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June 15, 2008

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published June 15, 2008. You can also view all of the books we've reviewed that were published anytime in June 2008.

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A Natural Sense of Wonder

It’s an accepted lament among parents and educators that children spend much less time outside than they used to. Instead of roaming the suburbs on bikes, exploring vacant lots, and getting very dirty by the time their parents call... Read More

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The Sign for Drowning

by Carol Haggas

When she was a child, Anna stood at the water’s edge beside her mother, both of them helplessly frozen as they watched an ocean wave capsize the boat carrying Anna’s younger sister, Megan. In that singular, life-changing instant,... Read More

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Kafka Comes to America

by Sarah Trachtenberg

What separates the United States in its treatment of its alleged enemies from the tyrannical dictatorships that are its enemies? According to public defender and first-time author Steven Wax: precious little. Wax, who was part of the... Read More

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I Am My Own Dragon

by Marlene Satter

Lucy March has made mistakes; she tells readers so on the first page of this fictional memoir. But it’s all too easy to see how she came to make them. In conversational style (the reader is addressed as “you” in asides that wax... Read More

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Walking Tractor

by Karl Helicher

For the author, the lush Redwood country of California’s Anderson Valley gave him a sense of purpose, a reverence for nature, and a pride in accomplishment that neither his childhood on the poor side of Los Angeles nor the Vietnam War... Read More