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June 04, 2006

JUNE

The Abortionist's Daughter

A Novel

Elisabeth Hyde

Alfred A. Knopf

The murder of the idealistic director of the Center for Reproductive Choice disrupts life in a small Colorado town.

Boudica

The Life of Britain's Legendary Warrior Queen

Vanessa Collingridge

Overlook

The true story of the female warrior who almost drove the Romans out of Britain in AD 60.

Burning Rainbow Farm

How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke

Dean Kuipers

Bloomsbury

State and federal officers' attempt to seize a marijuana-growing farm in southwestern Michigan ends in a lethal hail of gunfire.

Cellophane

A Novel

Marie Arana

Dial Press

An entrepreneur and his family struggle with "a plague of truth" that descends on them in the heart of the Peruvian rain forest.

Considering Genius

Writings on Jazz

Stanley Crouch

Basic Books

Collected essays by the esteemed jazz critic and co-founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center on the art and its performers.

The Fellowship

The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright & the Taliesin Fellowship

Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman

ReganBooks

An expose of the dark side of the great architect's Arizona colony.

Staying Up Much Too Late

Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the Dark Side of the American Psyche

Gordon Theisen

St. Martin's/Dunne

An essay on the lonely and downtrodden underpinnings of American life as captured in Hopper's iconic painting.

Swapping Lives

A Novel

Jane Green

Viking

A married American woman with children and a high-powered single British career woman trade places.

The Whistling Season

A Novel

Ivan Doig

Harcourt

The story of life on a farm in the dry stretches of rural eastern Montana in the early 20th century.

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54

A Novel

Wu Ming

Harcourt

Cary Grant, Lucky Luciano, the KGB and Britain's MI-6 are intertwined in this satire set in the Cold War era.

The Black Book

A Novel

Orhan Pamuk; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely

Vintage

A tale about an Istanbul lawyer whose mystery-loving wife has gone missing.

Breach of Faith

Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City

Jed Horne

Random House

A chronicle of the disaster and its various perpetrators, by the metro editor of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans.

Conservatives Without Conscience

John Dean

Viking

President Nixon's legal counsel rails against Christian fundamentalists, neoconservatives and others he claims have hijacked the Republican Party.

Friendship

An Expose

Joseph Epstein

Houghton Mifflin

The noted essayist examines our ideas about friendship in its various forms.

History Lesson for Girls

A Novel

Aurelie Sheehan

Viking

Bonded by their love of horses, two teenage girls cling to each other amid the tumult in their Connecticut town in the 1970s.

The Inhabited World

A Novel

David Long

Houghton Mifflin

The ghost of a man who killed himself over his marital infidelities tries to help a Seattle-area woman in the same situation.

The Librettist of Venice

The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte

Rodney Bolt

Bloomsbury

A biography of the Jewish orphan from a Venice ghetto who became a priest, poet and collaborator of Mozart's.

Forty Million Dollar Slaves

The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

William C. Rhoden

Crown

An account of the virtual enslavement of black athletes in America's money-minded sports industry.

One Mississippi

A Novel

Mark Childress

Little, Brown

A Midwestern teenager makes new friends in an Alabama town, where he encounters bullying and racism.

Pegasus Descending

A Dave Robicheaux Novel

James Lee Burke

Simon & Schuster

The New Iberia police detective tracks a grifter on the prowl in Louisiana bayou country.

River of No Reprieve

Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny

Jeffrey Tayler

Houghton Mifflin

The author's account of his harrowing 2,400-mile trip in an inflatable raft on Siberia's Lena River.

The Ruins

A Novel

Scott Smith

Alfred A. Knopf

Young Americans lost in a Mexican jungle turn on each other as a deadly menace stalks them.

Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!

A Novel

Mark Binelli

Dalkey Archive

The infamous anarchists are imagined as vaudevillians-turned-silent film comics \o7a\f7\o7 la \f7Laurel and Hardy.

Siddhartha

A Novel

Hermann Hesse, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky

Modern Library

A new translation of the classic story of an idealistic young Brahmin who learns life's hardest lessons.

Spoiling for a Fight

The Rise of Eliot Spitzer

Brooke A. Masters

Times Books

A look at the New York state attorney general's crusade against corporate and Wall Street miscreants and his bid to be governor.

Talk Talk

A Novel

T.C. Boyle

Viking

A deaf woman and her lover set out to find the con artist who stole her identity.

We

A Novel

Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated from the Russian by Natasha Randall

Modern Library

A new translation of the Russian revolutionary's 1920s satire about a dystopian future world where all work for the collective good.

What It Used to Be Like

A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver

Maryann Burk Carver

St. Martin's

Carver's long-suffering wife recounts their life together through 25 years of marriage, alcoholism and infidelities.

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AUGUST

All Aunt Hagar's Children

Stories

Edward P. Jones

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