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Newsletter #66

November 16, 2015

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of I Remember Beirut

I Remember Beirut

by Zeina Abirached

MADE-UP

Zeina Abirached was born into war, Lebanon's civil war that divided its capital, Beirut, in the '80s, and her graphic memoir, drawn in gorgeously blocky blacks and whites that will remind readers of M... (Tom)

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The Fox and the Star

by Coralie Bickford-Smith

MADE-UP

I'm not really sure that this is a kids' book at all. Will little readers or big ones most appreciate its simple fable of courage and friendship and its intricate, exquisite illustrations? "Illustrati... (Tom)

Cover of The Other Paris

The Other Paris

by Luc Sante

TRUE

The Paris Luc Sante loves, like the old, dirty, and dangerous New York he exhumed in his marvelous history Low Life, is not the one you can glimpse from the Eiffel Tower or in the corporate boutiques... (Tom)

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