Sunday Books: coverage for April 10, 2011
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‘Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of “Battles and Leaders of the Civil War”’ and ‘The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It’ are recommended to readers who want to hear and feel the immediacy of the Civil War as experienced by its participants.
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The writer, a designer of magical illusions, wants to restore Howard Thurston’s memory but has few narrative tricks up his sleeve.
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In this young-adult novel, Nigerian American girl teams with other tweens in West Africa to use supernatural powers to stop a serial killer.
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What the historian saw indicated a continued fascination with monsters humans used to believe were real. And that got her thinking.
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In his latest, Jim Shepard leads his characters — and his readers — right up to the point of obliteration, leaving us exhilarated and despairing at once.
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Holocaust survivor H.G. Adler depicts the world of German and Austrian Jews before the Nazis came to power in his stirring novel.
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A novel about a friend of Vincent van Gogh’s.
