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Books about cyberwarfare, American foreign policy, Theodore Roosevelt and the importance of the humanities.
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Crime: Mystery Novels by Nevada Barr, Colin Cotterill, Helen Grant and Matthew Dicks
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Despite the catchy title, 'The Lonely Polygamist' disappoints
Between HBO's plural family saga Big Love and David Ebershoff's positively reviewed 2008 novel The 19th Wife, polygamy sure is popular these ...
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Book Review - Churchill’s Empire - By Richard Toye
Churchill led Britain through her finest hour but, as this history shows, he had his own disturbing history of conquest, racism and brutality.
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TBR: Inside the List
Mary Roach’s jaunty exploration of space travel, “Packing for Mars,” plants its flag at No. 6 on the hardcover nonfiction list.
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Book Review - Death Is Not an Option - Stories - By Suzanne Rivecca
The women in Suzanne Rivecca’s first story collection are looking for salvation, but not the religious kind.
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Book Review - Three Stations - By Martin Cruz Smith
In Martin Cruz Smith’s seventh Russian mystery, the villains are corrupt bureaucrats and capitalists, and the hero, as ever, is Arkady Renko, investigator.
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TBR: Inside the List
Gary Shteyngart scores his first best seller with “Super Sad True Love Story,” new on the hardcover fiction list this week at No. 11.
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Stray Questions for Richard Toye
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Book Review - Everything - By Kevin Canty
Four Montana residents make terrible decisions about love in a novel filled with optimism and humanity as well as booze and heartbreak.
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Children’s Books: Tell Us We’re Home - By Marina Budhos
In this novel, the children of the privileged are observed by the sharp-eyed daughters of their nannies and housekeepers.
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Children’s Books: The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton - By Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge
How the smart, strong-willed future novelist Edith Wharton survived in upper-crust New York around 1880.
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Book Review - I Curse the River of Time - By Per Petterson
In this slender novel by the Norwegian writer Per Petterson, a lonely protagonist grapples with divorce, death and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Letters: Debating Tolstoy
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Letters: Principles of Yoga
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