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January 2000

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published January 2000.

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Saints

“Saints are venerated not because they are essentially different from us but because they are essentially the same,” writes Bonfante-Warren in her introduction. The stories here continually remind readers of this. They show fallible... Read More

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Girl with a Monkey

by Marjory Raymer

In his introduction to this collection of sixteen short stories, the author says he has imagined his work as literary experimentation: “I fancied what I was doing, in form, not subjects, a little of what others were doing in music,... Read More

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More Than Sex

by Erik Bledsoe

Based upon the anecdotes that he tells from his own practice, Smith seems like the type of physician that is too often missing in these accelerated times: one who talks and, more importantly, listens to his patients, often uncovering the... Read More

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The Loki Project

by Rich Wertz

For personal glory and to save his country from destruction, Maximilian Lamm, professor of physics in Nazi Germany, wants to build an atomic bomb. Contemptuous of Nazis and their fixation on absurd racial theories, he nevertheless joins... Read More

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Dancing in the Street

by Edward Morris

Motown Records is an American success story and an African American triumph. To Smith, however, the fabled enterprise symbolizes a great deal more. The assistant professor of history at George Mason University argues that Motown not only... Read More

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Viennese Types

by Karen Wyckoff

Frozen in the noiseless still of time, the photographs of Dr. Emil Mayer find their tongues in the softened cobblestone of Viennese streets and the faded eyes of market goers to articulate the modest opulence of their humanity. Viennese... Read More

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