Misfortune by Wesley Stace
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Reading Misfortune is like tiptoeing into the bedroom of your favorite Victorian heroine, sliding stealthily between the sheets, swelling with confidence as she ecstatically bites the hand that silences her, discovering at some heated moment in your ravishing of the wanton thing that she is a man, then shrugging off the surprise in surrender to the sweetest night of your entire 19th century life. Read it in bed.

A Hundred and One Days by Asne Seierstad
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Norwegian journalist Seierstad, author of The Bookseller of Kabul, files reports from Iraq before, during, and after the 2003 invasion by interviewing Iraqi civilians and American soldiers. As order gave way to chaos with the impending invasion, Seierstad was able to file more of the intimate accounts that reveal the horrors and bloodshed the Iraqis have witnessed from all fronts.

Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life by Michael Lewis
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Moneyball author Lewis withstood some tough mentoring from a tough-as-nails, old school coach who accepts no failure. These days, high school coach Fitzgerald's character-building style is under attack but Lewis takes time to illuminate what can be gained by reexamining such old-school standards, and what we're losing by giving them up.

Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
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In lighthousekeeping, Winterson returns to the intimacy of her earlier work, with an almost rhythmic prose that evokes the sea that surrounds the chiaroscuro lives of her characters.

The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them
by Amy Goodman and David Goodman List price: $12.95 Sale price: $10.36
Amy Goodman vows "to go to where the silence is, to give voice to the silenced majority." Bill Clinton called her, "Hostile, combative, and even disrespectful." Newt Gingrich told her that it was because of "people like you" that he warned his mother not to speak to reporters. The New York Times says she's a "reporter who's not easy- listening." The Indonesian military banned her, calling her a "threat to national security." Clearly, she's our kind of person.

Public Enemy #2: An All-New Boondocks Collection by Aaron McGruder List price: $15.95, Sale price: $12.76
The dialog between a cute, radical, preteen conspiracy theorist and his mad-to-be-thug younger brother is what constantly gets The Boondocks comic strip censored from newspapers all over America. Skewering George Bush and Bill Cosby in equally acerbic doses, Aaron McGruder bites hard.

The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem
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Before the expertly written Fortress of Solitude, before his breakout Motherless Brooklyn, before he worked at Moe's, we had him. Now from our own Jonathan Lethem, a collection of essays that develop into a revealing memoir about pop culture obsessions, childhood, creativity, loss, and growing up.

Like A Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads by Greil Marcus
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Marcus has a voice as vital, unique, and quintessentially American as those he writes about.

You Can Do It!: The Merit Badge Handbook For Grown-up Girls by Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas with Yvette BozziniList price: $24.95, Sale price: $19.96
Want to finally learn how to climb a mountain, fix your own car, skydive, start your own business? Here's a comprehensive guide with step by step advice from experts in each field. And all of the experts happen to be women.

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
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Sixtyish book dealer Giambattista ("Yambo") Bodoni, suffering from retrograde amnesia, does not recognize anyone in his family but can remember every plot of every book he's ever read. "Mysterious Flame" unfolds like a graphic novel in this entertaining, lively tour through 20th century history and popular culture.