Book Bits
New Fiction & Poetry | New Nonfiction | New DVDs | Recommend a Book |
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New Fiction & Poetry
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The Women by T.C. Boyle |
The Children's Book by A.S. Bryant |
Lost Symbol by Dan Brown |
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Summertime by J.M. Coetzee |
The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst |
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall |
The Increment by David Ignatius |
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver |
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Stitches: A Memoir by David Small |
The Help by Katherine Stockett |
Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler |
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The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld |
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld |
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld |
Specials by Scott Westerfeld |
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New Nonfiction
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Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely |
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher |
Crisis: 40 Stories About Growing up Gay in America |
The Woman Behind the New Deal by Kirstin Downey |
Bottlemania by Elizabeth Royte |
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Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler |
Renaissance Figures of Speech by Adamson, editor |
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Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary |
Atom and the Apple by Sebastien Balibar |
Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell by Dennis Bray |
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Iconoclast by Geregory Burns |
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Spark: Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey |
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The Kings of New York by Michael Weinreb |
The Yankee Years by Joe Torre |
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Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World - Karen Klugman and the Project on Disney |
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell |
Ulysses & Us by Declan Kiberd |
Family Life in the Age of Shakespeare by Bruce W. Young |
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Where Men Win Glory: Odyssey of Pat Tilman by Jon Krakauer |
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers |
Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad |
New On DVD
| Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin with Renee Fleming and Ramon Vargas(Metropolitan Opera) | Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor with Pablo Elivra and Joan Sutherland (Metropolitan Opera) | Puccini's Turandot with Eva Marton and Placido Domingo (Metropolitan Opera) | |
| Pucinni's Tosca with Hildegard Behrens and Placido Domingo (Metropolitan Opera | Verd's La Traviata with Renee Fleming and Rolando Villazon (Los Angeles Opera) | Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel with Christine Schafer and Alice Coote (Metropolitan Opera) | Puccini's Il trittico with Amarilli Nizza and Alberto Mastromarino (Teatro Comunale di Modena) |
| Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci with Placido Domingo (Teatro Alla Scalla) | Verdi's Rigolleto with Placido Domingo and Isola Jones (Metropolitan Opera) | Puccini's Il tabarro with Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas (Metropolitan Opera) | |
| Verdi's Rigolleto with Placido Domingo and Isola Jones (Metropolitan Opera) | Verdi's Otello with Placido Domingo and Renee Fleming (Metropolitan Opera) | ||
| Adam's Dr. Atomic with Gerald Finley and Jessica Rivera (Metropolitan Opera) | Puccini's La Boheme with Renata Scotto and Luciano Pavarotti (Metropolitan Opera) | Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment with natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Florez (Metropolitan Opera) | Bizet's Carmen with Marina Domashenko and Marco Berti (Arena di Verona) |
Reader Resources
| New York Times Sunday Book Review |
| iCONN Audio Book Downloads |
| iCONN What Do I Read Next? |
| Washington Post Chapter One |
| Teen Ink |