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Street Smart Date: April 27
La Ciudad Perdida de Z
(The Lost City of Z)
by David Grann
ISBN: 9780307476180
$15.95 Paperback
Vintage Books USA
Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett was the last of a breed of great British explorers who ventured into blank spots on the map with little more than a machete, a compass, and sense of purpose. In 1925, the last great blank spot in the world was the Amazon.
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Street Smart Date: April 27
Los Minutos Negros
(The Black Minutes)
by Martín Solares
ISBN: 9780307475367
$16.00 Paperback
Vintage Books USA
"A breathless, marvelous first novel. . . This is Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest. . . a literary masterpiece masquerading as a police procedural and nothing else I've read this year comes close."--Junot Díaz
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Street Smart Date: May 4
Mis Años con los Yankees
(The Yankee Years)
by Joe Torre & Tom Verducci
ISBN: 9780307476678
$16.95 Paperback
Vintage Books USA
Written as a third-person narrative with Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer Tom Verducci, this thoughtful, utterly honest, and gripping behind-the-scenes account looks at the Yankees' organization from the vantage point of Joe Torre, the most successful baseball manager of the modern era.
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La Zona Verde, Movie Tie-In
(The Green Zone)
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
ISBN: 9780307739490
$15.95 Paperback
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Now a major motion picture starring Matt Damon. "Absolutely brilliant. It is eyewitness history of the first order. . . . It should be read by anyone who wants to understand how things went so badly wrong in Iraq."--The New York Times Book Review
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Street Smart Date: May 4
Sonia Sotomayor: Una Sabia Decisión
(Sonia Sotomayor: A Wise Decision)
by Mario Szichman
ISBN: 9780307739995
$14.00 Paperback
Vintage Books USA
In this timely biography, Mario Szichman and the editors of El Diario la Prensa offer the most comprehensive coverage of the historic ascent of the first Latino to the United States Supreme Court
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