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Cupcake
by Charise Mericle Harper

It was only a matter of time before the cupcake craze trickled down to childrens' books. Luckily, this sweet book does it right. If you have a 2-5 year-old child in your life, give them this colorful tale of the cupcake finding its perfect topping.

Crazy Like Us: the Globalization of the American Psyche
by Ethan Watters

Here's just the kind of compelling journalism currently threatened by the trouble in the newspaper industry but explored in great depth in this book: it seems America is exporting not only Disney movies and fast food, but our neuroses, diagnoses, and treatments of mental illness. This book looks at four phenomena in proposing its thesis, like the rise of anorexia in Hong Kong and the shifting mask of schizophrenia in Zanzibar.

Way of the World

by Nicolas Bouvier and Thierry Vernet

Bouvier's unpretentious and wonder-filled memoir of a trip he and a friend, the artist Thierry Vernat, took from Geneva to the Khyber Pass in a convertible Fiat in 1953-54, is a masterpiece of travel literature. Permitting themselves a single luxury, slowness, the pair traveled through a now vanished world, and the record of their adventures proves the difference between travelers and tourists. This books gets Green Apple's highest stamp of approval.

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Day Out of Days
by Sam Shepard

While Sam Shepard's newest book is billed as "short stories," it feels more complete than that. There's a unnamed narrator wandering highways and byways, mostly in the American West, stopping in places most people don't, telling stories we need to slow down to hear.

Some of the stories are very short, some are written as poems, but all are unified in Shepard's gravelly alter ego voice. Walter Kirn put it well in his New York Times review: "His words have a flinty, mineral integrity, especially when he describes the people around him, who come off as distinctive individuals but also have an enduring archetypal feel, like the iconic figures in Whitman poems." The book does feel like something between mythology and contemporary fiction. It's not exactly a novel, but all the vignettes, monologues, poems, and images add up to something whole and unique.

If you're up for a long walk down a dusty highway, Day Out of Days is for you.

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