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Eat More Dirt by Ellen Sandbeck
This witty guide to gardening organically includes tips that may seem unorthodox but that the author guarantees will work. She also includes helpful information about the benefits of gardening that go beyond the actual plants involved, including exercise and relaxation.

AUTHOR: Ellen Sandbeck
PUBLISHER: Broadway Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Gardening

Gravity's Rainbow 1973 by Thomas Pynchon
Tyrone Slothrop is an archetypal innocent abroad, but in the worst possible circumstances: he's an American on a mission to locate V-2 rocket-launching sites in war-torn Europe. On a larger level, the novel illustrates the struggle between those who perceive and rebel against the war, seeing it as an overt movement toward the obliteration of the individual, and those who suppress individual identity to serve the war machine controlled by Them. Which side Slothrop is on remains highly ambiguous. A totalizing, encyclopedic work in much the same way as Joyce's ULYSSES, this is perhaps one of the two or three most critically acclaimed and pondered novels of the 20th century. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW is dedicated to Richard Farina, a young author Pynchon met at Cornell whose promising literary career was cut short by a fatal motorcycle accident. In 1974, the Pulitzer Prize Committee recommended this novel unanimously, but the Pulitzer Prize Board rejected it as obscene and unreadable. As a result, there was no prize awarded for that year.

AUTHOR: Thomas Pynchon
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
In 1946, Evelyn Sert is 20 years old and an ardent Zionist. She emigrates from London to Palestine, where she works on a kibbutz, then becomes a hairdresser. When she falls in love with a man who turns out to be a terrorist working against the British, she becomes involved against her will in an episode of violence. Evelyn slowly becomes aware that the issues are more complicated than she had assumed, and in the process she begins to grow up.

AUTHOR: Linda Grant
PUBLISHER: Dutton/Plume
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 by Garrison Keillor
Young Gary, who has literary ambitions, comes of age in the ever-popular Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon in Garrison Keillor's sort-of-sequel to WOBEGON BOY.

AUTHOR: Garrison Keillor
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

I Am the Darker Brother by Arnold Adoff, Benny Andrews
This collection of poetry includes contributions from Gwedolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright.

AUTHOR: Arnold Adoff, Benny Andrews
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

The Velocity of Money by Keith Styrcula
A young Wall Street attorney attempts to thwart a group of cyber-terrorists' scheme to bring down the world's financial markets.

AUTHOR: Keith Styrcula
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction