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January 20, 2012

Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse

By LUCAS KLAUSS
Reviewed by Amy Benfer

A romance between a young unbeliever and a dedicated churchgoer leads to new questions on both sides.

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January 16, 2012

Feng Shui: Secrets of Chinese Geomancy

By RICHARD CREIGHTMORE
Reviewed by Peter Lewis

Finding the most auspicious way to live within a place.

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January 13, 2012

Still Waters

By EMMA CARLSON BERNE
Reviewed by Amy Benfer

At a remote lake house, a mismatched couple dredges up the past.

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January 11, 2012

Come Sunday

By CHARLIE HADEN and HANK JONES
Reviewed by Steve Futterman

A collaboration between two jazz greats is a testament to musical devotion.

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January 6, 2012

The Pledge

By KIMBERLY DERTING
Reviewed by Amy Benfer

In a dystopian future, language is the key to uniting a fractured society.

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Daybook

May 20: Blue jeans celebrate their unofficial 140th birthday today, the dry goods merchant Levi Strauss and the tailor Jacob Davis receiving a patent on May 20, 1873 for "a new article of manufacture, a pair of pantaloons having the…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin. 

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The Long List
Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
My Struggle, Book Two

A controversial sensation in Norway, A Man in Love is the second book of six in the series, detailing Knausgaard’s separation from his wife, his move to Stolkholm and the dogged pursuit of a mesmerizing poet.

Minotaur

This newly reissued Cold War classic profiles an Israeli spy obsessed with an English girl half his age, and his attempts to win her love without ever revealing his true identity.

The Innocence Game

Three Chicago journalism students attend an “innocence” seminar that will teach them how to release the wrongfully accused from prison. But as innocents are jailed, a killer roams free, and the students are next on the hit list.