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Wrestle
Hoop Dreams goes to the mat in this intimate coming-of-age documentary about four members of a high-school wrestling team at Huntsville's J.O. Johnson High School, a longstanding entry on Alabama's list of failing schools.
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And after the fire
A novel--inspired by historical events--about two women, one European and one American, and the mysterious choral masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach that changes both their lives.
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A WOMAN AT THE CENTER OF ATTENTION IN 1901 BUFFALO
On the first Monday in March 1901, in the early evening when the sound of sleigh bells filled the air, a student unexpectedly knocked at my door. I was accustomed to receiving visitors on Mondays before dinner, when my drawing room was transformed into a salon. Bankers and industrialists would stop by my comfortable stone house attached to the Macaulay School, knowing they would find...
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Ireland Without Saints
In his first novel (but not his first to be published in America), Patrick McCabe presents a devastating portrait of a backwater community on the border between the Irish Republic and the North. Not surprisingly, CARN (Delta, paper, $11.95) shows us a place in which the uncertainties of the present meld into the tragedies and glories of the past. The town of Carn's fortunes ebb and flow with the economic vicissitudes of faraway countries that are only dimly recognized by the local people -- but they also vary with the endless, much more immediate cycles of the Irish \"troubles.\"
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An Unnatural Wonder
\"This book documents an obsession,\" writes Ginger Strand in her entertaining study of the exploitation of Niagara Falls, both town and waterfall Niagara's history, she claims, is fraught with \"falsification, prevarication and omission.\" In Inventing Niagara, die sets out on a quest to cut through the cultural accretions of centuries and find the fundamental truth about Niagara.
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Murder, He Wired
In July 1910, a sensational news story spread around the world: An American doctor wanted in London for the gruesome murder of his wife --she was poisoned, flayed, deboned and buried in the couple's basement-- was fleeing justice on an ocean liner headed from Antwerp to Quebec City. He was accompanied by a young woman, his lover, who was disguised as a boy. Another ship, bearing the Scotland Yard inspector in charge of the case, gave chase. Through the...
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Our Bodies, Ourselves
Amid the controversy surrounding the apparent trend of well-educated young women opting for motherhood over careers, the hard-won battles for women's equality fought by previous generations are easily forgotten. Marge Piercy's fascinating and only too relevant novel about post-Civil War America portrays women's rights crusader Elizabeth Cady Stanton maturing in an era when if a married woman \"earned or inherited any money, it was [her husband's].
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FICTION
NINE FAIRY TALES BY KAREL CAPEK: And One More Thrown in for Good Measure. By Karel Capek. Translated by Dagmar Herrmann. Illustrations by Josef Capek. (Northwestern University, Cloth, $24.95; Paper, $9.95.) The Czechoslovak playwright, journalist, essayist and novelist Karel Capek (1890-1938) is perhaps best known for his science-fiction novel \"War With the Newts\" and his futuristic play \"R.U.R.,\" in which he coined the term \"robot.\"
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