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Short stories show a valiant effort from John Grisham
Give the king of the legal thriller credit for expanding his literary range. Today, Ford County, John Grisham's first collection ...
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'The Battle for Normandy' storms the beaches anew
Antony Beevor's Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege sold more than a million copies. His absorbing D-Day: The Battle for Normandy could ...
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Mary Karr talks about memoirs, alcohol abuse and her new 'Lit'
Mary Karr's best-selling 1995 memoir, The Liars' Club, about her rough Texas childhood with alcoholic parents, "kick-started ...
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Children's Books
Top 5 at a Glance
1. LEGO STAR WARS, by Simon Beecroft
2. JULIE ANDREWS’S COLLECTION OF POEMS, SONGS, AND LULLABIES, by Emma Walton Hamilton and Julie Andrews
3. SKIPPYJON JONES, LOST IN SPICE, by Judy Schachner
4. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, by Barb Bersche and Michelle Quint
5. LISTEN TO THE WIND, by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth
1. LEGO STAR WARS, by Simon Beecroft
2. JULIE ANDREWS’S COLLECTION OF POEMS, SONGS, AND LULLABIES, by Emma Walton Hamilton and Julie Andrews
3. SKIPPYJON JONES, LOST IN SPICE, by Judy Schachner
4. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, by Barb Bersche and Michelle Quint
5. LISTEN TO THE WIND, by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth
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Books roundup: Self-help
From workplace advice for women to the best advice for de-cluttering your home, here are four new titles that you might want ...
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Book Buzz: What's new on the list and in publishing
The story of a Harlem teen named Precious is set to hit the big screen; "pioneer" cooking is hot; and Target gives a boost to ...
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Obama's half brother recalls their abusive father in novel
President Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel, the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive ...
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TBR: Inside the List
Malcolm Gladwell’s “What the Dog Saw” enters at No. 3, while Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner land at No. 2 with “SuperFreakonomics.”
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The Dossier
Kati Marton read her parents’ secret police files to research this powerful narrative of their imprisonment in Stalinist Hungary.
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'The Humbling': Philip Roth at his rawest
Philip Roth remains prolific, unlike the main character in Roth's 30th. novel, a famous actor who has suddenly and inexplicably ...
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Wilderness Warriors
Theodore Roosevelt and his eccentric chief forester make a very odd couple in this account of the founding of the United States Forest Service.
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Brutal Terrain
This military history of the Civil War emphasizes geography’s role in shaping strategy.
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Ayn Rand’s Revenge
Anne C. Heller’s biography conveys the conviction and odd charisma of Ayn Rand, whose individualist message is still resonant for American conservatives.
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Raising the Dead
This novel’s Frankenstein hobnobs with Byron and the Shelleys.
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In the Long Run
Brief introductions to the life and theories of the economist John Maynard Keynes from Peter Clarke and Robert Skidelsky.
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