Sunday, February 27th, 2011
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Sunday, February 20th, 2011
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Sunday, February 13th, 2011
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Sunday, February 6th, 2011
James Baldwin and Randall Kenan–Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
Rebecca Burns–Burial for a King: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Funeral and the Week that Transformed Atlanta and Rocked the Nation
Peniel E. Joseph–Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
Danielle L. McGuire–At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance
Michele Norris–The Grace of Silence
Nell Irvin Painter–The History of White People
Eugene Robinson–Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
Hampton Sides–Hellhound On His Trail
Rebecca Skloot–The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Isabel Wilkerson–The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
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Sunday, January 30th, 2011
Chuck Hogan–Prince of Thieves (The Town)
Sebastian Junger–War (Restrepo)
Ben Mezrich–The Accidental Billionaires (The Social Network)
Charles Portis–True Grit
Aron Ralston–Between a Rock and a Hard Place (127 Hours)
J.K. Rowling–Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
William Shakespeare–The Tempest
Daniel Woodrell–Winter’s Bone
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Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
Laird Barron – Occultation horror
Robert Jackson Bennett – Mr. Shivers horror
Blake Charleton – Spellwright fantasy
Justin Cronin – The Passage horror
Amanda Downum – The Bone Palace: Necromancer Chronicles fantasy
Stephen M. Irwin – The Dead Path horror
N. K. Jemisin – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms fantasy
Guy Gavriel Kay- Under Heaven fantasy
Stephen King – Full Dark, No Stars horror
John Ajvide Lindqvist – Handling the Undead horror
Karen Lord – Redemption in Indigo fantasy
Gary Shteyngart – Super Sad True Love Story sf
Daniele Trussoni – Angelology fantasy
Jeff VanderMeer – The Third Bear(short stories) fantasy
Connie Willis – Blackout sf
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Friday, January 14th, 2011
- Jane Brox–Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light
- Susan Casey–The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
- Paul Greenberg–Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
- Stephen Hawking–The Grand Design
- Sam Kean–The Disappearing Spoon
- Siddhartha Mukherjee–The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
- Hugh Raffles–Insectopedia
- Mary Roach–Packing for Mars
- Oliver Sacks–The Mind’s Eye
- Rebecca Skloot–The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Jonathan Weiner–Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality
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Sunday, January 9th, 2011
By Sara Martinez, author of Latino Literature: A Guide to Reading Interests
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Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
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