Complete book coverage for Oct. 25, 2009
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How Sunday services -- and child care -- gave one writer several precious, uninterrupted hours and also some guilt.
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Kristin Cashore’s ‘Fire’ and Barry Lyga’s ‘Goth Girl Rising’ tackle the difficult subjects of young women’s budding sexuality and the power of gender from engaging perspectives.
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In ‘Dreamer and Dissenter’ and ‘The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance,’ Ingar Sletten Kolloen and Monika Zagar, respectively, daringly take on the vitriolic writer.
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Although billed as a sequel, it’s not really. But what it is is a tale that pushes the story in unexpected directions while remaining true to the dark heart of the Transylvanian vampire-king.
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With the undead now firmly ensconced into the pop culture firmament, the 80 tales in this collection offer an absorbing overview of who they are and where they came from.
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Irving doubles back in this novel, going over ground he traveled before in his earlier writings, and yet the story is fresh and excellent.
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A compelling look at the biggest forest fire in American history.
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A critic’s intoxicating efforts to describe an overlooked European painter.
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In her first book of fiction, Landis explores the uncontrollable power of the girl.
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Plus: “Cherries in Winter” and “Beauty and the Soul”
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Fiction Weeks on list1.The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $25.99) Harvard professor Robert Langdon uses his symbology skills to find a missing Freemason in Washington, D.C.5 2.The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined while changing a Mississippi town. 20 3.Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby (Riverhead: $25.95) A woman acquaints herself with the songwriter whose album caused the breakup of her recent relationship.2 4.Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown : $27.99) An LAPD detective travels to Hong Kong to solve the murder of a Chinese immigrant.15.Blood’s a Rover by James Ellroy (Knopf : $28.95) A bank heist sets off an escapade through ‘60s L.A. with run-ins with the mob, the FBI and Howard Hughes. 36.South of Broad by Pat Conroy (Nan A.
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Fiction 1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ($14.95) 2.
