Web Excluisve Book Reviews: 11/23/2009 11/23/2009
This week: starred reviews of Chinua Achebe, Joris Luyendijk, Kelli and Peter Bronski, and Michael Forsberg, et al. Plus: archeologist John Major Jenkins on 2012, Carnival Cruise Lines CEO Shari Arison on spirtuality, Art Chansky on three UNC coaches, internist Richard S. Klein on the malpractice "pandemic," and a Frenchman on sex in its unnatural habitat.
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PW Talks with Elizabeth Noble by Cathy Burke - 11/23/2009
Brit transplant Elizabeth Noble imagines what goes on behind the closed doors of an Upper East Side apartment building in The Girl Next Door.
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Children's Book Reviews: 11/23/2009 11/23/2009
This week's children's book reviews include new picture books from Max Lucado, Michael Ian Black and Peter Brown, and Jonah Winter and Edel Rodriguez; new fiction from Margaret Peterson Haddix, Lauren Kate, Carolyn Mackler, and Kevin Brooks; and round-ups of some significant reissues and some children's book arriving from foreign shores.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 11/23/2009 11/23/2009
Reviewed this week, novels by Roberto Bolaño, Jasper Fforde, André Aciman, Daniel Suarez, and Bill Guttentag. Plus, television writer Jeffrey Stepakoff makes his fiction debut, Paula Reed fashions a Scarlet Letter sequel, and more. More
Web Exclusive Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 11/16/2009
This week: stars for a look at Fidel Castro by Ann Louise Bardach, Todd McLeish basking with endangered New England sea creatures, a fresh look at problem solving from Ian Mitroff and Abraham Silvers, trial lawyer Terrence Mix on fertility drugs, a women's career guide by Linda Tarr-Whelan, and more. Plus new books on Molly Ivins, Paulo Coelho, Georgia O'Keefe, George Carlin, dogs, death and sex.
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Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey, Contributing Editor, Publishers Weekly November 18, 2008 WW Ladies Book Club Blurbs
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