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The Gathering Author: Anne Enright ISBN: 978-0-099-50163-3	A novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars. It lingers in the heart like a piece of haunting music. To read Anne Enright is to be enthralled and moved.

Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News Author: James Winter ISBN: 1-55164-060-0	Far from providing "deomcracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life Author: Amy Krouse Rosenthal	"An ordinary life, perhaps, but an extraordinary book."

The Kite Runner Author: Khaled Hosseini	The Kite Runner" is a novel about friendship, betrayal, and the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, and their lies.

The Rice Mother Author: Rani Manicka	"This is a big, get-lost-in-another-world novel that marks the luminous debut of a writer whose universal themes will touch readers, especially women, the world over."