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...production - a hardcover with a die-cut dust-jacket that lets a character peek through from the cover. Instead, "Persepolis" (153 pp.; $17.95) will zap you with its story. A memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran, "Persepolis" provides a unique glimpse into a nearly unknown and unreachable way of life. It has the strange quality of a note in a bottle written by a shipwrecked islander. That Satrapi chose to tell her remarkable story as a gorgeous comicbook makes "Persepolis" totally unique and indispensable...
...unknown person then opened the student’s window screen and asked the resident the time, Catalano said, after which the resident left the room and immediately called HUPD...
Scribot was ranked No. 5 in the nation and was a Pac-10 singles semifinalist. She had beaten the No. 1 players from Stanford, Southern California, Washington, and California during the dual season. Bergman was an unknown commodity in comparison...
Winchester is delightfully alert to history's ironies and synchronicities. The destruction of Krakatoa occurred just as the global net of telegraph cables--the Victorian version of the Internet--was being completed, and the disaster became the world's first mass-media news sensation. "Millions of people hitherto unknown to one another," he writes, "began to involve themselves, for the first time ever, in looking beyond their hitherto limited horizons of self." Paradoxically, even as the eruption of Krakatoa pulverized an island, it united a planet. --By Lev Grossman
Details of the grand jury’s decision remain unknown because proceedings are confidential...