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology... (more)