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In '1940,' Jay Neugeboren examines the roots of Hitler's hatred of Jews with a story about the family physician, who was Jewish.
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A life immersed in literature and teaching.
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'Imagine Me and You' by Billy Mernit
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An epic adventure in living green.
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A tribesman who served as a translator for U.N. observers and foreign journalists in Darfur tells his story.
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The memoir chronicles the actress and singer's days as a child star of British theater and her path to becoming Mary Poppins.
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The subtle historian excels on 20th century European intellectuals but trips in polemics on Israel.
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A father tries to bring his comic-book-loving son out of a coma.
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The columnist becomes an unlikely advocate and friend to a mentally ill homeless man who was once a musical prodigy.
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Welcome to the world of tribute bands, where competition is tough and reality and fantasy sometimes blur.
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On the failure of black public intellectuals to build on the struggles of the civil rights era and the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Film on Paper" delivers insight -- and attitude -- in this collection of book reviews about Hollywood, past and present.
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Which handles money better? A casino or Wall Street? A look at the reckless financing and political decision-making preceding the current economic crisis.
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If only teen life could be like a high school musical, but in Dunthorne's tale, everything smells like teen angst.
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The essays, reviews and short stories in this collection about Sept. 11 and terrorism are illuminating though sometimes flawed.
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Custer's allure continues in two new books about the the battle of Little Bighorn, general and his fascinating legacy.
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A successful writer's suicide triggers soul-searching in his upstate New York hometown.
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Remember "Soylent Green"? The 1966 novel on which the film was based is republished.
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The story behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo (left) of a 1976 demonstration and its impact on civil rights resistance.
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In 'The End of the World Book,' something's missing in the family encyclopedia -- and Alistair McCartney has his finger on it.
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Family secrets lie at the end of a dark, twisted path in this taut novel of intrigue and dread.
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'Button, Button: Uncanny Stories,' by Richard Matheson
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'Draining the Sea,' a novel by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
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'Screen Plays: How 25 Scripts Made It to a Theater Near You -- For Better Or Worse' by David S. Cohen
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'Venezuelan Bust, Baseball Boom: Andrés Reiner and Scouting on the New Frontier' by Milton H. Jamail
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An unflinching account of the rise of the puritanically religious Bin Laden and Saud families as the West fought the Cold War.
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Imagining a plundered, media-plagued Earth
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Anne Rice's Jesus is on the long road to Cana in the second of her 'Christ the Lord' series.
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'Water Cooler Diaries: Women Across America Share Their Day at Work' by Joni B. Cole and B.K. Rakhra
More than 500 women offer accounts of their workday, on jobs ranging from the exotic to the maddening.
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'Not the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography' by Charlotte Chandler
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In "Hollywood Crows," the novelist takes his cops into Hollywood's tumultuous, changing immigrant community.
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A bibliophile writes a love letter about his passion.
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The author and former political prisoner explores the fate of Mongolian herders and Mongolian wolves in Communist China.
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'Kat is one of those beautiful people, like Neal Cassady or Janis Joplin, who seem too good for this world, only Krazy lacks tragedy.'
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The novel visits 1960s suburbia, where an unspeakable evil lurks.
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John Lennon's lover documents the ex-Beatle's infamous 18-month "lost weekend," when he fled the celebrity merry-go-round.
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The bewildered patriarch of the Jones family confronts grief and age in "A Curious Earth," a darkly comedic novel about a London family.
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A man's search for his family's history turns up a vengeful ancestor.
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A vet turns to fight the past that dogs him
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Blurring the boundaries of science and art
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Finding tiny pieces of hope in a cruel and chaotic world
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In Laura Lippman's "Another Thing to Fall," P.I. Tess Monaghan finds babysitting a TV star annoying -- but hey, it's a living.
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Matthew Parker's book tells the epic story of the building of the Panama Canal.
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Law would encourage development of alternative energy, authors claim
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The sequel to 'Jim the Boy' is a WWII-era coming of age tale.
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What's your sexual fantasy?
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The Russian musicologist surveys Russian culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn.
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In "The Silver Swan," John Banville's latest foray as Benjamin Black, a pathologist's demons mar his search for a murderer.
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'A Bound Man' and 'Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary' consider the candidates as a black man and a woman, but offer little insight on what their presidencies would mean.
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'60 Years of Baseball in Vero Beach'
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'What the Gospels Meant' by Garry Wills
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A sugar-coated history of the United Fruit Co.'s role in Latin America.
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Writer's first novel explores revolution's timeless lessons.
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Violence, a familiar strain in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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From isolation to freedom to disappointment, Li felt the ripples of China's transition.
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'Editions & Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat,' by Nicholas A. Basbanes
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FBI Special Agent Ana Grey goes after ecoterrorists in the Pacific Northwest.
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'David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre' by Ira Nadel
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'Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World,' by Samantha Power
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A memoir of life with bipolar disease
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The tale of a lost boy in an unnamed city not unlike Los Angeles.
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Sherlock-style deducifyin' on the streets of old San Francisco
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Mount Vernon's history as a national shrine in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as told by its African American employees.
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Two views on one of the most explosively creative periods in filmmaking
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A retired photojournalist is stalked by a Croatian man, whose life was ruined after Serbs recognized the man's photo.
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She called upon the Islamic world to work toward avoiding a clash of civilizations.
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An anthology of the best writing to appear on blogs from the N.Y. Times' first Web critic.
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A mob middleman's testimony against two dirty cops was a turning point for the Mafia.
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Violence lurks beneath the calm surface of a seaside Scottish town.
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The comic book sci-fi series ends its run after five years.
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Literary comedy goes between the lines of writer's final work
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Complex noir thriller updates the Old West.
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The remarkable political life of one of California's most charming public officeholders.
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Finding and restoring the right piano becomes a love story.
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George Carlin, stand-up comedy revolutionary
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The transgendered author delivers a spirited memoir.
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Deft social realism and iffy grammar.
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The novel recasts Tom Sawyer's girlfriend as her own woman.
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Shape-shifting werewolves lurk in the streets of Los Angeles.
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Man's true nature meets market economics.
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A page-turner that focuses on the entertainment industry.
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How Islam shaped Europe from 570 to 1215 AD
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A love story founders in Japan's rigid imperial court.
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King puts another 'ordinary' guy through the wringer.
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A woman stirs up a computer programmer's long-suppressed memories.
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A history of torture
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Need first film advice? Try these directors' commentaries
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Karl Iagnemma's first novel is emotionally powerful and beautifully wrought.
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How George W. Bush fulfilled his fate.
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'Beautiful Children' by Charles Bock and 'The Delivery Man' by Joe McGinniss Jr.
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A hausfrau's lament in suburban London
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'In the Blood: A Memoir of My Childhood' by Andrew Motion
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The author of 'The Graduate' picks up Benjamin and Elaine's life story, but shouldn't have.
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'The Deportees and Other Stories' by Roddy Doyle
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An odyssey into the scars of history
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How relationships are born, live and die.
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A cool look at America's heated obsession with home
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The humorist spends a year surveying the self-help field.
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A dictionary of film criticism from the popular British guidebook series.
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How technology, economics and avarice combined in the 18th century slave trade.
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The making of South Africa.
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The novelist's second vampire book visits Gettysburg, awakening a buried, bloodthirsty army.
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The 'bard of hard living's' songwriting style evolved over time, but the music in his lyrics doesn't play on the page.
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The likelihood of discovering (and perhaps communicating with) extraterrestrial life.
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Tinseltown and environs are the setting for stories of murdered starlets and quirky detectives.
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An evocative, heartbreaking and haunting first novel about soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces.
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Gym entrepreneur anticipated the cardio fitness craze.
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Getting yourself beyond the clutches of capitalistic greed is no easy feat in today's society, but these books point the way.
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An outlaw racer pursues the cross-country land-speed record.
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His complex 11th novel depicts a relationship from multiple viewpoints.
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Exploring an urban legend
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Author, not the book's subjects, is dissected.
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Close encounters of the wild kind
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A heart-rending remembrance, delivered posthumously
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A life that might have been
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'Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, the Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound' by Paul Drummond
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'What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting,' by Marc Norman
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A new translation of the Irish literary epic by Ciaran Carson
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A talented, ambitious woman whose judgment is clouded by intense loyalty.
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The late '80s spy novel reveals the mystery writer's early days.
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Even admirers admit feeling intimidated by the feminist leader.
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Adventures in the employ of the service economy.
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'Hollywood's Censor' by Thomas Doherty
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'Rumpole Misbehaves' by John Mortimer
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Kinsey Millhone stays on top of her game.
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Sister Ria investigates a murder that has been blamed on her father.
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'The Letters of Noel Coward,' edited by Barry Day
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The story of Anna Anderson, the most famous of the Anastasia pretenders.
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An engrossing analysis of the studios' involvement in the making of movie stars in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.
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Tracing the rise and fall of a tremendously successful language.
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The true story of an international serial killer
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Slices of the mundane -- and a few anachronistic stumbles.
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The Tyson-Douglas fight: a death knell for boxing.
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The unfolding of time and relationships in death
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Jack Nicholson's bio doesn't quite peel away the Joker's mask.
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The notorious spy makes her case for innocence.
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'Blue Rage, Black Redemption' by Stanley Tookie Williams
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'Reporting Iraq,' edited by Mike Hoyt, John Palattella and the staff of the Columbia Journalism Review
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An illustrated overview of attitudes toward the conflict shows there were no sacred cows -- not even Lincoln.
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The veteran NBC reporter recalls a watershed decade.
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How a pulp novel became a film classic.
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Exploring what makes defiant artists tick.
A young Irish woman copes with the suicide of her alcoholic older brother and its effects on her family, in Enright's fourth novel, winner of this year's Man Booker Prize.
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'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,' a novel by Junot Díaz
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"Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father," by John Matteson
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26 funny, feisty women writers tell all.
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September 11: Terror and Boredom
The latest story collection from Davis “poses a series of word problems for the existentially challenged.” With loop-the-loop plots and a shrewd wit, she peers deeply into the absurdist margins of everyday life. Her stories, “for all their humor, can be irrationally terrifying, like beautifully made little boxes in which your thumbs have somehow become trapped.”
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An orphan lives by his wits in 1930s Paris.