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Newsletter #41

May 18, 2015

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3 books featured in this issue

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Little Kunoichi: The Ninja Girl

by Sanae Ishida

MADE-UP

Our Phinney neighbor Sanae Ishida's debut picture book stars a little ninja so adorable she might almost be a Teletubby. But that doesn't mean she can't wield a throwing star or nunchucks once she lea... (Tom)

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The Odd Woman and the City

by Vivian Gornick

Twenty-eight years after her first memoir, Fierce Attachments, The Odd Woman and the City picks up right where Gornick left off. Not so much in story—it's even less chronological than the first book—t... (Tom)

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The Rise of David Levinsky

by Abraham Cahan

MADE-UP

The Rise of David Levinsky, if it's read at all these days, almost a century after it was written, is usually examined for sociological and historical evidence of Jewish immigrant life at the turn of... (Tom)

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