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CARRYING THE FIRE By Michael Collins For age 11 and older You probably know that Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon. While Armstrong was taking his "one small step" (along with fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin), a third astronaut, Michael Collins,...(more)
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Cheryl Jarvis’s inspirational-bling book answers the question: What if 13 women split the cost of a diamond necklace and set up a system for sharing it?
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TURKMENISCAM How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship By Ken Silverstein Random House. 197 pp. $24 It isn't easy being a lobbyist these days. Even though most people probably can't name a single lobbyist -- besides maybe the infamous Jack Abramoff --...(more)
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SECOND VIOLIN By John Lawton Atlantic Monthly. 419 pp. $24 This is the sixth installment of John Lawton's admirable series about Inspector Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard, but it's the earliest story chronologically. Two other novels are set during World War II, and later ones...(more)
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In “Gone Tomorrow,” a sharply observed yet tender novel of academic life and its many sand traps, P. F. Kluge describes the dangers that a writer-teacher faces.
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For nearly 40 years, Armand Mednick has controlled the story. He'd tell it over and over, three times a year, before vacations at Oak Lane Day School, where he teaches art.
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Some real-life figures walk straight into the history books. Sixteen years after he was freed from death row, Jay C. Smith has tried to write his way out of a true-crime best-seller.
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ZIEGFELD The Man Who Invented Show Business By Ethan Mordden St. Martin's. 335 pp. $32.95 "Flo liked his erotica neat and fulfilled, not coy and gibbering," Ethan Mordden writes close to the beginning of this engaging, often gnomic, information-packed biography of Florenz Ziegfeld. Further on,...(more)
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At the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Manil Suri is a professor of math. In either a testament to the work or a gesture of humility, he notes on his academic Web site, "This is the only job I've ever had." It's true only if...(more)
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BAGHDAD AT SUNRISE A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq By Peter R. Mansoor Yale University. 376 pp. $28 In early summer 2003, more than two decades into his Army career, the top-ranked officer from West Point's Class of 1982 went to war for the first...(more)
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Roberto Bolaño’s five-part posthumous magnum opus is grounded in the real chronicle of unsolved sex crimes in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, with hundreds of women dead and the identities of their killers still unclear.
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