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Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend) by Hopkinson, Deborah, Hendrix, John Just in time for the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth comes this ingenious picture book. In the year 1816, seven-year-old Abe and his pal, 10-year-old Austin, journey down to Knob Creek. The water looks scary and deep, and neither boy knows how to swim. Full color.

Back in March we wrote about the great pleasure of getting "lost in a book," and we asked folks on our email list to tell us about books they have really gotten lost in. Here are some of the titles that our customers recommended.

Looking for fascinating, absorbing, reading? Browse the following pages.

And email us with your own suggestions—there's always room for more good reading!

Title of Event: Michael Bellows
When: Thursday, July 9, 2009 7:00 PM
Location: Regulator Bookshop
Description: Michael Bellows will discuss and sign copies of his new book, Cuba Information Manual: The Definitive Guide to Legal and Illegal Travel to Cuba. If you are considering travel to Cuba, this book offers indispensable, intelligent information. It is "the only guide that answers every burning question about travel to America's most forbidden destination," writes Christopher Kush, Voltaire Books.
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Infidel by Hirsi Ali, Ayaan, Hitchens, Christopher In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of "The Caged Virgin, " Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West. One of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following an Islamist's murder of her colleague, Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the movie "Submission." "Infidel" is the eagerly awaited story of the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished -- and sometimes reviled -- political superstar and champion of free speech. With a gimlet eye and measured, often ironic, voice, Hirsi Ali recounts the evolution of her beliefs, her ironclad will, and her extraordinary resolve to fight injustice done in the name of religion. Raised in a strict Muslim family and extended clan, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries largely ruled by despots. In her early twenties, she escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim immigrant women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament. Even though she is under constant threat -- demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from her family and clan -- she refuses to be silenced. Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali's story tells how a bright little girl evolved out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no story could be timelier or more significant.

Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Mandanipour, Shahriar, Khalili, Sara Shahriar Mandanipour, an Iranian film critic and the editor of a literary journal in Iran, was not allowed to publish fiction from 1992 to 1997. He came to the United States in 2006. "Censoring an Iranian Love Story" is his first book published in English. In this novel, a writer (also named Shahriar Mandanipour and the author's alter ego) tries to write the story of Sara and Dara, a young couple in love, and finds himself in a metaphorical burka. He is forced to change his story, characters and dialogue to comply with the restrictions of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in the person of a Dostoevskian character, Mr. Petrovich. "I am an Iranian writer tired of writing dark and bitter stories," he tells his reader, "stories populated by ghosts and dead narrators with predictable endings of death and destruction. I am a writer who at the threshold of fifty has understood that the purportedly real world around us has enough death and destruction and sorrow, and that I did not have the right to add even more defeat and hopelessness to it with my stories." …Things are crossed out, political and sexual, that will prevent his book from being published. He finds soaring metaphors to replace simple, yet offensive actions. "In each other's eyes they read many unspoken and unthinkable words," begins one section, and then the following, crossed out: "words of repressed yearnings and desires. And in each other's eyes they see images of forbidden words, words such as 'kiss,' 'pomegranate,' 'milk and honey,' and 'oyster.'…While the writer is fascinated and forced to be creative, the lovers are frustrated and afraid…A "perfect and beautiful story," [Mandanipour] warned his censor, "is the most dangerous story." – Reviewed in the L.A. Times

Sonata Mulattica: A Life in Five Movements and a Short Play by Dove, Rita The Diane Rehm Show, May 5, 2009 Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove is known for exploring history, race and culture. She discusses her latest collection of poetry which tells the true story of a forgotten biracial violinist who inspired Beethoven.