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On the faculty of our very own campus, Michelle has just released her newest novel, "A Proper Knowledge" Reviews: "The novel counts-in elegant and sometimes elegiac prose-the shadowy and elusive opportunities for redemption."-Ron Carlson, author of "Five Skies" Michelle Latiolais is associate professor and co-director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. Her novel "Even Now" won the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Fiction in 1991.

A Proper Knowledge A Proper Knowledge
by Latiolais, Michelle

"Every passionate reader lives for that first page of a book that alerts her, straightaway, she'll be sorry when the book ends. So it is with Michelle Latiolais' astonishing, sparklingly intelligent new novel...The work strives, with bold zest, to arrive at the marrow of things...Latiolais triumphs, folding the work's clinical ruminations into the story's delicious batter. Powerfully recommended."--Antioch Review

"The novel counts--in elegant and sometimes elegiac prose--the shadowy and elusive opportunities for redemption."--Ron Carlson, author of Five Skies

"A ravishing intelligence is at work in these pages."--Elizabeth Tallent, author of Honey, on Even Now

A gifted psychiatrist, haunted by the death of his young sister, seeks to penetrate the mysteries of childhood autism in this beautifully written, insightful investigation into the misunderstood pathways of the brain--and the heart.

Michelle Latiolais is associate professor and co-director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. Her novel Even Now won the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Fiction in 1991.

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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.

Child 44 Child 44
by Smith, Tom Rob
The remarkable achievement of Child 44 is its invocation of a paranoid, brutal Orwellian domain in which society's moral compass is spinning like a roulette wheel. This snowy, bitter world is realized with cinematic vividness, and the plot maintains a nerve-wracking tension throughout. A great thriller for people who don't always read this genre.--Ken A. White, SFSU Bookstore (San Francisco, CA)
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Created by the American Academy of Poets, National Poetry Month is a perfect time to reflect on the important place of poetry in literature, and renew your appreciation of a good poem!

A Yes-Or-No Answer: Poems A Yes-Or-No Answer: Poems
by Shore, Jane
In her acclaimed collections Happy Family and Music Minus One, Jane Shore traced her life from childhood to coming of age to parenthood. Now, in A Yes-or-No Answer, Shore etches the persistence of the past in a life that has moved into a mature new phase as a member of the baby boom generation. Recalling her Jewish childhood in New Jersey, living in the apartment above the family's clothing store, Shore lovingly imagines her parents, now gone, reunited with relatives over a Scrabble board in the afterlife. The poet's teenage daughter sorts through the "vintage" clothes of her mother's own hippie days. Cherished items left behind -- an address book, a piano, an easy chair, a favorite doll -- continue to haunt the living. The poems in A Yes-or-No Answer dignify memory through precise detail, with a voice that will resonate for a generation at a crossroads.
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Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
by Lam, Andrew
A brilliant first collection of the work of frequent NPR contributor, journalist, and Pacific News Service Editor Andrew Lam. He uses his work over the last two decades to explore his life as an American and to return to his Vietnamese heritage. His truggle and that of a million other Vietnamese expatriates is much the same as many others who belong to two countries. His insights point out the unique situation of today and what it is like to go home.
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Tax Time

Tax deadlines are just around the corner. Consult one of these up-to-date titles and be prepared to file your return like a pro!
Taxes 2008 For Dummies
by Tyson, Eric, Munro, Margaret A., Silverman, David J.
Avoid tax headaches with the book that demystifies forms, minimizes errors, and answers your most important tax questions. Fully updated for 2008 this handy, helpful guide covers critical tax code changes and offers reliable advice on keeping more of what you earn.
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Quote of the Day
"True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics."

- Yevgeny Zamyatin
A Soviet Heretic
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)