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"  Color Lines\u2014and Lies Alice Randall&amp;#039;s Rebel Yell (Bloomsbury) addresses race, class, backroom politics, and family intrigue through the intellectual yet heart-smart lens of Harvard-educated African-American Hope Jones Blackshear. Traveling between her native Nashville and Rome, Blackshear faces down facts and fictions of her own past that parallel the tumult of America&amp;#039;s first postmillennial decade.   A Little Night Music Master storyteller Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go) is also a brilliant stylist. Fresh proof arrives in the Booker Prize\u2013winner&amp;#039;s Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (Knopf), elegant and engaging linked tales of men and women for whom music provides the meaning and the magic, as well as the mayhem, that shape their lives.  Passages to the Past Ambitious, thought-provoking, and comprehensive, A New Literary History of America (Harvard), edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, features more than 200 essays on poems, letters, novels, memoirs, speeches, movies, and theater, by writers ranging from Bharati Mukherjee to John Edgar Wideman, reinterpreting the American experience from the 1500s forward. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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