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humorously observed essays from the
frontlines of the struggle that is grow-
ing up.
FOR THE BIRD LOVER
In The Birds of Pandemonium
(Algonquin), Michele Raffin, a former
Silicon Valley executive, writes about
founding Pandemonium Aviaries, one
of the largest bird sanctuaries and rare
breeding facilities in the country, with
more than 350 birds representing 40
species. Sixteen pages of full-color
photos show off these magnificent
birds.
FOR THE
ENVIRONMENTALIST
In The Human Age: The World
Shaped by Us (WW. Norton), Diane
Ackerman looks at the impact
humans have had on Earth and also
the things we can do to slow our
"inevitable extinction." Always a poetic
voice, she discusses, among other top-
ics, overpopulation, the energy crisis
and our dependence on technology.
The Hilltop (Scribner) by Assaf
Gavron is an Israeli bestseller and win-
ner of the prestigious Bernstein Prize, an
Israeli literary award for writers age 50
and under. Now released in the U.S., it is
the first Israeli novel to grapple with the
charged issue of settlements in the West
Bank, where two very different broth-
ers attempt to rebuild their lives and
their relationship. Weaving between a
fledgling settlement and the landscapes
of Tel Aviv, New York City and Miami,
the story jumps back and forth between
present day and the brothers' pasts.
Juliana Maio's first novel, City of the
Sun (Greenleaf), is a romantic histori-
cal thriller, set during the early years
of World War II. Her well-drawn char-
acters include an American reporter, a
Jewish refugee, an important German
refugee physicist and a German spy,
along with real-life figures including
King Farouk and William Donovan, the
U.S. lawyer named to form the Office
of the Coordinator of Information (the
predecessor of the OSS and CIA). Her
depiction of Cairo is full of color and
longing.
The Warburg in James Carroll's his-
tory-in-the-form-of-a-novel, Warburg
in Rome (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt),
is David Warburg, an American attorney
assigned to the lives-saving War Refugee
Board in the Italian capital near the end
of World War II. His job is to aid civil-
ian victims of the Nazis and their fellow
Axis powers. Carroll's sweeping tale
features love and betrayal, chastity and
sexuality, and the Holocaust's aftermath,
all in the interplay of the military, politi-
cal and ecclesiastical powers that crossed
FOR THE VOLUNTEER
The year she turned 50, Caryl M.
Stern took on the task of heading
up the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, where
she became responsible for the goal
of reducing the number of children
under age 5 who die from preventable
causes from 19,000 each day to zero.
In I Believe in Zero: Learning from
the World's Children (St. Martin's
Press), she writes as a mother who left
her own family to travel to the poorest
countries in the world — witnessing
the conditions that mothers and chil-
dren survive in, bringing a personal
and emotional perspective to their
stories and inviting readers to see the
world's children as our own.
FOR THE ROAD TRIPPER
The newest entry in the Images of
America series, Grand River Avenue:
From Detroit to Lake Michigan
(Arcadia Publishing) by Jon Milan
and Gail Offen, explores US-16's ever-
changing status — from walking path
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paths in the Eternal City.
The Wall (Random House) — an
epic of survival and redemption and the
final installment of H.G. Adler's Shoah
trilogy (following Panorama and The
Journey), translated from German by
Peter Filkins — draws on Adler's own
experiences in the Holocaust and his
postwar life. It tells the story of Arthur
Landau, survivor of a wartime atrocity, a
man struggling with his nightmares and
memories of his past as he struggles to
build a new life. Adler (1910-1988) has
had his work compared to Joyce, Kafka
and Gertrude Stein.
Brian Morton's Florence Gordon
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is the
story of a feisty feminist icon, now 75,
still teaching and writing and alive with
ideas, still center stage at any gathering
she joins. She is long divorced and living
on New York's Upper West Side in the
summer of 2009, when her son, his wife
and daughter return to New York City
from their home in Seattle. While there's
no discussion of her Judaism or religious
life, Florence is unmistakably Jewish,
as is her intellectual milieu. Morton
unfolds his tale in brief chapters, some
no more than a page, seeing life from
the different characters' points of view.
The Day of Atonement (Random
House), the latest historical thriller by
David Liss, brings to life the relatively
little-known Portuguese Inquisition, as
well as the 1755 earthquake that almost
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