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Dynamic Dads

Dynamic Dads

Unforgettable fathers from fiction.

 

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June 11, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media
Turtle Diary

Turtle Diary

A poignant novel of two lost souls and a dream of freedom, from the author of Riddley Walker.

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June 10, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media
The Last Summer of the Camperdowns

The Last Summer of the Camperdowns

Dripping with Gatsby-esque tragedy, this story of a wealthy family’s annual pilgrimage to Cape Cod mixes malcontents and murder in a raucous cocktail. 

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June 10, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media
Old World Magic in Old New York

Old World Magic in Old New York

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni. Like some agreeable conflation of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Mark Helprin and the [...]

June 10, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media
Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz

The suspense master on five books his beloved character Odd Thomas would recommend.

 

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June 10, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media
The Other Typist

The Other Typist

A work of Jazz Age noir with a debt to Fitzgerald.

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June 10, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media
Walking the Way

Walking the Way

Taoism, the study of yin and yang, has been around since the six century B.C., but psychologist Robert Rosenbaum creates a fresh take on Zen living with thoughtful anecdotes and insights.

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June 9, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media
Dreadful

Dreadful

This literary biography follows John Horne Burns, a briefly successful 1940s novelist who led an unconventional life during the age of conformity, with his Irish Catholic roots and sexuality clashing in wondrous and tragic ways.

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June 8, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media
Call of the Wild Things

Call of the Wild Things

June 10: Maurice Sendak was born on this day in 1928. Sendak said that his children's books are addressed to "freaky kids who lick, sniff, and carry on over their books before they even read them." In his Caldecott acceptance, [...]

June 8, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media
Orwell’s Warning

Orwell’s Warning

June 8: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was published on this day in 1949. Shortly afterward, to point his theme and his lifelong commitment, Orwell issued a post-publication press release: "The moral to be drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is [...]

June 8, 2013 Fresh from Barnes and Noble, Fresh Media