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The NBA at 50
by Vancil, Mark
Wanna Be Like Mike..or Bird...or Kareem? First-class books about the NBA shine, and The NBA at 50 is such a book. |
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Making Scrapbooks: Complete Guide to Preserving Your Treasured Memories
by Vanessa-Ann
Preserve and Adorn Your Memories Protecting your memories and making them gorgeous is easy and important. Do it. |
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The Death of Superman
by Various
Can a Superman die? Will we ever find out? Superman dies. Where were you when this happened? Did you catch it on the news? Did you read about it in TIME? |
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
by Verghese, Abraham
AIDS comes to northeastern Tennessee Decreasingly connected to feelings of having vocation of caring for people, doctoring had also largely become detached from risks of contracting diseases for which there is no cure...until AIDS appeared (and increased the fear of risk quite out of proportion to the real increase in risk). |
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Wings: Backstage with Cirque du Soleil
by Vial, Veronique
Reality in the World of Illusion What I like most about the book is how opposite, yet kindred it is to Cirque du Soleil. Cirque is all about light and motion; it is a production, a theatrical spectacle in every way. Wings: Backstage with Cirque du Soleil, on the other hand, is completely shot in black and white; the characters are, for once, still. |
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After Pomp and Circumstance: High School Reunion as an Autobiographical Occasion
by Vinitzky-Seroussi, Vered
If you don't go "home" again, people will still talk The standards of looks, fitness, wealth are not very different than what is valued in high school. |
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After Pomp and Circumstance: High School Reunion As an Autobiographical Occasion
by Vinitzky-Seroussi, Vered
Before there's a "reunion," doesn't there have to have been a union? Staying away does not at all prevent being talked about. To the contrary! Hostile speculations about why you didn't show up seem even more common than hostile interrogations about what you've done with your life. |
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Royal Family, The
by Vollmann, William T.
Pimps, Pushers, and Prostitutes Vollmann depicts the horrific underbelly of American life, part of the American identity we choose to ignore. |
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Atlas, The
by Vollmann, William T.
Vollmann's Grand Gazetteer This collection of literary outtakes shows Vollmann's huge range and depth. |
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Radio On: A Listener's Diary
by Vowell, Sarah
Who Are We? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Vowell delivers some excellent insight into an America that many of us never see through her year-long relationship with the radio. |
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