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<description><![CDATA[Michael Moorcock’s fantasy hero Elric is a kind of anti-Conan: he is a thin, longhaired albino with a darkly cynical worldview.    
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<description><![CDATA[Virginia Heffernan on self-help books; David Orr on Frances Richey’s new poetry collection; Rachel Donadio with notes from the field; and Gregory Cowles with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.    
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<description><![CDATA[Last week: George got some advice about his predicament from an old friend who is familiar with dealing with trouble.    
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<description><![CDATA[What makes a beach book? It’s a crucial question for publishers — not to mention readers — this month.    
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<description><![CDATA[This suspenseful first novel is set in a crumbling Dorset mansion and features two aging sisters, reunited after a separation of nearly fifty years. Virginia is the sensible older sister who stayed, carrying on the family tradition of lepidopterology, while the reckless and free-spirited Vivien left to lead a&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[At the height of his fame, in the nineteen-twenties, the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was arguably the leading figure in Soviet art. Perhaps only Walt Whitman--whom Mayakovsky passionately admired--wrote with similar breadth and exhilaration. This volume offers some of Mayakovsky&#8217;s best works in vivid translations, and interleaves them&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[In the six years since his critically praised d&#233;but, &#8220;The 25th Hour,&#8221; Benioff has produced a story collection and a handful of screenplays, including the blockbuster &#8220;Troy.&#8221; The imprint of his film work is evident in this novel, a finely honed but too easily sentimental adventure story set during the&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Pitte, a specialist in wine geographies, relates a long and fierce oenophile war in this charming history. Although Bordeaux wine has been an engine of innovation in the world of viticulture--British and Dutch merchants began marketing it in the late seventeenth century, and the Bordeaux bottle, whose familiar profile&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>The Garden of Last Days</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dubus&#8217;s follow-up to &#8220;House of Sand and Fog&#8221; is inspired by the rumored visit of 9/11 hijackers to a strip club shortly before their attacks. In the fictional Puma Club, in Sarasota, Florida, a twenty-six-year-old named Bassam al-Jizani watches Spring, a stripper, undress, and finds&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[King, a professor at Santa Barbara, has spent decades collecting things that nobody else would want: food packages and labels (he has about eighteen thousand), illustrations snipped from old dictionaries (seven thousand), linings of &#8220;security&#8221; envelopes (eight hundred patterns), &#8220;the mute, meager, practically valueless object, like a sea-washed spigot&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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