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Graphic novel of 'Fahrenheit 451' sparks Bradbury's approval
Fifty-six years after Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of Fahrenheit 451 in nine days, his science-fiction classic is being ...
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Richard Russo casts different spell with 'That Old Cape Magic'
Richard Russo's impressive crop of novels, including Empire Falls, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2002, is firmly rooted in a sense ...
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In Tropper's 'This is Where I Leave You,' it's a man's world
Usually when a relationship goes belly-up, the focus is on the emotionally gutted woman. How refreshing to see the male perspective.
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Harvard's Gates says he's able to joke about arrest
A black Harvard scholar said Sunday he has been able to joke about his arrest by a white police officer that led to a national ...
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The Gathering Storm
This novel in stories relays the intimate and desperate moments of characters in the path of Hurricane Hugo.
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Lost in Uganda
In the story of a man’s murder, the portrait of a continent.
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Into the Wild
In Ron Carlson’s elegiac thriller, a married couple on the verge of divorce makes one last journey in their beloved mountains.
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Kathryn Stockett's 'The Help' is the hot book this summer
The table at the front of Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville, Ill., is where booksellers keep the titles they reach for when customers ...
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'American Adulterer' offers compelling, clinical look at JFK
It takes a great deal of audacity and no less imagination to dissect the libidinous mind of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, but British ...
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