Complete book coverage for March 7, 2010
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The idyllic environment of school life in Carol Goodman’s ‘Arcadia Falls’ is undercut by secrets of the most threatening kind.
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With publisher publicity departments backing away from traditional author tours, writers are left to their own devices (and strangers’ couches).
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Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney were fun-loving souls who married only to die soon after.
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In his media manifesto, a fed-up author makes a case for reality.
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A poignant memoir of how grandparents fill the gap left when their daughter dies.
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A Japanese novelist tries to understand why his longtime filmmaker friend committed suicide, raising issues of art, postwar identity and Japan’s coexistence with nationalism.
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Must everything be turned into pop cultural slogans? the poet asks in his new collection.
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Also reviewed: ‘The Man Who Ate His Boots’ by Anthony Brandt; ‘The Hollywood Economist’ by Edward Jay Epstein; ‘Dreams in a Time of War’ by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
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Fiction Weeks on list1.The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined as they change a Mississippi town. 39 2.The Man From Beijing by Henning Mankell (Knopf: $25.95) A transcontinental search is under way for the truth behind a massacre in a Swedish village. 1 3.The Postmistress by Sarah Blake (Putnam: $25.95) An American radio reporter links a small Cape Cod village with war-torn Europe.1 4.Worst Case by James Patterson (Little, Brown: $27.99) A kidnapper snatches the son of a wealthy N.Y. family playing a game of Q & A to determine the outcome.35.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. 276.Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Henry Holt: $27) The rise of Henry VIII’s advisor Thomas Cromwell. 167.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney (Amulet: $13.95) Greg desires to spend summer vacation indoors despite his mother’s wishes for outdoor family fun. 158.The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan (Disney Hyperion: $17.99) Percy Jackson and his army of demigods battle to stop the Lord of Time. 159.Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich (Harper: $25.99) A woman struggles to understand and quite possibly escape her loveless marriage to a downtrodden painter. 3 10.The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R.
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Fiction 1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ($14.95) 2.
