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Written by Stephen Schenkenberg   
Thursday, 13 January 2005
A few weeks ago, playbackstl.com published "A Book for Every Stocking," a list of 75 pre-holiday-shopping book recommendations from me to you. The downer was that it was just a title-and-author affair, with no corresponding descriptions. So here now-at the start of a new year (happy that, by the way), when maybe you've scored some Xmas cash, or gift certificates, or just made some sort of New Year's resolution for taking more book recs from people you don't know-I'm offering expanded descriptions of seven of what I all but blood-promise will be rewarding reads. All are highly affordable paperbacks, save the last. Hope you connect with at least one.
 
Alanna Nash:Behind Closed Doors (Cooper Square Press)
Written by Bryan A. Hollerbach   
Saturday, 01 February 2003




 
Carlos Ruiz Zafon: Shadow of the Wind (Penguin Press)
Written by Byron Kerman   
Monday, 28 February 2005

It's no wonder Shadow of the Wind created an addictive phenomenon known as "Zafonmania" in its native Spain and throughout Europe when first published in hardback in 2001. Penguin has just published the paperback edition, giving new juice to the mystery/adventure/romance/coming-of-age bombshell.

 

 

 
Continuum Publishing's 33-1/3 Series: Takes on Albums That Changed Lives
Written by PLAYBACK:stl   
Saturday, 31 January 2004
 
Dolly: The Biography (Cooper Square Press) | Alanna Nash
Written by Bryan A. Hollerbach   
Thursday, 01 May 2003
 
G. Cabrera Infante: Three Trapped Tigers (Dalkey Archive Press)
Written by Stephen Schenkenberg   
Sunday, 31 October 2004
 
Kurt Cobain: Journals (Riverhead Books)
Written by Jessica Gluckman   
Saturday, 01 February 2003

 
Laurell K. Hamilton: Cerulean Sins (Berkley Publishing Group)
Written by Jeffrey Ricker   
Saturday, 01 March 2003


 
Lloyd Kaufman:Make Your Own Damn Movie (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Written by Pete Timmermann   
Thursday, 01 May 2003


 
Mark Bego: Bonnie Raitt: Still in the Nick of Time (Cooper Square Press)
Written by Bryan A. Hollerbach   
Thursday, 01 May 2003


 
Offbeat: Collaborating With Jack Kerouac
Written by Rick Eubanks   
Saturday, 01 February 2003
 
Steve Earle’s Blues by Lauren St. John
Written by Bryan A. Hollerbach   
Saturday, 01 February 2003
 
What Liberal Media:The Truth About Bias and the Media (Basic Books)
Written by Andrew Rea   
Saturday, 01 March 2003
 
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