July 2010 Thursday, July 1, 7 p.m. 11 Sunday, July 11, 1 p.m. Saturday, July 17, 6 p.m. Sunday, July 25, 5 Luis Alberto Urrea July1 10 July 10 Brando Skyhorse Gail Dines p.m. 17 25July 10 Into The Beautiful North The Madonnas Of Echo Park Pornland July 10 Laura Browder and (Back Bay, $14.99) (Free Press, $23) (Beacon, $26.95) Sascha Pflaeging Join us for the paperback release This first novel describes a group Dines, professor of sociol- When Janey Comes of the latest novel from the author of The of middle-class Mexican-Americans living ogy and women’s studies and chair of Marching Home Hummingbird’s Daughter. The story begins and working in Los Angeles. When an the American Studies Department at (Univ. of North Carolina, $35) in Tres Camarones, a tiny Mexican village act of senseless violence occurs, each Wheelock College, argues that por- Combining oral history with made even smaller by the departure of its person is affected differently. Skyhorse nography is growing more extreme and color photographs of women men to look for work in the United States. But it’s not so evokes the trauma and its aftermath with great power and more ubiquitous. She ties the increased deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan from all five branches small that drug traffickers ignore it, and when their home compassion. commercialization of degrading and even brutal imagery of the military, this book is a vivid chronicle of women’s is threatened, four Tres Camarones teens go North to bring to Fortune 500 companies and also cites porn’s widespread experience of combat zones. The subjects explain why they their fathers and brothers back. Sunday, July 11, 5 p.m. 11 social effects, such as the ways it distorts sexual norms and joined the service, how they cope with sexism and mother- Carolyn Parkhurst July 10 turns its consumers into porn addicts. hood, and describe their relationships with colleagues and Friday, July 2 – Sunday, July 4 The Nobodies Album the civilians they meet in country. 4th of July Weekend – No events (Doubleday, $25.95) Sunday, July 18, 5 p.m. Patrick Thomas Casey In Parkhurst’s third novel, a writer 18July 10 Monday, July 26, 7 p.m. Monday, July 5, 7 p.m. becomes a detective to solve the murder Our Burden’s Light Marie Arana 26July 10 July5 10 Oren Harman her son is accused of having commit- (St. Martin’s, $25.99) Lima Nights The Price Of Altruism ted. Octavia has been estranged from Casey’s first novel is a powerful (Dial, $15) (W.W. Norton, $27.95) her musician son for several years, but evocation of a Shenandoah town reeling Now in paperback, Arana’s If genes are selfish and each the crime draws them back together. from the murder of a high-school senior. second novel is the story of Carlos and individual is programmed to survive Innovative in form, the story includes pieces of Octavia’s The narrative homes in by turns on the Maria. They meet in 1986; Carlos is and reproduce at nearly any cost, how novel-in-progress, offering a look at the interweaving of dead boy’s family, struggling to stay together; on his class- a married father of two, Maria is an is it that altruism exists? Harman, a real life and imagination. mates, preparing for adulthood; and on the young killers, impoverished 15-year-old dancer. After professor of the history of science at Bar trying to come to grips with what they’ve done. Carlos’s wife gets wind of the affair, she moves out--taking Ilan University, explores this question by profiling George Monday, July 12, 7 p.m. family and possessions with her. Twenty years later, Maria Price, the physical chemist who developed new ideas of 12July 10 David Howard Tuesday, July 20, 7 p.m. still needs Carlos, but the relationship is losing its heat. evolutionary and game theory; trying to help the homeless, Lost Rights William Powers Arana’s is a deftly drawn portrait of both a couple and a Price eventually lost everything, and committed suicide. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26) Hamlet’s Blackberry 20July 10 class-bound society. When the first 10 amendments to (HarperCollins, $24.99) Tuesday, July 6, 7 p.m. the Constitution were ratified in 1789, 14 As technology plays an Tuesday, July 27, 7 p.m. Allegra Goodman 6 David Kirkpatrick July 10 copies of the document were written out by ever-greater role in our lives, 27July 10 The Cookbook Collector hand. One resided in the North Carolina Powers, former Washington Post writer The Facebook Effect (Dial, $26) Statehouse, where it was stolen by a Union and fellow of Harvard’s Shorenstein (Simon & Schuster, $26) Goodman’s acclaimed Intuition infantryman in 1865. Howard, a widely-published journalist Center, argues that we need to balance A senior tech writer at explored the daily life of a cancer research and now editor of Bicycling magazine, traces the path of this the benefits of being connected with deliberate awareness Fortune magazine, Kirkpatrick worked lab, and she brings the same thoroughness long-lost artifact as it passed through a series of hands until of being disconnected. To manage the distractions of the closely with Facebook founder Mark and telling detail to this riveting look at the an FBI sting operation returned it to Raleigh. age of Digital Maximalism, Powers looks back to the great Zuckerberg for this authorized biogra- 1999-2000 dot-com bubble and its after- thinkers, finding in Plato, Shakespeare, Emerson, and oth- phy of the Internet phenomenon that math. The story centers on two sisters, a start-up CEO and a Tuesday, July 13, 7 p.m. ers ideas that cut through today’s incessant buzz. started in a Harvard dorm. Along with charting the site’s philosophy graduate student. Through their relationships with William Antholis and Strobe 13July 10 growth and how it outpaced Friendster and MySpace, the colleagues, friends, and each other, Goodman deftly captures a Talbott Wednesday, July 21, 7 p.m. book considers its social implications, including questions particular period of recent American history. Fast Forward 21July 10 Spencer Wells of privacy. (Brookings Institution, $22.95) Pandora’s Seed Wednesday, July 7, 7 p.m. Talbott, the president of Brookings, (Random House, $26) Wednesday, July 28, 7 p.m. Stefanie Syman Carl Hiaasen 28 July7 10 and Antholis, the managing director, Wells, a geneticist, anthropolo- July 10 The Subtle Body who also served on President Clinton’s gist, and National Geographic Society Star Island (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28) climate-change policy team, argue explorer-in-residence, revisits the climate (Knopf, $26.95) Hiaasen’s Yoga studios today are as that the complexities and the urgency of global warming change of 10,000 years ago that trans- 12th novel is a tale of fame, ubiquitous as gyms or spas, but when the require nations to work together in ways conventional formed nomadic hunter-gatherers into substance abuse, and mistaken identity. practice was introduced to America in the U.N.-style diplomacy is unequipped to handle. a settled civilization of farmers. In his far-reaching and Meaning to kidnap the pop star Cherry th 19 century, it was thought strange and thoughtful meditation on the dark side of this agricultural Pye, an obsessed fan instead abducts even dangerous. Syman, a journalist and long-time yoga Wednesday, July 14, 7 p.m. revolution, the author of The Journey of Man tallies up the Ann, the star’s double. Since Cherry’s adept, recounts yoga’s rising popularity as it spread from 14July 10 Jessie Price editor human cost of “civilization.” public is unaware of her stand-in, the case has to be Emersonian New England to New York, to colonial India, EatingWell On A Budget resolved quietly--a major challenge, given Hiaasen’s rowdy California, and back to New York. with Contributors Thursday, July 22, 7 p.m. cast and their many escapades. (Countryman, $18.95) Eric Jay Dolin 22July 10 Thursday, July 8, 7 p.m. Price, who directs content for the award- Fur, Fortune, And Empire Thursday, July 29, 7 p.m. Susan Coll July8 10 Dave Kindred winning EatingWell magazine, one of (W.W. Norton, $29.95) 29July 10 Beach Week the most reliable sources of science-based Dolin’s Leviathan was a critically Morning Miracle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25) nutrition, has edited this collection of acclaimed history of whaling. In his (Doubleday, $26.95) Perfect beach reading, Coll’s romp of a recipes and tips on buying food, planning menus, and using new chronicle he looks at the North The digital age has put news- novel follows the exploits of a group of leftovers with an eye to making meals that are not only healthful American fur trade from the early 1600s papers under tremendous stress; are they new high-school graduates as they head and cost-conscious, but flavorful, too. Contributors include Price, and the arrival of the Dutch in the New doomed to fade, or do they offer something for the next rite of passage: summer Marisa Stubbs, Yake Argueta, and Liesel Flashenberg World to the dawn of the conservation movement in the that’s still essential? Kindred, a veteran at the shore. The author of Acceptance 19th century. Washington Post journalist who has been in and Rockville Pike keeps things lively with parental angst, Thursday, July 15, 7 p.m. the business for some 40 years, gives a detailed, heart-felt look at romance, controlled substances, and even a peeping Tom.