New Books 5/2010

New Fiction suggestions:

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Private Life by Jane Smiley
Margaret travels to a navy base in California where she marries a man she barely knows. Sometime after marrying him she learns the dark secrets he has been harboring. It’s then that she puts her heart elsewhere. When World War II erupts and the man she’s come to care for disappears, she must reconsider her life.

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Solar by Ian McEwan
Beard, a middle-aged Nobel prize-winning physicist, supports himself with speaking engagements, by lending his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and by heading a government-backed initiative on global warming. A philanderer by nature, he is on his fifth marriage, which is floundering. This time however, she is the one having the affair. Soon, an opportunity presents itself to not only extricate himself from his marital mess, and reinvigorate his career, but possibly save the world from environmental disaster.

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Parrot and Oliver by Peter Carey

Although Olivier, the son of French aristocrats, and Parrot, the motherless son of an English engraver, are quite different, a situation brings them together and connects them like blood relation. When Olivier sets sail for America to save his neck from the guillotineurs, Parrot, is there too.

Interesting Non-fiction:

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Garden Bouquets and Beyond by Suzy Bales
Lifelong gardener and lifestyle writer Bales also takes on the role as inspirational designer to educate gardeners about the latest research on conditioning individual garden flowers, how to care for them immediately after cutting, and the length of time they can be expected to last. No other book has compiled such complete instructions for prolonging the bloom.

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WHOLE EARTH DISCIPLINE : AN ECOPRAGMATIST MANIFESTO
by: Brand, Stewart
DOUBLE COMFORT SAFARI CLUB
by: McCall Smith, Alexander