Featured Books
February 2008
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Verses
Ani DiFranco
Publisher's Comments
With eight Grammy nominations and sales of over 4.5 million,
Ani DiFranco is one of America’s most fiercely independent and beloved
musicians, as well as an outspoken voice of conscience. For the first
time, she releases a book of poetry and paintings, capturing her
essential artistry that has helped define and invigorate a new
generation.
Verses rages, eulogizes, menaces, revels, and
envisions. With a poet’s precision and a citizen’s stake, DiFranco finds
the meeting places of intimacy and politics, of self and country, of
resolve and compromise, and of the fickle and magnificent capacities of
love and solitude. |
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The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
The Complete Persepolis is February's My Book
Club pick. My Book Club will meet at Broad Vocabulary on Wednesday,
February 27 at 6 PM. Everyone is welcome!
Publisher's Comments `
Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling,
internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is
the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within
a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of
the contradictions between private life and public life in a country
plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing
the trails of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming--both
sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her
beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at
once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of
her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up.
Edgy, searingly observant, and candid, often heartbreaking but threaded
throughout with raw humor and hard-earned wisdom--Persepolis is
a stunning work from one of the most highly regarded, singularly
talented graphic artists at work today. |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher's Comments
One of the most important works of twentieth-century
American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their
Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story
sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the
captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness,
fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned,
fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through
three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose. A
true literary wonder, Hurston's masterwork remains as relevant and
affecting today as when it was first published -- perhaps the most
widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African
American literature.
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