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Margo's picks

By MARGO HAMMOND
Published May 15, 2005

1. Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East by Clyde Prestowitz

While Thomas Friedman is celebrating that the world is flat, Prestowitz, a former Reagan administration trade official, is warning that for many on that flat road to globalization, the sky is falling.

2. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

In this jewel of a novel, several lives overlap and intersect, thanks to a lost manuscript called The History of Love dedicated to a girl named Alma.

3. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith

Mma Ramotswe, head of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana, is as irresistible in this sixth book of the series as she was in the first.

4. Hunting Unicorns: A Novel by Bella Pollen

While digging up the dirt on the British upper class, an American television journalist inadvertently falls for one of its denizens.

FLORIDA FAVORITE: A Private Family Matter: A Memoir by Victor Rivas Rivers

It's Foster Family Month, perfect timing for this riveting account of how one boy was saved by foster parents after enduring a life of domestic violence. Rivers went on to become a football player with the Florida State Seminoles and Miami Dolphins, a film actor and a spokesman in the movement to end violence against women and children. Abused by his father, Rivers begins his book with this simple sentence: "This is a story about how I was saved by love when most people considered me beyond rescue."

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