Complete book coverage for Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009
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A writer gets lost in a nonfiction no man’s land.
Aug. 23, 2009
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Everything old is new again, as illustrated by new takes on the familiar stories of Aesop, Chicken Little and Disney.
Aug. 23, 2009
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With his most recent book, ‘Strength in What Remains,’ he helps the reader walk in the subject’s shoes.
Aug. 23, 2009
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A chilling exploration of the American myth of self-reinvention, told through three isolated lives.
Aug. 23, 2009
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An Irish lad’s misadventures with his school pal take the focus off the only compelling character in the novel -- the boy’s ill-fated mother.
Aug. 23, 2009
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L. Frank Baum’s magical land was located at the end of a long road of hard knocks and lessons.
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Musician and historian Ned Sublette couldn’t say no to a Tulane University fellowship that brought him and his wife to New Orleans from 2004 to 2005.
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A graphic novel captures the storm and its aftermath.
Aug. 23, 2009
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Editors’ note: Five essential reads take unexpected angles on the 2005 storm and its disastrous aftermath.
Aug. 23, 2009
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Drawing for Architecture Léon Krier Foreword by James Howard Kunstler The MIT Press: 232 pp., $24.95 These ideograms and doodles, writes architect Léon Krier, came to him in short “angry bursts.”
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Fiction Weeks on list1.Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press: $27.95) Noir meets ‘60s Southern California groovy in a private eye’s psychedelic quest. 2 2.The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (Knopf: $25.95) A hacker, implicated in two murders, must revisit her past to prove her innocence. 3 3.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. 11 4.That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo (Knopf : $25.95) A Cape Cod wedding spurs a middle-aged man to reflect on his past, marriage, family and what the future holds.15.Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death.576.The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Doubleday: $26.95) A novelist in 1920s Barcelona takes a dangerous writing assignment.87.Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (Random House: $25) Two sisters from Shanghai encounter tragedy and heartbreak as they are sold into arranged marriages in 1930s Los Angeles. 108.Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner (Atria: $26.99) Two childhood friends on the outs since high school reconnect when one is in trouble.49.The Defector by Daniel Silva (Putnam: $26.95) The disappearance of a Russian defector puts Gabriel Allon in pursuit of a deadly arms dealer.4 10.Rain Gods by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster: $25.99) The sheriff of a tiny Texas town investigates the mass murder of illegal immigrants on the Mexican border.3 11.Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $22.99) The final book in the “Twilight” saga finds Bella choosing immortality.54 12.The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan (Disney Hyperion: $17.99) Percy Jackson and his army of demigods battle to stop the Lord of Time. 10 13.Little Bee by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster: $24) The lives of two married British journalists and a Nigerian teenager collide.12 14.Bad Moon Rising by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St.
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Fiction 1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ($14.95) 2.
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