Philip Oakes

• Collected Stories
  Author: Bellow, Saul
  Publisher: Viking $ 30 ISBN: 0670894869 Date:2001
  Kirkus PW
  This collection of short fiction is both a handsome anthology Bellow's avid readers will treasure and a superb introduction to those unacquainted with his genius.
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• Ravelstein
  Author: Bellow, Saul
  Publisher: Viking $ 24.95 ISBN: 067084134x Date:2000
  Booklist Kirkus PW | Booklist Editors' Choice | NYTBR Notable
  A brilliant professor and his friend share a celebratory trip to Paris where they explore thoughts on mortality, philosophy, history, old suits, and friends old and new. The mood of this journey turns more somber once they return home and the professor succumbs to AIDS.
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• The Actual
  Author: Bellow, Saul
  Publisher: Viking $ 17.95 ISBN: 0670860751 Date: 1997
  Kirkus LJ PW | NYTBR Notable
  new work of uncompromising purity by a Nobel Laureate. Chicagoan Harry Trellman, the narrator of this novella, has made his money and has now become a "first-class noticer". Rich, old Sigmund Adeltsky finds this out when he invites Harry to one of his salons, notices Trellman noticing all of Adeltsky's "commonplace" characters, and engages him to join the Adeltsky "Brain Trust".
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• Novels 1944-1953: Dangling Man/The Victim/The Adventures of Angie March
  Author: Bellow, Saul
  Publisher: Library of America $ 35 ISBN: 1931082383 Date:2003
  LJ
  Bellow's rare talent has earned critical accolades, including the Nobel Prize. Now, in a collector's edition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the classic The Adventures of Augie March, readers will rediscover the novels that laid the foundation for Bellow's towering career.
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• Edcuation of a Felon: A Memoir
  Author: Bunker, Edward
  Publisher: St Martins $ 25.95 ISBN: 031225315x Date: 2000
  Booklist PW
  Spending half of his life behind bars, the reigning champion of prison writers tells his own story of a life lived "close to the bone" ("Los Angeles Times").
  Also: Little Boy Blue, 1997
  From the undisputed master of the genre comes the story of a young hoodlum's coming of age. As Alex is pulled between well-meaning but exhausted social workers and viciously cruel authority figures, his emotions and actions are forever careening off of these two disparate influences. One constant remains: his no-good, criminally-minded peers, who are all too ready to plant illegal ideas in a young intelligent mind that's already well on its way to social deviancy. Updated 12.27.05
• Dog Eat Dog
  Author: Bunker, Edward
  Publisher: St Martins $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312143141 Date: 1996
  Booklist PW
  Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting to civilian life under the new California "three strikes" law. One more hit, one more jackpot, and they'll all be satisfied.
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• Bagthorpes Liberated
  Author: Cresswell, Helen
  Publisher: Atheneum $ 14.95 ISBN: 0027254410 Date:1989
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  Upon returning from a vacation, the members of the eccentric Bagthorpe family find chaos as a tramp takes over their house, their maid disappears, and the demonic Cousin Daisy arrives with her pet goat.
  Grade Level: 4-7
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• Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths: A Critical Inquiry
  Author: Deloria, Vine
  Publisher: Fulcrum $ 24.95 ISBN: 155911595 Date: 2002
  Booklist
  Also: Custer Died for Your Sins, 1969
  It seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria's "Manifesto" for some time to come, before we absorb his special, ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us, with a great deal of humor, about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists. This book continues to be required reading for all Americans, whatever their special interest. - Publisher Marketing.
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• Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management
  Author: Drucker, Peter and others
  Publisher:Harvard $ 19.95 ISBN:0875848818 Date: 1998
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• Managing in a Time of Great Change
  Author: Drucker, Peter
  Publisher: Truman Talley $ 24.95 ISBN: 0525940537 Date: 1995
  Kirkus | Choice Outstanding Books
  A new, exciting, wide-ranging guide for navigating the rapids-strewn course that will take the American economy into the 21st century, Managing in a Time of Great Change covers such issues as the U.S. economy's profound and rapid power shift, competition in the global economy, and ways to develop new international markets.
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• Post-Capitalist Society
  Author: Drucker, Peter
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25 ISBN: 0887306209 Date: 1993
  Booklist LJ
  Bestselling author Drucker now provides a searching and incisive analysis of the major world transformation now taking place--from the Age of Capitalism to the Knowledge Society--and shows how the new global landscape will radically affect society, politics, and business now and in the years ahead. Drucker also authored The New Realities.
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• Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt
  Author: Egolf, Tristan
  Publisher: Grove $ 24 ISBN: 0802116418 Date: 1999
  Booklist LJ
  A manic, inventive, and painfully funny debut novel about a town's dirty laundry--and a garbagemen's strike that lets it all hang out.
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• The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
  Author: Eisner, Will
  Publisher: Norton $ 19.95 ISBN: 0393060454 Date: 2005
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  Eisner, the great American master of comics, has undertaken what he regards as his most powerful work yet. The Plot examines the outrageous fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which purports to be the actual blueprint by Jewish leaders to take over the world.
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• Pillars of Gold
  Author: Ellis, Alice Thomas
  Publisher: Moyer Bell $ 22.95 ISBN: 1559212845 Date: 2000
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  Deeply unhappy with her family, her life, and her world, Scarlet confides in Constance, her friend and neighbor who runs in dubious circles of borderline criminals. Constance's life is complicated by an on-again, off-again liaison with a Turk named Mehmet. When their neighbor Barbs disappears, both women are forced to reassess their convictions -- and their lives. - Publisher Marketing
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• The 27th Kingdom
  Author: Ellis, Alice Thomas
  Publisher: Moyer Bell $ 22.95 ISBN: 1559212500 Date: 1999
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  Tucked away in secret chambers in London's Chelsea, a mannered Russian emigre and her nephew are visited by a ghost in the shape of a young postulant on leave from a convent in Wales.
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• The Sin Eater
  Author: Ellis, Alice Thomas
  Publisher: Moyer Bell $ 22.95 ISBN: 1559212578 Date: 1998
  Kirkus
  A family patriarch lies on his deathbed surrounded by his bickering children in this clever tale of wit and malice written by the acclaimed author of Fairy Tale and The Inn at the Other Side of the World.
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• A Welsh Childhood
  Author: Ellis, Alice Thomas
  Publisher: Moyer Bell $34.95 ISBN: 1559211989 Date: 1997
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  For Alice Thomas Ellis, Wales was a magical place of unrestricted freedom and exploration. Through her recollections, the acclaimed novelist evokes the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape along with its history, legends, and people. Patrick Sutherland's 90 black-and-white images complement the text and make this shared journey even more compelling.
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• Wormholes: Essays and Occaisional Writings
  Author: Fowles, John
  Publisher: Holt $ 25 ISBN: 0805058672 Date: 1998
  Booklist | NYTBR Notable
  Divided into four sections--Writing and the Self, Culture and Society, Literature and Literary Criticism, and Nature and the Nature of Nature--Wormholes contains 30 pieces, dating from 1963 to the present, which reflect on Fowles' views on the art of fiction and on the relationship of literature to life.
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• The Journals: 1949-1965
  Author: Fowles, John
  Publisher: Knopf $ 35 ISBN: 1400044316 Date: 2005
  Booklist
  This firsthand account of the years before Fowles achieved recognition reads with all the emotional power and narrative complexity of his novels, providing invaluable insight into the relationship between Fowles' life and his work.
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• Princess Furball
  Author: Huck, Charlotte & Anita Lobel (ilt)
  Publisher:Greenwillow $ 16 ISBN: 0688078370 Date: 1989
  SLJ
  Huck's elegant retelling of this variation of the Cinderella theme, accompanied by Lobel's radiant illustrations, contains all the ingredients that make fairy tales the timeless favorites they will always be. Full-color illustrations.
  Grade Levels: Preschool - 3
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• Candyland: A Novel in Two Parts
  Author: Evan Hunter/Ed McBain
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 0743213165 Date: 2001
  PW
  Written from the point of view of a man obsessed, the first, fever-paced half of this two-part novel is classic Evan Hunter and ends in a late night confrontation in a mid-town bordello. The next morning, in the book's second section, the story is picked up by Ed McBain, the celebrated inventor and master of the modern police procedural. This masterpiece combines the bestselling styles of two authors into one powerful, sexy, and shocking crime story.
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• Criminal Conversation
  Author: Hunter, Evan
  Publisher: Warner $ 21.95 ISBN: 0446517550 Date: 1994
  PW
  An explosive and erotic novel of psychosexual suspense from bestselling author Evan Hunter--penned with all the excitement of the world-famous Ed McBain mysteries. This dangerous tale tells of a young and ambitious district attorney who almost nails a mob leader for murder when the truth comes terribly close to home.
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• Mainly About Lindsay Anderson
  Author: Lambert, Gavin
  Publisher: Knopf $ 29.95 ISBN: 0679445986 Date: 2000
  Booklist | NYTBR Notable
  A biography of British theater director and filmmaker Lindsay Anderson, whosefilms include The Sporting Life, If, and O Lucky Man!
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• Norma Shearer: A Life
  Author: Lambert, Gavin
  Publisher:Knopf $ 24.95 ISBN: 0394551583 Date: 1990
  Kirkus
  A richly told biography of the Hollywood star--"MGM's queen of the lot"--who came to embody elegance and sophisticated charm on the screen of the 1930's and 40's.
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• The Balloon Man
  Author: MacLeod, Charlotte
  Publisher: Mysterious $ 23 ISBN: 0892966572 Date: 1998
  PW | SLJ Best Books for Young Adults
  A family wedding gone awry sets the pace in this deliciously deadly Sarah Kelling/Max Bittersohn mystery from multiple-award-winning author Charlotte MacLeod.
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• Fiddlers: A Novel of the 87th Precinct
  Author: McBain, Ed
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 25 ISBN: 0151012164 Date: 2005
  Booklist LJ
  The latest installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who doesn't fit the profile. It falls to Detective Steve Carella and his colleagues to find out what or whom the victims had in common before another body is found.
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• The Last Dance: A Novel of the 87th Precinct
  Author: McBain, Ed
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 0684855135 Date:2004
  Kirkus PW | NYTBR Notable | PW Best Books
  Following the success of The Big Bad City, crime fiction master author McBain delivers a new, gritty and witty depiction of life and death in the 87th Precinct.
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• The Big Bad City: A Novel of the 87th Precinct
  Author: McBain, Ed
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 0684855127 Date: 1999
  PW | PW Best Books
  Ed McBain, a master of the tough and funny urban cop thriller, returns with this latest, witty, wry depiction of life and death in the 87th Precinct.
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• The Last Best Hope
  Author: McBain, Ed
  Publisher: Warner $ 30 ISBN: 0446519901 Date: 1998
  Booklist PW
  The latest entry in the bestselling Matthew Hope series. When Jill Callahan hires Florida attorney Matthew Hope to locate her missing husband, she has two things on her mind: divorce and plenty of alimony. As Hope delves deeper, he finds that the case has a little of everything. In fact, it could be the best case of his career--and quite possibly his last.
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• Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear
  Author: McBain, Ed
  Publisher: Warner $ 30 ISBN: 0446519898 Date: 1996
  Kirkus
  Matthew Hope's 12th adventure, his most spine-tingling to date, begins with a simple case of copyright infringement: Lainie Commins, a designer of children's toys, engages him in a her suit against her old employers, Brett and Etta Toland of Toyland over the rights to Gladly, a teddy bear with crossed eyes. But when millionaire Brett Toland is shot, things begin to spin out of control.
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• There Was a Little Girl
  Author: McBain, Ed
  Publisher: Warner $ 30 ISBN: 0446517399 Date: 1994
  Kirkus PW
  The popular Matthew Hope is back in his 11th murder mystery from bestselling Ed McBain, one of the best-known names in contemporary suspense. Matthew sinks into a coma after being shot twice in the ghetto district. His friends, private eye Warren Chambers and cop Morris Bloom, investigate and soon find themselves in a murky circus underworld of offbeat sex, drugs, blackmail and murder.
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• Mischief: A Novel of the 87th Precinct
  Author: McBain, Ed
  Publisher: Morrow $ 20 ISBN: 0688102212 Date: 1993
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  In his first appearance since Eight Black Horses in 1985, the nemesis of the 87th Precinct, the Deaf Man, returns with a vengeance. While Steve Carella and Detective Brown try to second guess him, he meticulously puts together his plan to pull off a multimillion-dollar coup.
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• Mary, Mary
  Author: McBain, Ed
  Publisher: Warner $ 30 ISBN: 0446517380 Date: 1993
  PW
  Florida criminal attorney Matthew Hope never takes a case unless he is personally convinced of the innocence of the client. And retired schoolteacher Mary Barton--known to her neighbors as "Mary, Mary, quite contrary"--isn't the easiest of women to believe in. McBain's fabulously popular Matthew Hope series takes another twisted turn into hideous mutilation and murder.
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• Kiss: A Novel of the 87th Precinct
  Author: McBain, Ed
  Publisher: Morrow $ 17 ISBN: 0688102204 Date: 1992
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  From the nationally bestselling author of Vespers and Widows, a masterfully plotted, razor-sharp suspense novel. Detective Steve Carella is faced with a wealthy blonde sporting a beautiful body and two attempts on her life. Her stockbroker husband has hired protection for her but nothing is as it seems in this thriller.
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• Alice in Jeopardy
  Author: McBain, Ed
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 0743262506 Date: 2005
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  Since her husband's tragic death, Alice Glendenning has struggled to maintain a normal life. Things turn nightmarish when her children disappear, and the ransom demand is identical to the amount due from insurance after her husband's death.
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• Hark: A Novel of the 87th Precinct
  Author: McBain, Ed
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 24.95 ISBN: 0743250354 Date: 2004
  Booklist PW
  In the "New York Times" bestselling author's gripping new novel, the detectives of the 87th Precinct must scramble to foil the Deaf Man's ingeniously meticulous scheme and stop him from committing the perfect crime.
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• The King of the Nighcap
  Author: Murray, William
  Publisher: Bantam $ 16.95 ISBN: 0553053922 Date: 1989
  Kirkus
  Shifty Lou Anderson, magician and horse player extraordinaire, goes south of the border in search of a pilfered payoff and uncovers a scam involving a porn movie king, stolen antiquities, a spunky girl jockey, and a bowed horse with one great race left.
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• Perfidia
  Author: Rossner, Judith
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385484275 Date: 1997
  Kikrus | NYTBR Notable
  In her strongest novel in years, the author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar reveals the complex and intense undercurrents of hostility and competition that flow beneath every mother-daughter relationship.
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• Olivia or the Weight of the Past
  Author: Rossner, Judith
  Publisher: Crown $ 23 ISBN: 0517597209 Date: 1994
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  Life looks good for Caroline Ferrante, a charismatic, irreverant cooking teacher who has just landed her own TV show. But Caroline's past seems determined to undermine her future. The popular author of the epochal hits Looking for Mr. Goodbar and August returns with a New York story of mothers and daughters, food as metaphor, and--of course--love.
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• His Little Women
  Author: Rossner, Judith
  Publisher: Summit $ 19.45 ISBN: 0671648586 Date:1990
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• Spanish Recognitions: The Roads to the Present
  Author: Settle, Mary Lee
  Publisher: Norton $ 24.95 ISBN: 0393020274 Date:2004
  Kirkus
  A book of discovery, in which the landscape of Spain, its history, and its people flow together, each explaining the other. Winner of a National Book Award for fiction and author of an acclaimed book of travel and history on Turkey, Settle brings to her task the visual equivalent of perfect pitch.
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• I, Roger Williams: A Fragment of Autobiography
  Author: Settle, Mary Lee
  Publisher: Norton $ 24.95 ISBN: 0393049051 Date: 2001
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  Banished by his fellow colonists in the dead of winter, Roger Williams endured years of exile among the Narragansett Indians and narrates this tumultuous tale in the peaceful last years of his life. In this panorama of war and love, the reader finds the freedom of conscience is an idea worth dying for.
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• Choices
  Author: Settle, Mary Lee
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 24.95 ISBN: 038547699X Date: 1995
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  A narrative borne on the exhilarating currents of memory, Choices is the story of a courageous woman who puts compassion ahead of society's expectations of her. When her father kills himself during the Depression, so that the family can live on his insurance money, Melinda realizes that she will not be happy leading the genteel life and joins the Red Cross.
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• Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place
  Author: Settle, Mary Lee
  Publisher: Prentice Hall $ 19.95 ISBN: 0139176756 Date: 1991
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  After a twenty-year absence, Mary Lee Settle returns to the land she calls the happiest home she has ever known. A land of intersecting continents, cultures, and contradictions, Turkey beckons her on a cross-country journey, in search of the country's soul--a personal odyssey into history, legend, rumor, and myth.
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• Charley Bland
  Author: Settle, Mary Lee
  Publisher: FSG $ 18.95 ISBN: 0374120781 Date: 1989
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• In Pursuit of a Vanishing Star
  Author: Sobin, Gustaf
  Publisher: Norton $ 23.95 ISBN: 0393042049 Date: 2002
  LJ
  Drawing on the legendary life of Greta Garbo, Gustaf Sobin spins a masterful tale about the enigmatic nature of idolatry.
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• The Fly-Truffler
  Author: Sobin, Gustaf
  Publisher: Norton $ 19.95 ISBN: 0393048322 Date: 2000
  Kirkus LJ
  Through his whole life, Philippe Cabassac has fly-truffled--stalking the flies that lay their eggs directly over the tasty truffles. But after his wife's death, the truffles represent more than a delicacy; they open up a dream world where Philippe often visits his deceased spouse.
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• Incident at Twenty-Mile
  Author: Trevanian
  Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312192339 Date: 1998
  Kirkus
  The author of such bestsellers as The Eiger Sanction and Shibumi returns with a brilliant foray into a new genre. Set at the turn of the last century, Incident at Twenty Mile tells a compellingly dark and dirty story of the Old West, but packed with all of the chills, thrills, and improbably coincidences readers love.
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• Without a Name and Under the Tongue
  Author: Vera, Yvonne
  Publisher: FSG $ 13 ISBN: 0374528160 Date: 2002
  LJ
  Yvonne Vera's novels chronicle the lives of Zimbabwean women with extraordinary power and beauty. Without a Name and Under the Tongue, her two earliest novels, are set in the seventies during the guerrilla war against the white government. - Publisher Marketing.
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