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Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Review | 'Reading Jesus': A fresh and clarifying take on the Gospels

A believer takes a calm approach to the writings of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. IF YOU GO These authors will appear at Miami Book Fair International, which runs Sunday-Nov.15 at Miami Dade College, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami. Visit www.miamibookfair.com
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Review | 'Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife': Writer behind the diary

Finally, someone takes Anne Frank seriously as an author. [R](241.5)(.0)(199.5)(71.1)(.0)(.0)(.0)(.0)(.0)(.0)(.0)(.0)(.0)(.0)(.0)(.0)(.0)(.0) IF YOU GO These authors will appear at Miami Book Fair International, which runs Sunday-Nov.15 at Miami Dade
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Review | On the record: 'The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President'

Interviews with Bill Clinton yield historical perspective as well as glimpses of behind-the-scenes Washington. AURORA ARRUE / MIAMI HERALD ILLUSTRATION IF YOU GO These authors will appear at Miami Book Fair International, which runs Sunday-Nov.15 at
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Book review: It's Not What You Think

It's Not What You Think by Chris Evans is published by Harper Collins, priced £20. Chris Evans is one of those characters who's got so many famous, and infamous, moments in his past that it's no wonder he's writing two volumes of his autobiography.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:19:00 GMT

Book review: Tickling The English

Tickling The English by Dara O'Briain is published by Michael Joseph, priced £18.99. Fans of TV show Mock The Week will be familiar with Dara O'Briain's genial style
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:17:00 GMT

Book review: Magnus Fin and the Ocean Quest

Magnus Fin and the Ocean Quest by Janis Mackay is published by Floris Books, priced £5.99 Janis Mackay has been at the centre of a whirlwind of activity since it was revealed that her debut children's novel, Magnus Fin and the Ocean Quest, had won the
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:48:00 GMT

Book review: On Rumours: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done

On Rumours: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done by Cass Sunstein is published by Allen Lane, priced £16.99. In the internet age, rumours can spread quickly and devastatingly, as American legal scholar Cass Sunstein explores in
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:28:00 GMT

Book review: Dying To Be Famous and The Head Is Dead

Dying To Be Famous and The Head Is Dead, both by Tanya Landman, are published by Walker Books, priced £4.99. The kids might be a little too young for CSI, but youngsters can still enjoy the thrill of detective work through Devon-based writer Tanya
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:28:00 GMT

Book review: It's Not What You Think

It's Not What You Think by Chris Evans is published by Harper Collins, priced £20. Chris Evans is one of those characters who's got so many famous, and infamous, moments in his past that it's no wonder he's writing two volumes of his autobiography.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:28:00 GMT

Book review: The Lacuna

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver is published by Faber, priced £18.99. Born in the United States to an American father, Harrison William Shepherd is raised in the native Mexico of his mother Salome, who aspires to rise to the upper echelons of her
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:28:00 GMT

URGE TO KILL by John Lutz

John Lutz has created an interesting concept that has passed under the radar of some readers but, for fans of mystery and thriller fiction, is worth a second and third look. The concept is remarkable: take a former New York homicide detective who was
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:21:00 GMT

LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER by John Irving

John Irving’s 12th novel is a shaggy, shambling, lovable bear of a book. Inspired in part by Bob Dylan’s song “Tangled Up in Blue,� it is vintage Irving, stuffed to overflowing with a cast of memorable characters, dark humor, a surfeit of tragedy
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:21:00 GMT

TRUE BLUE by David Baldacci

Bestselling author David Baldacci introduces a slew of new characters in his latest thriller, TRUE BLUE. This stand-alone effort is based in Washington, D.C. and intertwines its plot around local law enforcement, corporate and criminal attorneys, and
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:21:00 GMT

ANGEL TIME: The Songs of the Seraphim, by Anne Rice

When Toby O’Dare’s mother, brother and sister all die on the same day, the young man experienced more misery in that one day than most of us will in our entire lives. That day, Toby walked away from all he had ever known and left behind everything
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:21:00 GMT

ABANDONED by Cody McFadyen

One of the staples of thriller literature is the deranged killer. The more imaginative authors are able to use these madmen to take their readers by the hand and nudge them to varying degrees in the direction of the abyss of madness. In some cases,
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:21:00 GMT

Book Review: 'Louis D. Brandeis' by Melvin I. Urofsky

Louis D. Brandeis A Life By Melvin I. Urofsky Pantheon. 953 pp. $40 Louis Brandeis is revered as a Supreme Court justice who, dissenting on his own and with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., greatly increased Americans' sensitivity to individual
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 09:53:00 GMT

Book Review: 'Anne Frank' by Francine Prose

Among the thousands of stories written about World War II and the fate of the Jews, none is more widely known, or more cherished, than that of Anne Frank. "The Diary of a Young Girl," first published in Dutch in 1947 as "Het Achterhuis" and since
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 09:53:00 GMT

Book Review: 'Open' by Andre Agassi

Pro tennis could teach the mafia about omert� . Although dozens of champions have chattered away to ghostwriters, their memoirs have generally remained silent about the game's seamy realities. Presented to the public as clean family fun, an upscale
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 09:53:00 GMT

Book Review: Fergus Bordewich's 'On Hallowed Ground'

In the folds of its hills on the Virginia shore of the Potomac, where its vast array of white tombstones evokes the mesmerizing image of an assembled army in its last resting place, Arlington National Cemetery splendidly honors the generations of
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 09:53:00 GMT

Liberating Passion: A Book Review for Bookpleasures.com

Liberating Passion: How The World´s Best Global Leaders Produce Winning Results Wiley and Sons Publishing, ISBN 978-0-470823-13-2 Non-Fiction-business, leadership 200 pages Reviewer-Michelle Kaye Malsbury, BSBM, MM Review Omar Kahn, author of Liberating
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 09:35:00 GMT

Stephen Kings Glass

When an enormous transparent dome settles over a small town in Maine in Stephen King’s new novel, it’s just fine with Big Jim, the local tyrant-in-waiting, and his pet goon squad.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:15:00 GMT

The Critics Critic

A valuable new biography of Samuel Johnson, the most eminent of all literary critics.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:15:00 GMT

Barbara Kingsolvers Artists and Idols

This novel, about a boy’s consequential bonds with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky, is a call to conscience and connection.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:15:00 GMT

Animal Planet

Amy Gerstler’s poems — skillful in every kind of comedy, yet deeply serious — show a fondness for animals without sentimentalizing them.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:15:00 GMT

Happy Days

An argument that can-do optimism has hardened into a suffocating force that bears little relation to genuine happiness.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:15:00 GMT

Harry Patch: the reluctant hero

In an exclusive extract from his new biography, Peter Parker charts the remarkable life of Britain's last World War One veteran, Harry Patch. Pte HJ Patch, number 29295, C Company, 7th Battalion, Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry, took his place within
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT

Book Review: "Scared Silent" By Mildred Muhammad

Mildred Muhammad, the former wife of convicted 'D.C. Sniper' John Muhammad, knew her husband had come undone since his return from the Gulf War, but no one ever took her seriously - even after he took off with their three children. Everyone knew John to
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:56:00 GMT

Book Review: The Longevity Factor by Joseph Maroon, M.D.

In the 1930s, Clive McCay, a nutritional scientist at Cornell University in New York, was a pioneer in proving the link between calorie restriction and longevity. Since then, hundreds of studies have proven the link -- studies on not only mice, rats, and
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:39:00 GMT

BOOK REVIEW: Exceptions or trends? -by Saleem H Ali

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide By Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunnKnopf; New York Half the Sky will be a difficult book for Pakistanis to read because it turns a mirror on some of the most detestable practices
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:35:00 GMT

Book Review: The Museum of Innocence, by Orhan Pamuk

By Orhan Pamuk Translated by Maureen Freely Knopf 560 pp.; $34.95 By Randy Boyagoda Poe, Dostoevsky, Conrad and Henry James, among others, made wonderful use of unreliable narrators, literary figures whose very efforts to tell their stories expose their
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:34:00 GMT