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Little girl lost solves crimes in 'The Hangman's Bag'

USAToday Books - Wed, 05/19/2010 - 7:21pm
Alan Bradley has created a spunky, 11-year-old British heroine.


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'Last Call': A not-so-dry history of Prohibition

USAToday Books - Wed, 05/19/2010 - 7:17pm
Daniel Okrent plunges readers deep into an era when alcohol was illegal and speakeasy was the word.


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Memoirs roundup: Four titles about losses

USAToday Books - Wed, 05/19/2010 - 6:23pm
Memoirs about job loss, paraplegia, insomnia and the thug life.


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J.G. Farrell's 'Troubles' wins 'lost' Booker Prize

USAToday Books - Wed, 05/19/2010 - 12:33pm
A tragicomic historical novel about the relationship between Britain and Ireland won literature's prestigious Booker Prize on Wednesday, four ...


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Demi Moore meets with NYC publishers about memoir

USAToday Books - Tue, 05/18/2010 - 6:23am
Demi Moore wants to tell her story. Moore's agent, Luke Janklow, confirmed Monday that the actress is working on a memoir and is meeting with ...


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Demi Moore meets with NYC publishers about memoir

USAToday Books - Mon, 05/17/2010 - 5:43pm
Demi Moore wants to tell her story.


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'Irene Nemirovsky': A biography woven from diaries, archives

USAToday Books - Mon, 05/17/2010 - 12:35pm
New biography about the author of 'Suite Francaise' emerges from diaries and archival material.


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'Irene Nemirovsky': A biography woven from diaries, archives

USAToday Books - Mon, 05/17/2010 - 12:35pm
New biography about the author of 'Suite Francaise' emerges from diaries and archival material.


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New films move the Brontes back into the Hollywood frame

USAToday Books - Mon, 05/17/2010 - 10:41am
The intense emotions inspired by these classic works of English literature have long been a Hollywood staple, and now they're making a comeb ...


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New films move the Brontes back into the Hollywood frame

USAToday Books - Mon, 05/17/2010 - 10:41am
The intense emotions inspired by these classic works of English literature have long been a Hollywood staple, and now they're ...


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Innocent - By Scott Turow

New York Times Book Reviews - Sun, 05/16/2010 - 5:44pm
Exercising a crafty fascination for the intricacies of repetitive behavior, Scott Turow brings back Rusty Sabich, now a judge and on trial again, 23 years after “Presumed Innocent.”

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TBR: Inside the List

New York Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/14/2010 - 10:14pm
Nine months after Justin Halpern started a Twitter feed that we’ll call “Stuff My Dad Says,” he has a book on the nonfiction list and a deal for a sitcom starring William Shatner.

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Book Review - The Dead Republic - By Roddy Doyle

New York Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/14/2010 - 3:35pm
Roddy Doyle concludes his trilogy of Henry Smart novels with the hero’s return to Ireland.

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Up Front: Anthony Julius

New York Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/14/2010 - 2:57pm
If a public intellectual is someone who can discourse knowledgeably on a wide variety of subjects, then Anthony Julius is surely one of England’s leading public intellectuals.

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Book Review - A Measureless Peril - By Richard Snow

New York Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/14/2010 - 2:50pm
How the Allies wrested control of an ocean from Nazi U-boats.

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Book Review - Operation Mincemeat - By Ben Macintyre

New York Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/14/2010 - 2:47pm
A nonfiction spy tale about the British ruse that employed a corpse to cover up the invasion of Sicily.

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Letters: Open-Ended

New York Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/14/2010 - 2:46pm
Letter in response to Jean Thompson’s review of “The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg.”

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Letters: ‘The Imperfectionists’

New York Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/14/2010 - 2:41pm
Letters in response to Christopher Buckley’s review of “The Imperfectionists.”

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Letters: Fighting Words

New York Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/14/2010 - 2:40pm
Letter in response to Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s review of “Winston’s War.”

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Letters: A Call to Action

New York Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/14/2010 - 2:38pm
Letters in response to Josef Joffe’s critique of Tony Judt’s “Ill Fares the Land.”

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