13 best 2011 author interviews – Noah Feldman talking about William O. Douglas – CSMonitor.com A loose young woman in Nazi-era Berlin. A titanic failure of courage on the Titanic. A Supreme Court justice with a thing for hot blondes. An American president’s scandalous love child. Book authors answered questions about these earthy topics and […]
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Healing Reads: The Year’s Five Best Books – WSJ.com. Health and medicine books tend to be long on advice and how-to, and short on compelling narrative and literary merit. But several new books this year proved to be welcome exceptions, from a lyrical history of the human heart to an absorbing tale of one of
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PW Staff: The Best Books We’ve Read This Year « PWxyz PW has already named its Best Books 0f 2011, but since readers rarely get to see the faces behind the scenes, we thought we’d let our staff share the best book they read in 2011, because deep down, we’re all just book nerds. Here
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The overlooked sci-fi of 2011 – Salon.com When compiling best-of lists at the end of the year, it’s easy to overlook certain classes of deserving books. In a year filled with massive, highly publicized releases — a new Neal Stephenson, a Vernor Vinge sequel awaited for twenty years — wonderful books with less flash can
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Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscuit: An American Legend Ballantine Books, 2001Trade paperback, 399 pagesISBN 0-449-00561-5 Recommended In Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand tells the classic American story of the underdog. A mud-colored horse with a crooked leg and not much ambition, Seabiscuit became the icon of rags-to-riches fame and accomplishment for an American population beaten down by years of the
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How the literary female detective has changed In The Christian Science Monitor Randy Dotinga says of Scottish mystery writer Denise Mina: [she] has become one of the finest mystery writers of the 21st century. Her deeply perceptive grasp on the inner lives of crooks, cops, journalists, and their families has allowed her books to transcend
Crime Fiction Lover | Category Archive | Features. I love a good mystery. If you do too, you’ll want to take a look at the top 5 mysteries as chosen by each of 4 reviewers for Crime Fiction Lover.
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Yes, the lists just keep coming. Here are 3 more from NPR: Fired Up: The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Fantasy Here are five of the best, most interesting, most mutated science fiction and fantasy novels published this year. A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of
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Steve Jobs Biography and Other Hot Titles Bookstore Lures – NYTimes.com the initial weeks of Christmas shopping, a boom time for the book business, have yielded surprisingly strong sales for many bookstores, which report that they have been lifted by an unusually vibrant selection; customers who seem undeterred by pricier titles; and new business from
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Books | Tops in crime fiction: Best mysteries of 2011 | Seattle Times Newspaper. The top 10, according to Adam Woog.
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