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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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Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins is so moved by a shipwreck that he starts writing again. >>
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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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In search of the godfather of soul >>
DARK PASSAGES
When literary figures are turned into detectives, there's great promise in the material--and little margin for error >>
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A teen fights for survival during the Siege of Leningrad. >>
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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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Two journalists meet and fall in love while covering the war in Afghanistan. >>
BESTSELLERS
Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2008 >>
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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. >>
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An examination of the fall of ancient civilizations and the likelihood that earthquakes were responsible. >>
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A mathematician shares his love of numbers, grids and graphs. >>
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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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Collected sportswritings from the legendary journalist >>
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Who had the worst wig in a movie? Which animal performance was the best? It's all here, in a provocative, satisfying book of movie lists. >>
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The first English translation of this novel by a master of French noir. >>
WORD PLAY
New books from Jeane Birdsall, Lois Lowry and others create enchanting, warm family stories that also play games with the familiar conventions of children's stories. >>
HARDBACKS
May 4, 2008 >>
BOOK REVIEW
Beset by her husband's ex and his children, a second wife finds life isn't at all what her mate promised it would be. >>
BOOK EXCERPT
'Audrey, Wait!' by Robin Benway >>
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A young man and his photographer friend retrace the final footsteps of Lazarus Averbuch, 100 years after his death. >>
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Family relationships and madness are explored by this British gothic storyteller. >>
Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2008 >>
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A biography of the haunted siblings Klaus and Erika Mann, and a novel of a high-flying childhood by Sophie Dahl. >>
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Suggesting that reading may not be so good for us after all, a writer wants us to rethink our relationship to it. >>
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When a high school girl dumps her boyfriend, he makes her infamous in song. >>
PAPERBACKS
May 4, 2008 >>
BOOK REVIEW
Want to know how to be a perfect wife or husband? It's all here in a pair of 1913 primers. >>
Fiction >>
THE SIREN'S CALL
In Lauren Groff's "The Monsters of Templeton," there's a creature in the lake, a ghost and a family secret hidden through the ages.
ALSO: Kevin Brockmeier's "The View from the Seventh Layer" >> PAPERBACK WRITERS
In 'The Summer Book' by Tove Jansson,a girl and grandmother look at life's mysteries on a tiny Finnish island.
PLUS: Books by Etgar Keret, Ada Louise Huxtable and more. >>
ESSAY
Entertainment has come to mean junk. But its definition also should include everything pleasurable that arises from an encounter with literature. >>
BOOK REVIEW
A brilliant story collection showcases Ozick's concerns about the role of literature and her affection for charlatans and mischief. >>
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A rare-book dealer stumbles on a freak show containing two dozen lost photographs by Diane Arbus. >>
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Tom Hayden reveals a more personal side in this collection of nearly 50 years of his writing on social activism. >>
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A boy comes of age in a brackish, roiling world that matches the nearby Salton Sea. >>
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The deconstruction of a celebrated series of French comic books. >>
HARDBACKS
April 27, 2008 >>
BOOK REVIEW
In Erdrich's new novel, an unsolved crime lingers over the lives and intermingling voices of several generations in a North Dakota town. >>
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One woman's story about defying the breast cancer gene. >>
Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2008 >>
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Two novels -- one set in South Boston in the divisive 1970s; the other today in a Denver bar -- and the chronicle of a divorce. >>
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A Gold Rush-era trapper drifts dreamlike through the Southwest. >>
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Two semiautobiographical novellas of rural Japanese life by the bestselling Japanese author. >>
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On a millennial path with a caribou herd in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge >>
PAPERBACKS
April 27, 2008 >>
PAPERBACKS
Fiction >>
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How the boy from a hardscrabble Texas town became a country music icon. >>
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The director's work was brash, kinky, grand and hollow at the core--an argument that can be made about the man himself, as a new biography suggests. >>
ASTRAL WEEKS
In Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother," a young hacker is caught in an Orwellian situation -- and decides to fight back. >>
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The scientific exploration of human sexuality. >>
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In a spinoff of 'The Aeneid,' a writer amplifies Virgil's myth in modern ways >>
HARDBACKS
April 20, 2008 >>
Books and authors
A Carnegie Hall memorial service offers a kaleidescope of impressions about the late great writer. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The tale of one man's quest to preserve Japan's revered Akita breed of dogs from extinction. >>
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Empathetic and keenly observed recollections by an honored novelist in the 20 years before his 2006 death. >>
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Three books on how to cope with Leben und Werk. >>
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PAPERBACKS
April 20, 2008 >>
BOOK REVIEW
A portrait of the Joker as a chilling villain resurfaces as a 1988 graphic novel is reissued in anticipation of a new Batman movie. >>
Fiction >>
The Writing Life
In 'The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces From an Active Life' and 'American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau,' the writer keeps our eyes on the argument. >>
BOOK REVIEW
'The Runner' and 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' by David Samuels present masterful essays on impostors, con men and other outtakes of American life. >>
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'The Devil Gets His Due: The Uncollected Essays of Leslie Fiedler," edited by Samuele F.S. Pardini >>
DARK PASSAGES
Two complex new mysteries explore the continent's darker side >>
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'The Age of Dreaming,' a novel by Nina Revoyr >>
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'The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama' by Pico Iyer, a portrait of a man's life and mission. >>
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'Newton' by Peter Ackroyd >>
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'Shakespeare's Wife' by Germaine Greer >>
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In 'All the Sad Young Literary Men' by Keith Gessen, a fresh crop of literary intellectuals meets the modern world. >>
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A father's abuse of one son has profound effects on the other boy and the rest of the family. >>
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The Siren's Call: Myth and Lore
There's a golem at the center of Jonathan Barnes' novel "The Somnambulist."
Plus: Books on theories of the afterlife and the Nazi occult. >> BOOK REVIEW
The author has reworked his epic trilogy about the legendary, murderous pioneer, E.J. Watson. >>
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'The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad' by John Stape >>
Word Play
Mike Lupica and Linda Sue Parks have new offerings for middle-school baseball fans. >>
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