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"The Choosing of the Jewels," one of the many tapestries shown in "Luxury Arts of the Renaissance," by Marina Belozerskaya (J. Paul Getty Museum, $100)
(Muse Du Moyen Age (Cluny), Paris)
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--Richard Lipez
Her Body Knows: Two Novellas , by David Grossman (FSG). Grossman is a talented writer -- elegant, even luxurious. His new book should win him a wider audience, particularly among readers who appreciate flawless prose and an unsentimental take on family intimacy. --Judy Goldman
The History of Love , by Nicole Krauss (Norton). For much of the novel, young Alma and old Leo seem to run in different orbits, but in the final pages, their fractured stories fall together like a desperate embrace. --RC
Holy Skirts , by Ren Steinke (Morrow). Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven turns up in virtually every history of New York's avant-garde, usually as a nut case. This fascinating novel celebrates the baroness as a remarkable woman. --Wendy Smith
The Hot Kid , by Elmore Leonard (Morrow). The kid of the book's title is on his way to being a legendary lawman. Leonard's Oklahoma is a brave new world where maids and monsters, outlaws and oilmen, strange creatures all act out their dubious destinies. --Patrick Anderson
The Hummingbird's Daughter , by Luis Alberto Urrea (LB). A luminous, loosely biographical novel about a folk heroine, healer and mystical santa for thousands of rural Mexicans in the 1880s. --Joanne Omang
The Hungry Tide , by Amitav Ghosh (HM). A great swirl of political, social and environmental issues, presented through a story that's full of romance, suspense and poetry. --RC
The Icarus Girl , by Helen Oyeyemi (Doubleday). A haunting and suspense-filled story that presents events from the point of view of an 8-year-old who still lives in a world of fairy tales and fantasy. --Heather Hewett
Incendiary , by Chris Cleave (Knopf). A powerful novel, written as a letter to Osama bin Laden by a grieving mother.
--Brigitte Weeks
The Interruption of Everything , by Terry McMillan (Viking). A warm-hearted, largely meditative tale of midlife restlessness in contemporary California --Jabari Asim
Kafka on the Shore , by Haruki Murakami (Knopf). Murakami's spin on the Oedipus myth is daringly original and compulsively readable. --Steven Moore
