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'Paint It Black: A Novel' by Janet Fitch
Josie Tyrell is a teenage runaway, an artist's model, and an habitué of the '80s L.A. punk rock scene. She is a white trash escapee from Bakersfield, having left a going-nowhere life there. Now, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll inform her days and nights.
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'The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals' by Michael Pollan
What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of "The Botany of Desire," how we answer it today, at the
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| 'One Red Paperclip' by Kyle MacDonald
Kyle MacDonald had a paperclip. One red paperclip, a dream and a resume to write. And bills to pay. Oh, and a very patient girlfriend who was paying the rent while he was once again "between jobs."
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| 'Spook Country' by William Gibson
Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer.
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| 'Challenger Park' by Stephen Harrigan
From the author of the acclaimed and best-selling "The Gates of the Alamo," a novel of extraordinary power about what it's like, and what it means, to journey into space as one of today's astronauts.
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| 'The World Without Us' by Alan Weisman
In "The World Without Us," Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: He asks us to envision our Earth without us.
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| 'The Beautiful Miscellaneous' by Dominic Smith
At 17, Nathan Nelson has no idea what he wants to be. His particle-physicist father, however, has already made up his mind: Nathan will be a genius!
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| 'Forgive Me' by Amanda Eyre Ward
Upon finishing Ward's tantalizingly spare yet precisely powerful novel, readers will want to start all over again, looking for the clues they missed the first time around when Ward, like a cunning magician, so deftly led them astray.
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| 'Dishwasher' by Pete Jordan
Jordan, sometimes known as "Dishwasher Pete," serves up one of the most entertaining memoirs to appear in quite a while.
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| 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright
Austin author Lawrence Wright just won the Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, an incredibly detailed account of the events leading up to the tragic events of September 11, 2001.
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| 'Around The Bloc' by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
This week's Page Turners featured book is Around The Bloc by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
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| 'Special Topics In Calamity Physics' by Marisha Pessl
Marisha Pessl's uniquely titled novel is about "the resulting explosion of energy, light, heartbreak and wonder as Blue van Meer enters a small, elite school in a sleepy mountain town."
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| 'Waterloo' by Karen Olsson
Bittersweet and biting, elegiac and sharply observed, "Waterloo" is a portrait of a generation in search of itself -- and a love letter to the slackers, rockers, hustlers, hacks, and hangers-on who populate Austin -- from a formidable new intelligence in American fiction.
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