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2007
TITLES:
David
Andelman
A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today
Veteran correspondent David Andelman offers a
compelling new perspective on the origin of many of today's most critical
international issues. He turns the spotlight on the many errors committed by
World War I peacemakers that ultimately led to crises from Iraq to Kosovo
and wars from the Middle East to Vietnam. He focuses, too, on the small
nations and minor players at Versailles, including figures such as Ho Chi
Minh and Charles de Gaulle, who would later become boldfaced names. With a
cautionary message for us today, he shows how world leaders dismissed
repeated warnings from their experts and laid the groundwork for a host of
catastrophic events.
Ben Barber
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow
Citizens Whole From Publishers Weekly: “Barber
returns to the clashing models of civilization of his earlier Jihad vs.
McWorld, focusing this time on the expanding global culture of market
forces he claims will destory not only democracy but even capitalism, if
left unchecked. He warns of a totalitarian ‘ethos of induced childishness’
that not only seeks to turn the young into aggressive consumers but to
arrest the psychological development of adults as well, ‘freeing’ them to
indulge in puerile and narcissistic purchases based on ‘stupid’ brand
loyalties.”
Louise Bernikow
Dreaming in Libro: How a Good Dog Tamed a Bad Woman
The sequel to "Bark If You Love Me," this is the story of a Boxer rescued in
Riverside Park and his owner. Shadow and I met Louise and Libro on Riverside
Drive not long after Shadow came into my life, and Louise and I think that
Libro had a crush on Shadow. Unfortunately, Shadow preferred the real alpha
boys, but at least she was polite to Libro.
Ian Bremmer
The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall.
(now in paperback) Publishers Weekly says:
"With this timely book, political risk consultant Bremmer aims to 'describe
the political and economic forces that revitalize some states and push
others toward collapse.' His simple premise is that if one were to graph a
nation's stability as a function of its openness, the result would be a 'J
curve,' suggesting that as nations become more open, they become less stable
until they eventually surpass their initial levels of stability."
Edwidge Danticat
Brother, I'm Dying
A memoir centered on the lives of her Haitian father
–who brought Edwidge Danticat to America- and her uncle –who stayed in Haiti
most of his life only to die in a Miami detention center after seeking
asylum and being denied access to his medicine.
Junot Diaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Funny, street-smart and
keenly observed.... An extraordinarily vibrant book that's fueled by
adrenaline-powered prose.... A book that decisively establishes [D’az] as
one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive and irresistible new voices."
-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Pamela Druckerman
Lust in Translation
An irreverent and
hilarious journey around the world to examine how and why people cheat on
their spouses; this global look at infidelity reveals that Americans are
uniquely mixed up about being faithful. Russian husbands and wives don't
believe that beach-resort flings violate their marital vows. Japanese
businessmen, armed with the aphorism "If you pay, it's not cheating," flock
to sex clubs where the extramarital services on offer include "getting oral
sex without showering first." In South Africa, pollsters had to create
separate categories for men who cheat, and men who only cheat while drunk.
Sharon Epperson
The Big Payoff: 8 Steps Couples Can Take to Make the Most of Their
Money--and Live Richly Ever After
Middle-class couples are working
harder than ever. So why are they finding it more difficult to finance their
homes, send their kids to college, and save toward retirement? Couples who
are strapped for time and weighed down by costly fixed expenses need more
than a personal finance pep talk: They need a plan. In The Big Payoff, CNBC
correspondent Sharon Epperson lays out a nuts-and-bolts program that couples
of all ages can use to realize their financial dreams.
April Lamm (Author), Stephan Heidenreich (Author),
Eckhart Nickel
Anonym, In The Future No One Will Be Famous
This exhibition catalog asks: What happens at an exhibition when none of the
participating artists are named? Or the curator remains anonymous? Or the
artworks liberate themselves from the question of authorship? Readers can
sharpen their wits and ponder ideas about copyright, authorship, selection
of works for institutions, the art market and the financial well-being of
artists themselves.
Paul Hockenos
Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic:
An Alternative History of Postwar Germany
Throughout his controversial career in German politics, Joschka Fischer
gained a reputation as a shrewd and visionary politician. In the 1980s he
was one of the first elected Greens and went on to become Germany's foreign
minister from 1998 to 2005. His famous challenge to Donald Rumsfeld's case
for invading Iraq--"Excuse me, I am not convinced"--won him worldwide
recognition, and the Bush administration's contempt. Here is both a lively
biography of Joschka Fischer and a gripping history 'from below' of postwar
Germany.
Aziz Huq and Frederick Schwartz
Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror puts
today’s abuses of presidential power in historical perspective and delivers
the definite rebuke to the idea of a “monarchical executive.” Drawing on
Fritz Schwarz’s experience with the Church Committee, it argues that
restoring the Checks and Balances of American government will make us both
safer and freer, and tells us how we can do that. Check
out
Bob Herbert’s glowing op-ed column in the NY Times about this important
book.
Mira Kamdar
Planet India: How the Fastest Growing Democracy Is Transforming America and
the World Interviewing a wide range of
people, from Bollywood movie producers to indebted farmers committing
suicide to tea merchants and U.S. software engineers working in India, Mira
gives the flavor of India today, tells how it got there, and gives a sense
of where it is going along with what its decisions will mean for the entire
planet. Mira is not afraid to break taboos, and she addresses both the
tremendous optimism and potential in India as well as the Herculean
challenges that the country faces.
Zachary Karabell
Peace Be upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence
Booklist starred review: “Historians have so often
focused on religious conflict--crusades, jihads, pogroms--that Karabell
fears many readers have forgotten how often the devout have lived in peace
with those of different faiths. To dispel this unfortunate forgetfulness, he
develops a wide-ranging narrative highlighting epochs of interfaith
toleration and cooperation.”
Nina Khrushcheva
Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics
Vladimir Nabokov's "Western choice"—his exile to the West after the 1917
Bolshevik Revolution—allowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving
the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the
extreme openness of twentieth-century America. In Imagining Nabokov:
Russia Between Art and Politics, Nina L. Khrushcheva offers the novel
hypothesis that because of this journey, the works of
Russian-turned-American Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) are highly relevant to
the political transformation under way in Russia today. Khrushcheva, a
Russian living in America, finds in Nabokov's novels a useful guide for
Russia's integration into the globalized world. Now one of Nabokov's
"Western" characters herself, she discusses the cultural and social
realities of contemporary Russia that he foresaw a half-century earlier.
Andrew Nagorski
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate
Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
A gripping account of the deadliest battle ever and of the struggle between
Hitler and Stalin that left long-lasting psychological scars. The battle for
Moscow marked the first turning point in World War II.
Helaine Olen and Stephanie Lohsee
Office Mate: The Employee Handbook for Finding--and Managing--Romance on the
Job
Two
business and lifestyle journalists researched office romance to find out
what all the stigma is about. After all, they had both been married for 16
years to men they met at work. Helaine had spent years trying to perform
fix-ups for friends with no success and finally started advising people to
look for love in the office, where she found it. And when friends had
approached Stephanie asking how they could find "a Tom"—her husband's name
had become a noun—she made the same suggestion. Yet the lovelorn were
appalled. Look for love at work? Unthinkable! But when Helaine and Stephanie
surveyed the surveys on inter-office dating, they discovered that half of us
have done it at least once. They also found out why.
Silvana Paternostro
My Colombian War: A Journey
Through the Country I Left Behind
A timely, evocative account of a reporter's reckoning with her homeland's
volatile past Growing up in the coastal city of Barranquilla, Colombia,
Silvana Paternostro indulged in the typical concerns of a privileged young
girl: friendships and parties, school and family. But soon it became
apparent that life in Colombia would not go on as usual. Strange planes
appeared overhead, the harbingers of the marijuana drug trade that would
explode into cocaine wars over the next decade, and soon after, a disputed
election would lead to demonstrations and kidnappings targeting the affluent
landed elite-including Paternostro's family. A revolution was brewing, and
the social inequalities reflected in her life would boil over into the most
violent, most protracted, and most misunderstood civil war of our time. In
My Colombian War, Paternostro journeys back to the place where her family
and her closest friends still live, weaving authentic experience into a
history of this ongoing conflict. Through interviews she allows us to
witness the treacherous war zone that Colombia has become, projected on the
daily lives of its citizens. Paternostro's book is a stunning, comprehensive
narrative of Colombia's past and present.
Yaroslav Trofimov
The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's
Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda
A real-life thriller, this book tells the story of a long-covered-up event
that had wide-ranging impacts on the relationship between Islam and the
West. "Yaroslav Trofimov has written a spellbinding thriller. Packed with
vivid, previously undisclosed details, it illuminates a little-known hostage
crisis in the closed-off heart of the Muslim world that helped give rise to
Al Qaeda. Once I started reading, I couldn't put the book down."
—Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City:
Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Nicolas Vadot
The George W Bush Years: Colorful Cartoons of a
Black-and-White Thinker
George W Bush mistook Slovakia for Slovenia, thought the inhabitants of
Greece were called Greekians and didn't know the name of Pakistan's Prime
Minister. And to him Bin Laden was probably an East-German car brand.
Nevertheless, as months went by, he made a lot of progress in geopolitics,
realising for instance that the Afghan mountains were packed with people
like him, therefore he wasn't the only religious fundamentalist on Earth. Of
course, after eight years in power, he still has trouble distinguishing a
Shiite from a Sunni, a Kurd or even a European. However, what he does now
know is that on other side of the Atlantic Ocean, on the right hand side of
Britain, lies an Old Continent, full of pacifist beatniks who speak several
languages and who have all abolished the death penalty. In other words: true
savages. He can still hardly tell the difference between a nice little
morning breeze and a devastating hurricane and doesn't know what a weapon of
mass destruction really looks like, but he's eager to fill the gaps in his
general knowledge during his third term. What?? He can't run for a third
term?? What a pity.. In the George W Bush Years cartoonist Nicholas Vadot
has drawn his take on George Dubbya in a series of hilarious cartoons that
track the years of one of the most controversial American presidents ever.
David Wallis
Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression
The collection, heralded by Gahan Wilson of the New
Yorker as "amazing in its range," features nearly 100 editorial cartoons and
illustrations that were spiked by newspapers and magazines because of the
potential for controversy. Works by celebrated contemporary artists such as
Garry Trudeau, Steve Brodner, Edward Sorel, Ted Rall, Paul Conrad, Mike
Luckovich and Anita Kunz are displayed alongside unearthed gems by legends
like Al Hirschfeld, Herblock and Norman Rockwell. Here’s an article from the
Pasadena Weekly.
TIMELESS BOOKS
FICTION AND POETRY
Julia Alvarez
In
the Time of the Butterflies
This is the lyrical, tragic story
of the three sisters whose murder was the final catalyst for the
assassination of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. Actress Salma
Hayek was so moved by the story that she became involved in and starred in
a recent Showtime movie based on the book, and starring Edward James Olmos
as a truly creepy Trujillo, and Marc Antony as Minerva Mirabal's doomed
love.
Shauna Singh
Baldwin
What the Body Remembers From
Publisher's Weekly: "The dramatic and brutal story behind the 1947
partition of India, as played out in the region of Punjab, is the
compelling backdrop for this stunning first novel that entwines the fate
of three remarkable characters: Sardarji, a wealthy Sikh landowner whose
heart is in India, but whose head is in England; Satya, his constantly
scheming, feisty wife who lives for her husband but cannot give him
children; and Roop, Sardarji's second, much younger wife, married for
the express purpose of providing the family with an heir." I LOVED this
novel --there's such detail, the characters are complex and believable,
the human and political stakes are high, and even though it's long I
wished it were even longer.
J.M. Coetzee
Though this prolific South African writer
–turned-linguist and computer scientist-turned writer has written many
celebrated books, my favorites are
Foe,
In
the Heart of the Country, and Booker Prize winner
Life
and Times of Michael K.
Edwidge
Danticat
The
Farming of Bones
The story of the 1937 ethnic cleansing on the Dominican-Haitian
border.
The
Butterfly’s Way
An anthology of works, edited and introduced by
Edwidge Danticat, by Haitian diaspora writers.
Krik? Krak!
Short
stories in the tradition of Haiti's call-and-response, where the
storyteller asks, Krik? and children reply Krak! to hear the stories.
Junot Díaz
Drown
Acclaimed short stories about the Dominican immigrant experience,
the cruelty of children, the callousness of teenage males. Brutally
honest, yet with humor that redeems Junot's characters.
Phillis Levin,
editor
The
Penguin Book of the Sonnet
A thoughtfully compiled collection by
a talented poet.
V.S. Naipaul
Inspiring, daunting, maddening, the 2001 Nobel Prize winner’s writing at
its best raises my standards for what I read and write.
Sometimes, however, he can be cold, distanced and chauvinist.
My favorites are
The
Enigma of Arrival and
A
Bend in the River.
Flannery
O’Connor
The
Complete Stories
One of my very favorite writers, Flannery O'Connor has an eye and
ear for the bizarre -and (unlike post-modern writers who employ the
bizarre for its own sake) the rare trait of empathy for characters who are
lost and wandering.
Barbara
Fischkin
Confidential Sources is the sequel to
Exclusive: Reporters in Love and War. Both are the "Mulvaney-true"
(as opposed to "true-true") versions of Barbara's life Journalism hasn't
been so funny since Scoop. Confidential Sources is the story of the
fictional alter egos of her family, including Jim Mulvaney and their
sons Jack and Danny (who happens to be autistic), as Barbara and Jim
travel the world from China to Mexico as intrepid reporters. Exclusive
is the story of the fateful Mulvaney-Fishkin meeting in a Long Island
newsroom. (Those of you who teach journalism should order your students
to run, not walk, to get these novels.)
Graham Greene
No introduction required. My favorites
include his
Collected
Short Stories and his novel and nonfiction accounts of
Mexico:
The
Power and the Glory and
The
Lawless Roads.
Eudora Welty
Complete
Novels: The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing
Battles, The Optimist's Daughter
Beautiful fiction in the Southern tradition, with humor and tragedy.
Debby Waldman
A Sack Full of Feathers
Yankel loves to tell stories and repeat the gossip
that he hears in his father's store in the shtetl –but unfortunately, only
hears the bits and pieces that make trouble, not how things turn out. So the
rabbi decides to teach the boy a lesson by making him see that stories
spread and that they can be hurtful.
NONFICTION
Anastasia Ashman
 Tales
from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey (Seal Women's Travel) edited
by Anastasia Ashman and Jennifer Eaton Goekmen, is in some ways the reverse
of the familiar story of migration from developing countries to wealthy
nations. This charming collection of essays shows how much the struggle to
fit in and questions of identity apply as much to Western women adapting to
Turkey as they do to Third World migrants coming to the West.
Jake Bernstein and Lou Dubose
Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American
Presidency Here’s what
Publishers Weekly said in as starred review: “Dubose and Bernstein
show in this thorough, rollicking career biography that it's Cheney-not the
more publicly criticized Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, Condoleeza Rice or
President Bush-who is chiefly responsible for the most unpopular aspects of
the Bush regime: an imperial executive office and foreign policy;
abandonment of democratic ideals (respect for government checks and
balances, the Geneva Convention, the Bill of Rights and the Freedom of
Information Act); and questionable corporate-government colusion (the secret
energy task force, Halliburton's government contracts in Iraq).”
Ian Bremmer
The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise
and Fall. Publishers Weekly
says: “With this timely book, political risk consultant Bremmer aims to
‘describe the political and economic forces that revitalize some states and
push others toward collapse.’ His simple premise is that if one were to
graph a nation's stability as a function of its openness, the result would
be a ‘J curve,’ suggesting that as nations become more open, they become
less stable until they eventually surpass their initial levels of
stability.”
David Bornstein
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
From Bombay to Rio to Washington DC, David profiles nine people who saw the
need for social change and came up with new ways to do something to make it
happen.
David Callahan
The Moral Center: How We Can Reclaim Our Country from Die-Hard Extremists,
Rogue Corporations, Hollywood Hacks, and Pretend Patriots
David reclaims “moral
values” from the folks who have debased the term.
Rich Cohen
I
didn't expect to come across immigration in
 Sweet
and Low: A Family Story ,
but Rich Cohen makes a compelling case that the drive behind the creation of
the first blockbuster artificial sweetener was as much the story of an
immigrant family as it was of Brooklyn.
Michael Deibert
Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti
From the slums of
Port-au-Prince to Haiti's desperately poor countryside, the talented
journalist Michael Deibert chronicles the impunity and corruption that
destroyed the hope once embodied in President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Against a backdrop of crackling gunfire and the constant threat of despair,
this book speaks difficult truths on behalf of the many courageous Haitians
who have paid a terrible price for standing up to Brutality and fear.
T.J.
English
 Paddy
Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
, is as much a social
history of America as it is the story of unforgettable Irish gangsters from
Mickey Spillane to the ruthless Whitey Bulger to the Prohibition rumrunner
Big Bill Dwyer.
Stephen Ferry
I
Am Rich Potosi: The Mountain that Eats Men
Stephen Ferry
descends deep into the silver and tin mines at Potosi in Bolivia, and
brings up moving images of the people whose life depends on the merciless
mountain. With an introduction by Uruguayan essayist and historian Eduardo Galeano.
Barbara
Fischkin
Muddy
Cup: A Dominican Family Comes of Age in a New America
The Almonte family moves from the rural Dominican Republic to New York
City.
A classic
immigration story, beautifully told.
Carolina Gonzalez and Seth Kugel
Nueva York: the Complete Guide to Latino Life in the Five Boroughs.
Learn how to speak Spanish, dance the tango, or negotiate with a livery cab
driver in the five boroughs. From two friends who know the score.
Ron Hayduk
Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the United States
Ron, who co-directs The Immigrant Voting
Project (www.immigrantvoting.org)
with me, explains the all-but-forgotten history of noncitizen voting and
details ongoing efforts to restore rights for noncitizens to vote in
municipal and school board elections.
Kay Redfield
Jamison
An
Unquiet Mind
A noted psychologist, Jamison tells of her struggle with manic
depression. Harrowing and moving, this story makes you want to
applaud Jamison. Also fascinating --though from a scholarly, not purely
personal perspective-- is her
Touched
with Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament.
Mira Kamdar
If you agree that it is impossible to
understand America's future without understanding what is happening in the
rest of the world, I urge you to read
 Planet
India: How the Fastest Growing Democracy Is Transforming America and the
World Planet India, the brand-new
book (just released today!) by my friend and colleague Mira Kamdar. From
Bollywood movie stars to indebted farmers committing suicide to tea
merchants and U.S. software engineers working in India, Mira gives the
flavor of India today, tells how it got there, and gives a sense of where it
is going along with what its future means for the planet.
Also check out Mira's beautiful first
book,
 Motiba's
Tattoos, which uses
family memoir to shed light on history and the present.
Ryszard
Kapuscinski
This Polish journalist’s classics of
creative nonfiction,
The
Emperor and
The
Soccer War, are must-reads for aspiring and established
journalists.
Jorge
Klainman, translated by Kal Wagenheim
The
Seventh Miracle
After decades in safety in Argentina, this spirited author retells his
miraculous series of escapes from Nazi concentration
camps.
Kathie Klarreich
Madame Dread: A Tale of Love, Vodou, and Civil Strife in Haiti This is a
beautiful memoir of love, finding one's identity, and of course of the
inexplicable and unbreakable pull of Haiti.
Betsy Leondar-Wright
The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide
For every dollar owned by
the average white family in the United States, the average family of color
has less than a dime. Why do people of color have so little wealth?
David Lipsky
Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point From the New Yorker: "In
1998, the commandants at West Point offered the author, a Rolling Stone
reporter, unfettered access to their students. The result is a sunny
portrait of a group of young men and women who, as one of them says, "don't
quite fit in." Lipsky touches on some recent, controversial attempts at
modernizing the academy—such as a ban on hazing and the promotion of
"consideration of others" (which in the context of the Army could, in an
"extreme instance," mean jumping on a grenade to save the lives of your
fellow-soldiers)—but he is more effective as a chronicler of personality
than of politics."
David Marcus
What It Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four
of Them Got Out (now available in paperback)
Booklist says “Marcus, a Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist, was granted full access to students, parents, and
staff at a therapeutic boarding school in western Massachusetts. The result
is an astonishing profile of troubled teens: foulmouthed and truant Bianca;
D. J., on the brink of failing and fascinated with fire; disengaged and
depressed Tyrone, from the housing projects in Queens; and Mary Alice, drug
addicted and sexually promiscuous. Through his focus on particular teens and
their families, Marcus highlights the complexities of modern
adolescence--studies show that one in four youths suffers from some kind of
behavioral or emotional problem, including higher rates of suicide,
depression, and delinquency.”
Catherine
Orenstein
Little
Red Riding Hood Uncloaked
RuPaul says
that this book gives “a new meaning to the phrase ‘look under the
hood’.” With
often-subversive humor, Katie tells the story of the stories of Little Red
Riding Hood –ten versions, to be exact, as the fairy tale evolved from a
morality play to a gender-bending story of endangered wolves and grrrls in
the ‘hood. You GO, girl!
Silvana
Paternostro
In
the Land of God and Man: A Latin Woman’s Journey
Silvana exposes the double standards and secrets of Latin
America's sexual culture, in the process explaining why so many faithful
married women get AIDS, why so many women subject themselves to bizarre
and painful hymen reconstruction surgery. Moving and important.
Mary Pipher
Reviving
Ophelia: Saving the Selves of our Adolescent Girls
Through case studies, psychologist Mary Pipher shows how and why many
adolescent girls lose the optimistic, un-self-conscious outlook of
childhood and withdraw --and then explores how they can restore
themselves.
Nomi Prins
Jacked: How "Conservatives" Are Picking Your Pocket (Whether You Voted for
Them or Not)
Each chapter matches a wallet item to a set of political topics. The
driver's license leads to a discussion of gasoline prices, energy policy,
and Iraq; the Social Security card leads out to the administration's efforts
to "reform" Social Security by weakening it; the credit card points to
bankruptcy legislation and credit card company profits; the health insurance
card is a reminder of soaring medical and insurance costs, and the cutting
of Medicaid and Medicare, and so on.
Nick Reding
The
Last Cowboys at the End of the World: The Story of the Gauchos of
Patagonia
Nick Reding went to live with Chilean gauchos in Patagonia (yes,
Virginia, Patagonia and gauchos are not just Argentine) just as a new road
was about to connect their world to the twentieth century (if not yet the
twenty-first).
Heather Rogers
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
(Paperback)
Booklist Starred Review: “America leads the world in garbage, and that is
nothing to be proud of. A clear-thinking and peppery writer, Rogers presents
a galvanizing expose of how we became the planet's trash monsters. Americans
were ingeniously thrifty until industrialization ushered in consumer culture
and the age of disposable goods and built-in obsolescence. But once the
public was exhorted to buy stuff whether they needed it or not--and Rogers
provides many eye-opening examples of corporate strategies and
propaganda--new forms of garbage began to pile up and break down into toxic
substances.”
Daniel Asa Rose
Hiding
Places: A Father and his Sons Retrace their Family's Escape from the
Holocaust
A newly
divorced father takes his two young sons to Belgium to trace their
ancestors’ escapes from Hitler’s “Not-Sees.”
This book is one of those rare stories of a trip that considers the inner
journey to be just as important as the geographical distance traveled.
Lovely and moving.
Sidney Rosen
(editor)
My
Voice Will Go With You: the Teaching Tales of Milton Erickson
Lessons that the legendary hypnotist Milton Erickson taught his
patients, students and colleagues. Wise, funny, earthy, and worth
reading over and over.
Lucia Suarez
The Tears of Hispaniola: Haitian And Dominican Diaspora Memory
Lucia understands
that literature does not just exist between the pages of a book, but as part
of society and history. Her scholarship and analysis show a rare and
important ability to show the links between literature and real life. Her
literary analysis weaves in references to history, human rights, sociology,
and journalistic accounts of the important issues that pummel the lives of
the characters created by Dominican and Haitian diaspora writers: migration,
child slavery, poverty, loss, domestic violence, historical tragedy, and
contemporary political violence. If only all scholars wrote in such a
readable and accessible style
William
Strunk Jr., E.B. White, Roger Angell
The
Elements of Style
Okay, I'm a purist. Go get this if you don't have it
already. Please.
Maia Szalavitz
Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Kids
The frightening but true story of
tough-love schools and the families who fall for them. This book will make
you appreciate sane parents.
Aristide Zolberg
A Nation By Design: Immigration Policy in the Shaping of America.
How immigration policies through
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