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  Book review: Bill Streever's Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

  Early in his captivating book, Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places, author Bill Streev...

  Vol. 23 No. 38 Published 11.17.09 by John Grooms
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  Book buying in the Great Recession

  Welcome to a session of Great Recession book buying. Nowadays, new hardback books, let's just sa...

  Vol. 23 No. 36 Published 11.03.09 by John Grooms
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  Review of American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson

  Craig Ferguson, the host of The Late Late Show on CBS, is a recovering alcoholic, workaholic, smarta...

  Vol. 23 No. 34 Published 10.20.09 by John Grooms
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  Book review: Of Mule and Man by Mike Farrell

  Actor Mike Farrell, who played B.J. Hunnicutt in the TV show M*A*S*H, is part of a group that conser...

  Vol. 23 No. 32 Published 10.06.09 by John Grooms
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  Book review: Parlous Angels by Ed Southern

  Ed Southern's book of short stories, Parlous Angels, is enthralling, which, hopefully, means it...

  Vol. 23 No. 32 Published 10.06.09 by John Grooms
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  Book Review: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters

  If you thought Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was a ridiculous idea, then go ahead and skip to the...

  Vol. 23 No. 30 Published 09.22.09 by John Grooms
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  Book Review: The Blue Star by Tony Early

  Back Bay has republished Tony Earley's 2008 novel, and I'm wondering why. His sequel to Jim...

  Vol. 23 No. 30 Published 09.22.09 by John Grooms
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  Dave Eggers's Zeitoun delivers a Katrina story for the ages

  Dave Eggers can apparently do it all. He blew away critics in 2000 with his big, bells-whistles-and-...

  Vol. 23 No. 28 Published 09.08.09 by John Grooms
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  New paperbacks on parade

  At 224 pages, Breath is a relatively short novel, at least for these days when literary doorstops ar...

  Vol. 23 No. 25 Published 08.18.09 by John Grooms
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  Book review: The Attack on the Liberty by James Scott

  Subtitled The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship, and written by Ch...

  Vol. 23 No. 22 Published 07.28.09 by John Grooms
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  Beach books for the smart set

  In our continuing effort to let you know about great beach books that are smart and engaging -- in o...

  Vol. 23 No. 20 Published 07.14.09 by John Grooms
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  Book review: K Blows Top by Peter Carlson

  In 1959, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the United States for nearly two weeks, the t...

  Vol. 23 No. 18 Published 06.30.09 by John Grooms
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  Book Review: I'm Down by Mishna Wolff

  So you think you felt out of place while you were growing up? Read Mishna Wolff's memoir, I'...

  Vol. 23 No. 16 Published 06.16.09 by John Grooms
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  Book Review: Love and Obstacles by Aleksander Hemon

  Hemon's novel The Lazarus Project was one of the best books of 2008, a vivid tale of an East Eur...

  Vol. 23 No. 16 Published 06.16.09 by John Grooms
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  CL's hot weather book picks

  Smart summer lit

  Vol. 23 No. 12 Published 05.19.09 by John Grooms
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  Book Review: Harvey Pekar's The Beats

  Harvey Pekar, graphic novel writer of American Splendor fame, is the star name on this graphic histo...

  Vol. 23 No. 10 Published 05.05.09 by John Grooms
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  Book Review: Cheeni Rao's In Hanuman's Hands

  Just when you thought the memoir genre had been exhausted, here comes In Hanuman's Hands, an ing...

  Vol. 23 No. 10 Published 05.05.09 by John Grooms
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  Baseball books for the ages

  It's spring, and somewhere, someone is oiling up an old baseball glove and getting limbered up f...

  Vol. 23 No. 6 Published 04.07.09 by John Grooms
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  Book Review: Melody Petersen's Our Daily Meds

  New York Times reporter Melody Petersen's deeply researched, eloquent indictment of the pharmace...

  Vol. 23 No. 4 Published 03.24.09 by John Grooms
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  Book Review: Samantha Hunt's The Invention of Everything Else

  Kind of like a dream of a roller-coaster ride, Hunt's novel is a surreal mishmash that somehow s...

  Vol. 23 No. 4 Published 03.24.09 by John Grooms

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