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|  | In America
A Polish actress in America is the focus of Sontag's fourth novel. Based on a true-life story, the novel traces the career of Maryna Dembowska, who, after achieving success on her own, teams up with the famous actor Edwin Booth, who falls in love with her. The story is advanced by means of several unusual points of view, including a stage speech written by Maryna to Booth, and the diary kept by one of her husbands. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Introduction to Rabbinic Literature by Jacob Neusner
A commentary on the history of rabbinic teachings: the Mishnah, the Tosefta, the Talmuds, and more. AUTHOR: Jacob Neusner
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Dragon Seekers
McGowan, curator of paleobiology at the Royal Ontario Museum, discusses the contribution of figures such as Gideon Mantell and Richard Owen to the field of paleontology and to the scientific revolution inaugurated by Darwin.
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Old Man & the Sea by C. F. Tunnicliffe, Charles Scribner, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Sheppard, Prentice-Hall Staff
In language of great simplicity and power, Hemingway tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal--a relentless, agonizing battle with a marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, considered one of Hemingway's best novels, is a stark portrait of endurance, and the old man is one of his most fully realized characters. AUTHOR: C. F. Tunnicliffe, Charles Scribner, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Sheppard, Prentice-Hall Staff
PUBLISHER: Scribner
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Greenhouse Summer by Norman Spinrad
As the Earth is slowly dying from Condition Venus--an out-of-control greenhouse effect--the U.N. meets to discuss the world's fate. Meanwhile, to rival organizations (both subversive to one degree or another) are competing to come out on top and secure control of suddenly valuable farmland in Siberia. AUTHOR: Norman Spinrad
PUBLISHER: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Black Mesa Poems by Jimmy S. Baca
The individual poems of Black Mesa are embedded both in the family and in the community life of the barrio, detailing births and deaths, neighbors and seasons, injustices and victories. AUTHOR: Jimmy S. Baca
PUBLISHER: New Directions Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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