Sunday Book Review for June 22, 2008
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How the widows of three men killed in an Air Force plane crash were denied information, a decent settlement and emotional closure when the U.S. government exercised its ‘state secrets’ privilege.
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The tiny Welsh town attracts top authors to Britain’s biggest literary celebration
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The life and times of legendary surfer Miki Dora
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Enter here into the hermit world of Steve Ditko
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An author disappears, leaving her mathematician lover 351 books as clues in this intellectual thriller.
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The visit to a Florida strip club by a jihadi in the days before Sept. 11 results in the kidnapping of a 3-year-old girl.
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The British author’s experimental novel is made up of sections that can be changed at random so that no two readings are the same.
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The travails of a ‘paper son’ in the 1950s Chinese immigrant community of San Francisco.
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A senator’s mistake costs him the Democratic presidential nomination and leaves his supporters morally compromised in this ambitious novel.
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Verse by the poet-mother of rock ‘n’ roll.
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African children, French artists’ models and Russian comestibles
