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February 2002

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published February 2002.

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Six Kinds of Sky

by Jodee Taylor

In this collection of short stories, the author takes the reader on a road trip vaster than Jack Kerouac’s and Hunter Thompson’s, encompassing not only different physical countries, but also broad internal nations of the psyche.... Read More

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Business Etiquette

The workplace has certainly changed over the last couple of decades. Gone are business suits with white shirts, offices with doors, and a well-defined hierarchy of who’s who and what’s what. Today, voice mail and electronic mail... Read More

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Henry David's House

by Peggy Beck

One hundred fifty-seven years ago, the author began his celebrated experiment in Concord, Massachusetts. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not... Read More

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The Savvy Networker

Statistics say that people will change jobs ten times in their lifetimes and change careers three to five times. Here’s an audiobook that thoroughly prepares people for these changes. If there’s one distilled message on these two... Read More

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Landscape With Human Figure

by Holly Wren Spaulding

In his forceful long poem in eight parts, “Quatrains for a Shrinking World,“ the author writes: “but I am merely Cuban, dark and small / as any from a hundred nations which / exists for others’ domination.” Later in the poem he... Read More

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Spar

The author’s second book and winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, this volume reads like glossolalia: it’s an ecstatic speaking in tongues. “O verb, o void. Not more loose, but I kept a part back. I ogled the hostels, figured the... Read More

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Passed On

Black folk died in mournful collectives and in disconcerting circumstances. We died in riots and rebellions, as victims of lynching, from executions, murders, police violence, suicides, and untreated or undertreated diseases…the story... Read More

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