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  The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

  by Oscar Hijuelos

  It's 1949, the era of the mambo, and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to New York. The Castillo brothers, workers by day, become, by night, stars of the dance halls, where their orchestra plays the sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of the Mambo Kings. This is a golden time that thirty years later will be remembered with deep affection. In The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love ,... (more)
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  Joseph and His Brothers

  by Thomas Mann, John Woods

  (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner’s great masterpiece is a major literary event. Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts–The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider–as a unified narrative, a “mythological novel” of Joseph’s fall into... (more)
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  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

  by Muriel Spark

  The elegantly styled classic story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special — and ultimately dangerous — relationship with six of her students.
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  Utrillo's Mother

  by Sarah Baylis

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  Just Kids

  by Patti Smith

  It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to 42nd Street, and... (more)
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  The Orphan Master's Son

  by Adam Johnson

  An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is given his first... (more)
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  Season of the Witch

  Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love

  by David Talbot

  San Francisco was the cradle of the 1960s, but also its coffin, giving rise to the Zebra and Zodiac killers, Altamont, the Jonestown horror, the assassination of Harvey Milk, and the devastating AIDS epidemic. And yet San Francisco not only rose from the wreckage of the 1970s, but developed a live-and-let-live tolerance that influenced the entire country. Bestselling author David Talbot, a former journalist at the... (more)