Book News, Reviews, Bestsellers lists targeted specifically for book lovers in the baby boom.
Books for Grownups: April 2008 04/15/2008
PW and AARP have teamed up again to bring you a list of Spring books just for baby boomers. From Peter Carey's new novel to fictional and nonfictional accounts of the Kenney's to a guide to not looking old, there's lots here to read as you say goodbye to winter. More
Books for Grandparents: March 2008 03/03/2008
AARP and Publishers Weekly team up once again, scouring the latest titles and helping you find just the right book for your grandchild. From a cookbook for toddlers to a book about the real John Henry, there's something here for everyone.
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Books for Grownups: January 2008 01/31/2008 PW and AARP have teamed up once again to bring you a list of books especially for boomers. These books may not keep away the winter chill, but at least they'll distract you. We've got a novel about the Rolling Stones, a how-to book about reclaiming your life from your too-busy schedule, a travel guide to happiness, and much more!
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Books for Grownups: December 2007 12/11/2007 PW and AARP have colaborated once again to bring you a list of books just for baby boomers. Here you'll find holiday gift ideas, new year's resolutions and cures for the winter blues.
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The Beat Goes On, and Business, Too by Paul Wilner - 12/03/2007
Along Columbus Avenue in San Francisco, at the nexus of North Beach and Chinatown, a bronze plaque in front of a jazz/seafood joint called the Condor reads, “Where It All Began. The Birthplace of the World’s First Topless/Bottomless Entertainment.” Down the street, a barker stands in front of another club, the Roaring Twenties, exhorting tourists to “come in for a great ...
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Books for Grownups, October 2007 10/16/2007
This month's installment of Books for Grownups, a collaboration between PW and AARP, presents another handful of great new books for boomers. There's Denis Johnson's epic Vietnam novel, Tree of Smoke, which has become something of an istant classic. In nonfiction, Anne Kreamer consideres the power of Going Grey. And, in the How-To list, there's a book that promises seven steps to Ultralongevity.
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Good Enough to Eat By Wendy Werris - 10/29/2007
“Why don’t you order for me?” I ask Michael Pollan, author of the bestselling The Omnivore’s Dilemma and the upcoming In Defense of Food, (The Penguin Press, Jan. 2008). We’re at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Alice Waters’s ode to exquisite cuisine and one of the forerunners of the whole food movement in America.
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Coming to America: A PW Profile of Ha Jin By Wendy Smith - 09/17/2007
The author of the award-winning novel Waiting and other works that have made the personal and political conflicts of people in his native China resonate with Western readers, turns his eye to the American scene in his forthcoming book A Free Life.
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