Without a
Map, Meredith Hall, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7273-8
Kirkus, starred review in the January 1st issue: “An unusually
powerful coming-of-age memoir… Searching, humble and quietly triumphant:
Hall has managed to avoid all the easy clichés.”
Without a Map has been selected as one of three titles in Elle
magazine’s “Readers’ Prize” column. Each month the magazine
asks 15 jurors to read, rank and make comments on three nonfiction or fiction
titles. The books are then listed, with jacket art, along with two or three
selected comments from the readers.
The Iron
Cage, Rashid Khalidi, cloth, October 2006, $24.95, 0-8070-0308-5
Salon, interview in December 18th issue
America Abroad, radio documentary hosted by Ray Suarez, 100 national public
stations and 145 countries, taped interview on Wednesday, December 22nd
Shout, Sister,
Shout!, Gayle F. Wald, cloth, February 2007, $25.95, 0-8070-0984-9
(10), 978-0-8070-0984-0 (13)
Booklist, review in the January 1st issue: “Ward’s illuminating
biography brings the deliciously flamboyant singer to life as gospel’s
first superstar and a seminal figure defying musical categorization.”
Big-Box Swindle,
Stacy Mitchell, cloth, November 2006, $25.95, 0-8070-3500-9
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