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Newsletter #56

September 7, 2015

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3 books featured in this issue

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A Tower of Giraffes: Animals in Groups

by Anna Wright

MADE-UP

I'll confess some skepticism toward those "remarkable" collective nouns for animals you see lists of everywhere. A "gaggle" of geese? Fine, that's in my OED. But a "prickle" of hedgehogs or an "ostent... (Tom)

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Live at the Apollo

by Douglas Wolk

TRUE Phinney by Post #9

I love the 33 1/3 series of little books, each on a single record album (we have a sizable stack of them in the store), but this one is easily my favorite, even though I had never heard the record it'... (Tom)

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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

by Steve Silberman

To say any book is "the book" on a complex condition like autism is absurd, and for someone like me, with no personal or professional expertise on the subject, to say it is more so. But NeuroTribes su... (Tom)

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