Web Exclusive Reviews: 6/29/2009 06/29/2009
This week: David Henry Sterry collects stories from sex workers, Andrew Blauner compiles the stories of brothers, and Zack Lynch recounts tales from the frontiers of neurotechnology; new memoirs from Buzz Aldrin, Jan Lancaster, Quinn Cummings and Czech ecobiologist Vojtech Novotny; a look at athletes Lance Armstrong and Michelle Wie; and fiction from Carl Reiner, Kaye Dacus, Wayne D. Overholser and Rosemary Rogers.
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Nonfiction Reviews: 6/29/2009 06/29/2009
Starred reviews for: Toby Lester's The Fourth Part of the World, John Franklin's The Wolf in the Parlor, Graham Farmelo's The Strangest Man, and The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh with Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh.
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Children's Book Reviews: 6/29/2009 06/29/2009
Reviewed this week: the latest picture book from the Emberley clan, a picture-book biography of the inventors of Day-Glo paint, new novels from Richard W. Jennings and Elizabeth Scott, as well as a round-up of concept books for younger readers.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 6/29/2009 06/29/2009
This week, reviews of new novels from James Ellroy, Jeff Lindsay, Philippa Gregory, Richard Russo and Mary B. Morrison. Plus, Dick and Felix Francis deliver another horse caper, Tilly Bagshawe channels Sidney Sheldon, senator Barbara Boxer weighs in with another Beltway thriller.
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Audio Reviews: 6/29/2009 06/29/2009
Fiction from Tatiana De Rosnay, Bret Easton Ellis, Emily Giffin, Lionel Shriver, Harlan Coben, Paulo Coelho, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, David Baldacci and more; nonfiction includes Giulia Melucci, Mike Robbins, Donald Trimp, Daniel Coyle, Bob Barker, Michael J. Fox, and Isabel Gilles.
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Men at War: PW talks with Evie Wyld by Brandon Proia - 06/29/2009
Repressed trauma trickles down through generations of Australian veterans, POWs and recluses in Evie Wyld's After the Fire, a Still Small Voice. Think Annie Proulx by way of North Queensland.
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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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August 8, 2007 From Dahl to Dahl
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