2007 National Book Critics Circle Award finalists: the National Book Critics Circle Award honors the finest books published in English. Winners will be announced March 6, 2008.FICTION SACRED GAMES | VIKRAM CHANDRA: In modern-day Mumbai, a Sikh police inspector goes head to head with mobster Ganesh Gaitonde--and tales about crime and corruption, Bollywood films, religion, and life's meaning emerge. (*** Mar/Apr 2007) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR (Open System for CommunicAtion in Realtime) AOL's internal project name for AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). The core functions of OSCAR, known as the Basic OSCAR Services (BOS), include Login/Logoff, Locate (find out about other AIM users), Instant Message WAO WAO World Allergy Organization WAO Women's Aid Organisation (Malaysia) WAO Wet Air Oxidation WAO Wild Animal Orphanage WAO World Autism Organisation WAO Women's American ORT WAO Workshop on Accelerator Operations | JUNOT DIAZ: A nerdy Dominican American living in New Jersey and his Dominican mother and sister find that their stories are inextricably in·ex·tri·ca·ble adj. 1. a. So intricate or entangled as to make escape impossible: an inextricable maze; an inextricable web of deceit. b. tied to unhappiness caused by an enduring curse on their family. (**** SELECTION Nov/Dec 2007) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN | HISHAM MATAR: In 1979 Tripoli, a boy witnesses his best friend's father being beaten and taken away by Qaddafi's Revolutionary Army. Then his own father disappears. (**** SELECTION May/June 2007) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE GRAVEDIGGER'S DAUGHTER | JOYCE CAROL OATES Noun 1. Joyce Carol Oates - United States writer (born in 1938) Oates : When the Schwarts escape Nazi Germany and settle in upstate New York Upstate New York is the region of New York State north of the core of the New York metropolitan area. It has a population of 7,121,911 out of New York State's total 18,976,457. Were it an independent state, it would be ranked 13th by population. , the family suffers more tragedies, and the daughter reinvents herself in order to survive. (**** Sept/Oct 2007) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE SHADOW CATCHER | MARIANNE WIGGINS: In this historical novel, two stories merge: that of 20th-century photographer Edward Curtis and that of the author's own present life. (**** Sept/Oct 2007) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NONFICTION AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM transcendentalism, American literary and philosophical movement transcendentalism (trăn'sĕndĕn`təlĭzəm) [Lat. | PHILIP GURA: The 19th-century transcendentalists--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, George Ripley, Theodore Parker, and others--influenced wide-ranging thought and social reform in America. (**** page 62) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHAT HATH GOD Wrought The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 | DANIEL WALKER HOWE: Between the War of 1812 and the conquest of Mexico in 1848, the size of the United States doubled, a communications and transportation revolution took place, Protestantism spurred reform movements, and the meaning of democracy came under question. (**** page 65) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MEDICAL APARTHEID: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present | HARRIET A. WASHINGTON: Before the infamous Tuskegee experiment between the 1930s and the 1970s, in which the U.S. Public Health Service studied but failed to treat black men with syphilis, theories from eugenics eugenics (y  jĕn`ĭks), study of human genetics and of methods to improve the inherited characteristics, physical and mental, of the human race. to
Social Darwinism led to medical abuses and experimentation on Black
Americans.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LEGACY OF ASHES THE HISTORY OF THE CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). | TIM TIM Timothy TIM Technical Interchange Meeting TIM Transient Intermodulation Distortion TIM Time Is Money TIM The Invisible Man (movie) TIM Telecom Italia Mobile (Italian cellular provider) WEINER: Starting with its creation during the Truman administration, the CIA has treaded a fine line between effective intelligence gathering and political expedience ex·pe·di·ence n. Expediency. Noun 1. expedience - the quality of being suited to the end in view expediency , often with disastrous consequences. (**** SELECTION Sept/Oct 2007) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE WORLD WITHOUT US | ALAN WEISMAN: What will become of human works if we suddenly disappeared from the planet? With people gone, Manhattan's subways will collapse in 20 years, and the world's fisheries will recover quickly. But our most enduring legacy will likely be the tons of plastic produced. (*** Nov/Dec 2007) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AUTOBIOGRAPHY HEART LIKE WATER Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone | JOSHUA CLARK: Clark, who refused to leave his French Quarter apartment during Hurricane Katrina, relates how he and his girlfriend, together with others, evaded evacuation--and reveals the tragedy's horrors and ultimate hopes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BROTHER, I'M DYING | EDWIDGE DANTICAT: Framed by her pregnancy and her father's illness, Danticat's memoir explores her family's turbulent and tragic history, both in Haiti and in the United States. (**** Nov/Dec 2007) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE JOURNAL OF JOYCE CAROL OATES 1973-1982 | JOYCE CAROL OATES: The prolific author reflects on her discipline, the genesis of her novels, her marriage, and her relationships with contemporary authors. In sum, her journal is a portrait of an intense, unusual literary artist. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WRITING IN AN AGE OF SILENCE | SARA PARETSKY: Best known for her female private investigator V. I. Warshawski Victoria Iphigenia “Vic” Warshawski is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Sara Paretsky. She is a gritty Chicago private investigator. Nearly every novel and short story in the series is written with V.I. , Paretsky reflects on her childhood, her political and social activism, her feminism, and the inspiration for her crime fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A RUSSIAN DIARY A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia | ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA: A Russian journalist who was murdered in 2006, Politkovskaya was fearless in her reporting. In her criticism of Putin's abuses, the Russian government's corruption, and the war in Chechnya, she offers readers a clearer portrait of Russia under Putin. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BIOGRAPHY STANLEY: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer | TIM JEAL: Henry Morton Stanley Sir Henry Morton Stanley, born John Rowlands (January 28, 1841 – May 10, 1904), was a journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. may have collaborated with King Leopold II of Belgium, but this examination of his life reveals his other sides--his immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. to America and his assimilation there, his romances, and his amazing African travels. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EDITH EDITH Exit Drills In The Home (Fire Prevention) EDITH European Development on Indexing Techniques for Databases with Multidimensional Hierarchies WHARTON | HERMIONE LEE: In Gilded Age Gilded Age The years between the Civil War and World War I when institutions undertook financial manipulations that went virtually unchecked by government. This era produced many infamous activities in the security markets. New York, the fiercely independent Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence) turned to writing to escape an unhappy marriage and society; she later went to Paris to live life on her own terms. (**** July/Aug 2007) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RALPH ELLISON | ARNOLD RAMPERSAD: The author of Invisible Man, about identity and racial tension in mid-century America, was as elusive, and at times nearly as volatile, as the unnamed narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. of his masterpiece. (**** July/Aug 2007) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A LIFE OF PICASSO The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 | JOHN RICHARDSON: In the third of a projected four-volume series, Richardson captures the prodigious talent and limitless (and legendary) appetites of an influential artist approaching the height of his powers. (**** page 56) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THOMAS HARDY | CLAIRE TOMALIN: Tomalin explores how the English author became a novelist and a poet against the backdrop of his painful marriage, his travels, and his social interactions. Although an enigmatic figure, Hardy remains one of our beloved writers, both Victorian and modernist. 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