| 2009 | Book Title | Description | Author |
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| Jan 21 | | | |
| Feb 18 | | | |
| March 18 | 
The Ginger Man Grove Press $14.00 | The Ginger Man First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy's wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American ne'er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Dangerfield's appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless charm. "Lusty, violent, wildly funny ... The Ginger Man is the picaresque novel to stop them all."--Dorothy Parker, Esquire. | J. P. Donleavy |
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| May 20 | 
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Sarah Crichton Books $12.00 | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier "A Long Way Gone is one of the most important war stories of our generation. The arming of children is among the greatest evils of the modern world, and yet we know so little about it because the children themselves are swallowed up by the very wars they are forced to wage. Ishmael Beah has not only emerged intact from this chaos, he has become one of its most eloquent chroniclers. We ignore his message at our peril." --Sebastian Junger, author of A Death in Belmont and A Perfect Storm | Ishmael Beah |
| June 17 | 
1984 Signet Book $9.99 | 1984 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny this novel's power, its hold on the imagination of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions - a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time. | George Orwell |
| July 15 | 
The Daughter of Time Touchstone Books $14.00 | The Daughter of Time The Daughter of Time is an ingeniously plotted, beautifully written, and suspenseful tale, a supreme achievement from one of mystery writing's most gifted masters. "The unalloyed pleasure of watching a really cultivated mind in action! Buy and cherish!" - Boston Sunday Globe "One of the best mysteries of all time." - The New York Times | Josephine Tey |
| August 19 | 
Out Stealing Horses Picador USA $14.00 | Out Stealing Horses An early morning adventure out stealing horses leads to the tragic death of one boy and a resulting lifetime of guilt and isolation for his friend, in this moving tale about the painful loss of innocence and of traditional ways of life that are gone forever. | Per Petterson |
| Sept 16 | 
Stubborn Twig Oregan State University Press $18.95 | Stubborn Twig: Three Generations of Life in a Japanese-American Family In 1903, Masuo Yasui came to America and eventually became a successful orchardist and father of eight children. But the "relocation" of Japanese Americans during World War II caused Yasui to take his own life. The Yasui family opened its records and memories to Lauren Kessler, who writes a social history that rings with truth and drama. | Lauren Kessler |
| Oct 21 |  Gulliver's Travels Signet Classics $4.95 | Gulliver's Travels Read by children as an adventure story and by adults as a devastating satire of society, Gulliver and his four journeys make for a fascinating blend of travelogue, realism, symbolism, and fantastic voyageaall with a serious philosophical intent.
| Jonathan Swift |
| Nov 18 | 
A Thousand Splenid Suns Riverhead Books $16.00 | A Thousand Splenid Suns Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. | Khaled Hosseini |
| Dec 16 | 
A Magnificent Catastrophe Free Press $15.00 | A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign "They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election -- an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy that Thomas Jefferson would later dub it "America's second revolution." | Edward J. Larson |
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