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Sunday Book Review, May 11, 2008
COVER REVIEW: In "Exiles," Ron Hansen meditates on commitment, faith and art in the lives of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (above) and the nuns lost in a tragic shipwreck. Reviewed by Minna Proctor
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Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins is so moved by a shipwreck that he starts writing again.
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The sensational story of architect Stanford White's murder and the alluring young woman who was its catalyst receives its best telling in this book.
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Two journalists meet and fall in love while covering the war in Afghanistan.
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In search of the godfather of soul
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The longtime television journalist has selected his talks on the state of America's system of government.
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A teen fights for survival during the Siege of Leningrad.
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A mathematician shares his love of numbers, grids and graphs.
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The Story of a Marriage
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The destruction of Lisbon by a major earthquake in 1755 and its repercussions in Enlightenment Europe.
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An examination of the fall of ancient civilizations and the likelihood that earthquakes were responsible.
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A psychiatrist tormented by his autistic sister's death embarks on what could be a healing romance.
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The inclusion of unorthodox symbolism in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling
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Guy de Maupassant, Vladimir Mayakovsky and two new books -- Frances Richey's remembrance of her soldier son and a treatise on boat-building by Lawrence Cheek.
Fiction
Calendar of literary events
Southland readings and book signings