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June 2009

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published June 2009.

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Cul-de-Sac Syndrome

by Harold Cordry

Readers who discreetly slip out the door when the economist rises to speak need have no concerns about John Wasik. Most reassuring on this score is the fact that Wasik writes a widely popular column in the Bloomberg News. Or, go to his... Read More

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Dillingers Wild Ride

by Shewanda Pugh Garner

Though John Dillinger’s story is a familiar one, Elliot J. Gorn seeks a less traditional route in its retelling. Using government documents and newspapers, Gorn describes the activities of the Dillinger gang during their final year and... Read More

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Waking Up in Eden

by Nancy E Walker

“True adventures come without safety nets,” writes award-winning journalist Lucinda Fleeson as she trades her staid East coast life for a Hawaiian adventure. Fleeson moves to Kauai to serve as fundraiser for the National Tropical... Read More

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The Bottom of the Sky

by Marlene Satter

The corrupting influence of big money is just one dark force at work in this story of an abused brother and sister and their futile attempts to rise above their pasts. Levi Monroe and his sister Lam have known beatings and worse at the... Read More

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The Barcelona Cookbook

by Matt Sutherland

Who better to celebrate in book form the musical-chair-like ingredients used in authentic tapas cuisine than the owners of a wildly successful chain of upscale tapas restaurants in the northeastern United States? Tapas is a freestyle... Read More

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Anatomy of a Beast

by Andi Diehn

America has a seemingly boundless supply of strange and unusual creatures within its borders, but people persist in finding extra mysteries in the large tracts of wilderness that still cover some corners of the country. Bigfoot may be... Read More

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Healing into Possibility

by Harold Cordry

Stroke survivors experience varying degrees of suffering and different levels of damage to different parts of the brain. The result is different kinds of disability with which they must thereafter cope. The author, a California... Read More

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