November caps off the Fall 2011 new book releases with some highly anticipated titles including Stephen King's time travel novel, 11/22/1963, the conclusion to Gregory Maguire's Wicked series, and Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs.
1. 11/22/1963 by Stephen King
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What if you could go back in time? Back to a November day in Dallas in 1963 to prevent the assasination of John F. Kennedy - that's the goal of English teacher Jake Epping, the protagonist in Stephen King's time travel novel, 11/22/63.
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What if you could go back in time? Back to a November day in Dallas in 1963 to prevent the assasination of John F. Kennedy - that's the goal of English teacher Jake Epping, the protagonist in Stephen King's time travel novel, 11/22/63.
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2. The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo's first ever story collection, The Angel Esmeralda, is comprised of nine stories set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white collar prison, and space, featuring divergent protagonists - nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists, and travelers.
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Don DeLillo's first ever story collection, The Angel Esmeralda, is comprised of nine stories set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white collar prison, and space, featuring divergent protagonists - nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists, and travelers.
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3. Blue Nights by Joan Didion
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In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion recounted the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. In Blue Nights, she chronicles the untimely death, shortly after that of her husband, of her daughter Quintana.
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In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion recounted the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. In Blue Nights, she chronicles the untimely death, shortly after that of her husband, of her daughter Quintana.
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4. Higher Gossip: Essays and Criicism by John Updike
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Knopf
Nearly 100 pieces collected from John Updike's files after his death in 2009, Higher Gossip includes poetry, short fiction, literary reviews, and art criticism, all bearing the eloquence of prose for which John Updike was famous.
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Nearly 100 pieces collected from John Updike's files after his death in 2009, Higher Gossip includes poetry, short fiction, literary reviews, and art criticism, all bearing the eloquence of prose for which John Updike was famous.
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5. On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda
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Princeton University Press
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael Dirda, a lifelong Sherlock Holmes fan, combines a memoir of his life as a reader of Arthur Conan Doyle's work and a member of The Baker Street Irregulars - a famous Sherlock Holmes appreciation society - with a biography of Conan Doyle himself.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael Dirda, a lifelong Sherlock Holmes fan, combines a memoir of his life as a reader of Arthur Conan Doyle's work and a member of The Baker Street Irregulars - a famous Sherlock Holmes appreciation society - with a biography of Conan Doyle himself.
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6. Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years by Gregory Maguire
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Morrow
The conclusion to Gregory Maguire's Wicked series, Out of Oz revisits the Land of Oz, now embroiled in war between the Emerald City and Munchkinland.
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The conclusion to Gregory Maguire's Wicked series, Out of Oz revisits the Land of Oz, now embroiled in war between the Emerald City and Munchkinland.
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7. Steve Jobs (Biography) by Walter Isaacson
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Simon & Schuster
Walter Isaacson, who wrote bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, has written a definitive biography of a man whose creative vision revolutionized computing, movies, and multimedia.
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Walter Isaacson, who wrote bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, has written a definitive biography of a man whose creative vision revolutionized computing, movies, and multimedia.
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